Order ALCEDINIF0RME8, Family DACELONIDM. 
No. 388. 
DACELO LEACHII. 
BLUE-WINGED KINGFISHER. 
(Plate 336.) 
Daoelo LEACHn Vigors and Horsfield, Trans, Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 205, 1827 : 
Keppel Bay, Queensland. 
New Holland Kingfisher, Latham, Gren, Hist. Birds, Vol. IV., p. 11, 1822. 
Dacelo leachii Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 205, 1827 : 
Keppel Bay, Queensland ; Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 78, 1846 ; Gould, Birds 
Austr., pt. XXXI. (Vol. II., pi. 19), 1848 ; Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 154, 
1850 ; Reichenbach, Handb. Alced., p, 41, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 124, 1865 ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 84 (N.Q.) ; Biggies, Ornith. Austr., 
pt. xn., 1867 ; Sharpe, Monogr. Alced., p. 289, pi. 113, 1870 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 582 (Q.) ; Castelnau and Ramsay, Proc. linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. I., p. 379, 1877 (Q.); Ramsay, ib., Vol. II., p. 179, 1878; id., Vol. VII., p. 45, 
1883 ; Sharpe, Zool. Alert, p. 23, 1884 ; 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. 206, 1892 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Picariae, p. 4, 1894 ; Hall, Key 
Austr. Birds, p. 57, 1899 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. VT., p. 428, 1899 (N.Q.) ; 
Robinson and Laverock, Ibis, 1900, p. 639 (N.Q.) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 554, 1901 ; Webb, Emu, Vol. II., p. 29, 1902 (N.Q.) ; 
Le Souef, ib., 151, 1903 (N.T.) ; Berney, ib., Vol. VI., p. 44, 1906 (N.Q.) ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 54, 1908 ; Ingram, Ibis, 1908, p. 466 (N.Q.) ; Broadbent, 
Emu, Vol. X., p. 234, 1910 (N.Q.) ; G. F. Hill, ib., Vol. XII., p. 256, 1913 (N.T.) ; 
Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 160, 1914 (N.Q.). 
Dacelo cervina Gk)uld, Birds Austr. and Adj. Islands, pt. n., pi. 2, 1838 : Hab. ? = Port 
Essington, Northern Territory ; id.. Birds Austr., pt. xv. (Vol. II., pi. 20), 1844 ; 
Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 78, 1846 ; Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 154, 
1850 ; Reichenbach, Handb. Alced., p. 40, 1851 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 125, 1865 ; Sharpe, Monogr. Alced., p. 291, pi. 114, 1870 ; Masters, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 47, 1875 (Q.) ; id., ib., Vol. II., p. 270, 1878 
(N.T.) ; Ramsay, ib., p. 179, 1878 ; id., ib., Ser. n., Vol. L, p. 1086, 1886 (N.W.A.) ; 
id., ib., Vol. II., p. 166, 1887 (N.W.A.) ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XVII., p. 207, 1892 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. 
Picarise, p. 5, 1894 ; Le Souef, Ibis, 1897, p. 392 (Q.) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
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