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Caprimulgid^e, 



5. # PoDARGUS MARMORATUS (juv. ?). 



Podargus marmoratus, Gould, B. of Austr. Suppl. pt. ii. 



6. *ZEgotheles wallacii, G. R. Gr. 



Black, reticulated and blotched with white, especially on the 

 wing-coverts ; the front and crown of head blotched with rufous-white ; 

 tail black, with narrow and irregular reticulated bands of white ; be- 

 neath the body rufous white, darker on the front of throat and 

 breast, reticulated and blotched with black ; mentum rufous white ; 

 upper mandible black, and lower mandible white. 



Length 8", wings 4" 9"'. 



7. *Caprimulgus macrurtjs, Gould. 



HlRUNDINIDiE. 



8. HlRUNDO FRONTALIS. Q. & G. 



CORACIAD^E. 



9. *Eurystomus pacificus (Lath.). 



Alcedinid^;. 



10. *Dacelo gaudichaudi (Q. & G.). 



11. Dacelo macrorhinus, Less. 



12. *Halcyon albicilla, Less. 



13. # Halcyon sanctus, Vig. & Horsf. 



14. Tanysiptera GALATEA, G. R. Gr. 

 Alcedo dea, Less. Voy. Coq. i. 697 (juv.). 



Tanysiptera dea, Vigors, Linn. Trans, xiv. 433 ; G. R. Gr. Cat. 

 Mamm. & Birds of N. G. p. 20. 



<5 . Black, tinged with deep blue : front, crown of head, inner 

 border of shoulder, and lesser wing-coverts, verditer blue ; beneath 

 the body and rump white, slightly tinged with rufous ; lateral fea- 

 thers of tail white, margined outwards with cobalt blue ; middle tail- 

 feathers slightly narrowing towards the tips (which are of a broad 

 spatulate shape), and of a silvery blue, with the inner margin slightly 

 bordered with white ; bill red. 

 Length 15", wings 4" 3'". 



This bird is at once distinguished from the type of Linnseus's 

 Alcedo dea by the formation of the two middle tail-feathers. In 

 the type these feathers are broad at their bases for a short distance, 

 and then suddenly narrowed for a space towards the broad spatula- 

 shaped terminations, as is distinctly shown in all the old figures (Seba, 

 i. t. 46. f. 3 ; Briss. Orn. iv. t. 40. f. 2 ; PL Enl. 1 16). 



