THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
p. 57, 1899 ; id., Emu, Vol. II., p. 50, 1902 (N.W.A.) ; Carter, ih., Vol. III., p. 96, 
1903 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, Haudl. Birds Austral., p. 54, 1908 ; IVhitlock, Emu, 
Vol. VIII., p. 188, 1909 (W.A.) ; Mathews, ih., Vol. IX., p. 6, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1910, p. 158 (W.A.) ; Crossmann, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 150, 
1910 (N.W.A); Mathews, ih., Vol. X., p. 109, 1910 (N.W.A); G. E. HiU, Emu, 
Vol. X., p. 271, 1911 (N.W.A); Barnard (?), ih., Vol. XL, p. 24, 1911 (N.Q.) ; 
G. F. Hill, ih., Vol. XII., p. 256, 1913 (N.T.) ; Barnard, ih., Vol. XIV., p. 43, 1914 
(N.T.) ; H. L. mite, ih., Vol. XVI., p. 219, 1917 (N.T.). 
Dacelo cervicalis Kaup, Familie Eisvogel, p. 8, 1848 : error pro D. cervina. 
Paralcyon cervi'na Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Heine, Vol. II., p. 164, 1860. 
Dacelo salussii Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 125, 1865 : in syn. of D. cervim. 
Dacelo occidentalis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1869, p. 602 : North-west Australia = 
Derby; Sharp, Monogr. Alced., p. 293, pi. 115, 1870; Ramsay, Proc Linn. Soc., 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 179, 1878; Sharpe, Zool. Alert, p. 23, 1884; Ramsay, Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 3, 1888. 
Dacelo leachii subsp. cervina Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 555, 
1901 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. II., p. 151, 1903 (N.T.). 
Dacelo leachii cervina Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 214, 1905 (N.T., N.W.A.); 
Mathews, ih., Vol. XVIII., p. 287, 1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 147, 1913. 
Dacelo leachii leachii Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVHI., p. 287, 1912 ; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 147, 1913. 
Dacelo leachii occidentalis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 287, 1912 ; id.. List 
Birds Austr., p. 148, 1913 ; id.. South Austr. Omith., Vol. III., p. 72, 1917 
(N.W.A). 
Dacelo leachii mungi Mathews, Nov. 2iOol., Vol. XVIII., p. 287, 1912 : Mungi, North- 
west Australia. 
Dacelo leachii nana Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., p. 37, 1912 ; Melville Island, 
Northern Territory ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 147, 1913. 
Dacelo leachii cUftoni Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., p. 37, 1912 ; Carnarvon, 
West Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 148, 1913. 
Dacelo leachii kempi Mathews, Austral Avian Record, Vol. I., p. 89, 1912 : Cape York, 
Northern Queensland; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 147, 1913. 
Distribution. Queensland ; Northern Territory ; North-west and Mid-west Australia. 
Adult tnale. Entire head, nape, hmd-neck, sides of the face, and ear-coverts brown with 
wliite margins to the feathers, which are long and lanceolate in form and impart a 
streaked appearance ; mantle white with an isabelline tinge and minute dark tips 
to some of the feathers ; upper back, lesser marginal upper wing-coverts, scaxDulars 
and innermost secondaries dark brown with earth-brow'n edgings, and white bases 
to the feathers, which are also fringed with white at the tips ; lower back, rump, 
and central upper tail-coverts pale ghstening blue with white bases to the feathers, 
the lateral coverts much darker ; lesser, median, and greater upper wing-coverts 
pale glistening blue ; the basal portion of the feathers white, and subapically dark 
brown ; bastard-wing dull blue with dark brown inner-webs ; primary-coverts 
and pr im ary- and secondary- quills dark blue on the outer aspect, dark brown on 
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