Order ALCEDINIF0RME8. Family ALCEDINIDM. 
No. 384. 
ALCYONE AZUREA. 
BLUE KINGFISHER. 
(Plate 332.) * 
Alcedo AZUREA Latham, Index Ornith. SuppL, p. xxxii., 1801; “In Insula Norfolk” 
errore = New South Wales. 
Azure Kingfisher Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 372, 1801. 
Alcedo azurea Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxxii., 1801 ; Swainson, Zool. Ulus., 
1st Series, pi. 26, 1820. 
Alcedo tribrachys Shaw and Nodder, Naturalists’ Miscellany, Vol. XVI., pi. 681, 1805 : 
New South Wales. 
Ceyx tribrachys Cuvier, Regne Animal, Vol. I., p. 417, 1816. 
Ceyx azurea Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. 2, p. 106, 1826; Vigors and 
Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 208, 1827 ; .Jardine and Selby, 
lUus. Ornith., Vol. ii., pi. 55, 1828. 
Ceyx cyanea Lesson, Traite d’Ornith., p. 241, September, 1830 : “ Timor ” errore = New 
South Wales. 
Alcedo tridactyla Lesson, ih., error pro tribrachys. 
Alcyone australis Swainson, Classif. Birds, Vol. II., p. 336, 1837 : New South Wales. 
Alcyone azurea Ewing, Tasm. Joum. Sci. Arts, Vol. I., j>. 56, 1842 (Tas.) ; Gould, Birds 
Austr., pt. xix. (Vol. II., pi. 26), 1845; Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 158, 
1850; Cassin, Cat. Hale. Philad. Mus., p. 6, 1852; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. 
L, p. 139, 1865; Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1869, p. 356; id., Monagr. Alced., 
p. 41, pi. 13, 1870 ; Ramsay, Proc. Limi. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 179, 1878 ; North, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. n., Vol. ii., p. 1163, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 40, 1890 ; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XVII., p. 168, 1892 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Picarise, p. 17, 
1894 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 56, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 547, 1901 ; A. G. CampbeU, Emu, Vol. II., p. 16, 1902 (Vic.) ; H. E. Hill, 
ib., p. 162, 1903 (Vic.) ; Batey, ib., Vol. VII., p. 11, 1907 (Vic.) ; G. F. Hill, ib., 
p. 21 (Vic.) ; Austin, ib., Vol. VII., p. 74, 1907 (N.S.W.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral, p. 53, 1908; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 353, 1909; 
Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 80, 1910 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 235, 1910 
(N.Q.) ; Cheney, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 207, 1915 (Vic.). 
* The plate is lettered Alcyone alieteri. 
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