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NEW GUINEA KINGFISHER. 



genus A'cedo some species of the Bittern tribe. 

 The building on trees seems not to accord with 

 the general manners of the Kingfisher genus. 



NEW GUINEA KINGFISHER. ' 



A. Novae Guinese. A. nigra, supra maculis albis rotundatis, sub' 

 tus elongatis; collo utrinque maculis duabus majoribus. 



Black Kingfisher, marked above with round, and beneath with 

 lengthened white spots ; the neck marked on each side by two 

 larger spots. 



Alcedo Novae Guine«e. A. nigra albo maculata. Lin, Gmel, 

 Martin-p^cheur de la nouvelle Guin^e. Sonmr. voy, pi. lOJ. 

 New-Guinea Kingfisher. Lath. syn. 



Described by Sonnerat. Size equal to that of 

 the Egyptian Kingfisher: bill and irides blackish: 

 whole plumage black, spotted or marked with 

 white, the spots being of an irregular figure: the 

 head, neck, and wing-coverts marked with small 

 round spots: the quill-feathers and tail similar, 

 but the spots twice the size: breast and belly 

 marked with longitudinal white spots, each fea- 

 ther having a stripe down the middle: on each 

 side the neck two large white spots, one above 

 the other; the intervening space being narrow, 

 and spotted like the rest of the neck: the upper 

 spot is pear-shaped, with the point upwards, and 

 somewhat obhque; the lower spot round: the legs 

 are blackish. This species is a native of. New 

 Guinea. 



