Order A LG EDI N I FOR MBS. Family DACELONIDJE. 
No. 387. 
DACELO GIGAS. 
BROWN KINGFISHER (LAUGHING JACKASS). 
(Pt.ate 335.) 
Alcedo GIGAS Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enlura., p. 40, 1783 : “ New South Wales.” 
? Grand Martin-pecheur de la Nouvelle Guinee Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. Guin., p. 171, pi. 106, 
1776. 
Martin Pecheur de la NouveUe Guinee Daubenton, Plan. Enlum., Vol. VITI., pi. 663 
(? 1778-80). 
Le plus grand Martin-pecheur Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., Vol. VII., p. 181, 1780. 
Great Brown Kingfisher Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Vol. II., p. 609, 1782 (part) ; 
PhiUips, Voy, Botany Bay, pi. opp. p. 287, 1789; White, Journ. Voy. N.S.W., 
pi. opp. p. 137, 1790 ; Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 143, 1801 ; 
id., Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. IV., p. 9, 1822. 
Alcedo gigas Boddaert, Tabl. Plan. Enlum., jj. 40, 1783. 
? Alceds undulata Scopoh, Del Plor. et Faun. Insub., pt. ii., p. 90, 1786 ; based on 
Somierat. 
Alcedo fvrsca (not of Boddaert 1783) Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 454, 1788 (part) : based on 
Latham. 
Alcedo gigantea Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. I., p. 245, 1790 (part) ; based on Latham ante. 
Dacelo gigantea Leach, Zool. Miscell., Vol. II., pi. cvi., p. 125, 1815 ; Vigors and Horsfield, 
Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 204, 1827 ; Gk)uld, Birds Austr., pt. xv. 
(Vol. II., pi. 18), 1844; Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 153, 1850; Higgles, 
Oniith. Austr., pt. i., 1866. 
? Dacelo fulvus Lesson, Ann. Sci. Nat., Vol. VI., p. 244, Nov., 1825, nom. nud. 
Ghoucalcyon australe Lesson, Traite d’Ornith., p. 248, 1830 : New South Wales. 
Dacelo gigas Gray, Gen. Birds, Vol. I., p. 78, 1846 ; id., List Fissirostr. Birds B.M., p. 61, 
1848; Reichenbach, Handb. Alced., p. 40, 1851; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 122, 1865 ; Sharpe, Monogr. Alced., p. 285, pi. 112, 1870 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 582, 1875 (Q.) ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
p. 179, 1878; Sharpe, Zool. Alert, p. 21, 1884 (N.Q.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List. Austr. 
Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 36, 1890 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XVII., p. 204, 1892 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Picariae, p. 1, 1894; Hall, 
Key Austr. Birds, p. 57, 1899; Robinson and Laverock, Ibis, 1900, p. 638 (Q.) ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 551, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, 
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