﻿DACELO GAUDICHAUDI. 



(GAUDICHAUD'S KINGFISHER.) 



Dacelo Gaudichaud 



„ Gaudichaudii 

 Cho ucalcyon Gaudichadii 

 Moncushalcyon Gaudichaudii 

 Sauromarptis Gaudichaudi 



Quoy et Gaim. Yoy. de l'Uran. p. 112, pi. 15 (1824). " 



Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, I. p. 78 (c. 1844;. 

 Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 248 (1831). 



Eeich. Handb. Alced. p. 37, t. ccccxxv, fig. 3156 (1851). 

 Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 164 (1860). 

 Mankinetrous and Mangrogone, of the Papuan natives (Quoy and Gaimard). 

 Salba, of the natives of Guebe, (Quoy and Gaimard). 



D. scapularibus et intsrscapulio nigerrimis : sexibus differentibus, mari a cauda ccerulea, femina a Cauda 

 rufo-brunnea distinguendo : pileo cum genis et regione parotica nigris : torque cervicali lseto ochracea : pectore 

 castaneo. 



Hob. in Nova Guinea, et in insulis adjacentibus. 



Male. — Crown of the head, cheeks, ear-coverts, upper part of the back and scapu- 

 laries deep black, in very old birds a few of the feathers narrowly edged with bright blue ; 

 a patch of feathers along the base of the upper mandible, a stripe behind the eye, and a 

 collar round the neck ochre; a spot on the occiput, white ; wing- coverts black, washed 

 with bright cobalt; wing-feathers blackish, the inner-web light ochre from the base, the 

 outer web edged with deep indigo, more especially on the secondaries; lower part of the 

 back and upper tail-covert bright silvery blue ; tail deep indigo above, black underneath ; 

 throat pure white; sides of the neck and under wing-coverts white tinged with light ochre ; 

 the rest of the under-surface of the body deep chesnut; bill light yellow, the upper man- 

 dible tinged with black; feet black. Total length 11.8 inches, of bill from front 1.8, from 

 gape 2.7, wing 5.3, tail, 4, tarsus 0.09, middle toe 0.9, hind toe 0.5. 



Female. — Similar to the male, but having the colours not quite so bright, and the tail 

 reddish- brown. 



Additional references. — Dacelu Gaudichaudi, Miillcr, Verb, Ethn. p. 22 (1839), Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 52 (1848), Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 154 (1850), Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 14 (1852), Sclater, Proe. 

 Lin. Soc. II, p. 155 (1858), Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 171, id. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 154, id. P. Z. S 1861, p. 433, Schl. 

 Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 20 (1863), id. Vog. Ned. Ind. pp. 13, 49, pi. 4 (1864), Bosenb. Journ. f. Orn. 

 1864, p. 118. Choucalcyon Gaudichavdi, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 9 (1854). 



