DA C E LO GIGA S .
(LA U G H IN G K IN G F ISH E R .)
Grand Martin-péchcur de la Nouvelle Guinée
Martin-pêcheur de la Nomelle Guinée .
Great Brown 1
Alcedo gigas
Alcedo undulata
Dacelo undulatus
Alcedo gigantea
Dacelo gigantea
Dacelo gigas
Paralcyon gigas
Gogolcra, of the Natives of New South AVales (Goxdd).
D. scapularibus hrunnois : sexibus simillibus : pileo medio rufescenti-brunnoo, utrinque albido : cinctu
nuchaii brunneo.
Sonn. Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 171, t. cvi (1776).
Buff. Pl. Enl. 663 (e. 1780).
Lath. Syn. I. pt. 2, p. 609 (1782).
Bodd. Tabl. desPl. Enl. p. 40 (1783, ex Buff).
Scop. Del. Eaun. et Elov. Insubr. I I , p. 90
(1786, ea: Sonn>,.
Gray. P.Z.S. 1858, p. 189.
Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 454 (1788, ex Lath.).
Lath. Ind. Orn. I, p. 245 (1790).
Leach, Zool. Misc. H , p. 125, tab. cvi (1815).
Gi-ay, Gen. of B. I, p. 78 (1846).
Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein.th. II, p. 165 (1850).
Ilah. h i Australasia.
Male. Head brown in the centre, becoming v e ry dark, almost black, on the nape ;
h e rs ru n n in g along the base o f the bill d irty wh ite; lores, feathers u n d e r th e eye e x te n d in
g backwards over th e ear-coverts v e ry d a rk broivn, long and h a iry ; sides o f th e head
ex ten d in g b ackward ro u n d the n ape w hite, indiscriminately marked w ith smaU bars o f broivn ;
below tbis white, a narrow line o f dai'k broivn feathers, encfrcling th e neck from the
ex trem ity o f the ear-coverts ; below th is browm collar th ere is another wliite one, rath e r
broad and marked with ind istin ct little brown b a rs ; back and scapulars b row n ; rump
brown washed with pale b lu e ; iving-coverts d a rk brown, broadly edged with pale blue
appearing silvery ivhite in some lig h ts ; quills d a rk blackish brown, ivhite a t tbe
base, th is white appearing a t th e base o f th e o u ter web o f th e fou rth , fifth and
Additional references.—Dacelo undulaius, J . E. and G. P . Gray, Cat. Mamm. and B. of N. Guin. p. 55
(1858). Alcedo gigantea, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. I, p. 282 (1823); Shaw, Geo. Zool. VIII, p. 53 (1811).
Dacelo gigantea, Vig. and Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. XV, p. 204 (1826); Steph. Gen. Zool. I I , p. 101 (1826);
Bonnett, Wander, in N. S. W. I, pv 221 (1834); Gould, B. of Austr. I I , pl. 18 (1848); Eeich. Vog. Neuholl.
p. 36 (1850); Bonap. Cousp. Gen. Av. I, p. 153 (1850); Brohm, Bilder und Sldzzen, p. 209 (1865); Gould,
Handb. B. of Austr. I, p. 122 (1865); Sci. List Vei-tebr. An. Zool. Son. p. 90 (1866) ; Diggles, Om. of Austr.
part I (1868^. Dacelo gigas. Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1848
, , Eeich. Handb. Alccd. p. 40, t.
ecccxxvii, fig. 3161-63 (ISòì)-, ^ ■ -rr i -n,
!. Cat. Halc. Phil. Mus. p. 14 (1852) ; Gray, Haudl. of B. I. p. 89 (1869).