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Iii LITERATURE.
Alcedo maculata (ex Latham’s “ Brazilian Spotted Kingfisher” ) is not recognizable.
Alcedo cayennensis (ex Latham ’s “ Cayenne K in g fish er”). Not distinguishable.
Alcedo atricapilla (ex Latham ’s “ B lack-capped Kmgfisher ”) = ^ . p ileata, Bodd.
Alcedo atricapilla, var. ^ (ex S o n n e ra t)= y i. albivmtris (Scop.).
Alcedo venerata is a new species founded on Latham ’s “ V enerated Kingfisher.”
AUedo sacra is a new species founded on La tham ’s “ Sacred Kingfisher.”
Alcedo sacra, var. ¡3, is th e ad u lt A . sacra.
Alcedo sacra, var. y (ex Latham ’s “ Sacred Kingfisher,” var. sancta, V. & H.
Alcedo sacra, var. S (ex Latham’s “ Sacred Kingfisher,” var. C } = / /. vagans. Gray.
Alcedo sacra, var. e (ex Sonn. Voy. N. Guin. p. 67, pi. 3 3 )= r i . chloris, Bodd.
Alcedo chlorocephala (ex Latham’s “ G reen-headed Kingfisher”)—ri. chloris, Bodd.
Alcedo coerulea (ex Latham’s “ White-collared lü n g fis h e r ” ). Indeterminable with certainty.
Alcedo fu s c a (ex Latham ’s “ G re at Brown Kingfisher”)=^?c<?(?o gigas, Bodd.
Alcedo maxima (ex Latham ’s “ G reat African Kin g fish er”)=J./ce<Zo maxima, Pall.
Alcedo maxima, var. ^= C e r y le maxima (Pall.).
Alcedo leucocephala is a new species. I t is Latham ’s “ W hite-headed Kingfisher.”
Alcedo Jiavicans is described for the fiii-st time. The subject o f the description (though
th e fact is n o t acknowledged) is th e h k d called Ten-roujoulon by the natives o f Celebes
(cf. Buff. Ois. vii. p. 191). T h e whole story appears a fabrication.
Alcedo novoe guîncoe (ex Latham ’s “ N ew Guinea Kingfisher ”). Indeterminable.
Alcedo oegypUaca (ex L a th am ’s “ Egyptian Kin g fish er”). Indeterminable.
Alcedo grandis (ex Latham ’s “ Great J a c am a r”) is a Galhula.
L atham, Dr. In d ex Ornithologicus, 4to, 1790 (p. 245).
In th is volume th e a u th o r brings the synopsis o f th e Kingfishers down to the time of
writing, and h e re he first assigns L atin appellations. F o r most of the bii-ds, however,
described by him in the ‘ General Synopsis’ Gmelin h ad already given names, which are
allowed by Latham in th e p resent ‘ Index.’ I shall therefore only give th e few titles wliich
are here assigned for the first time.
Alcedo gigantea (ex “ Gre a t Brown Km g fish er” of the ‘General Synopsis’)= ^ ;c e iïo
gigas, Bodd.
Alcedo cancrophaga (“ Crab-eating Kin g fish er”). Indeterminable.
Alcedo coromanda is th e name proposed for Sonnerat’s Martin-Pêcheur violet de la côte
de Coromandel.
Alcedo amazonia is th e name proposed for th e “ Amazonian Kingfisher” (Lath. Suppl. to
Syn. p. 116).
Shaw and N odder. Vivarium Naturæ, o r ‘The Natu ra list’s Miscellany,’ 24 vols. 8vo.
1790-1813.
Alcedo cn sta ta is figured (vol. i. pi. 15).
Alcedo ispida is figured (vol. iv. pi. 129).
Alced o '\p u silla is figured (vol. v. pi. 159), = lsp id in a p ic ta .
Alcedo caerulea is figured (vol. viii. pi. 269). Indeterminable.
Alcedo erithaca is figured (vol. ix. pi. 317). Apparently Ceyo,
b u t is repre-
sented with four toes.
Alcedo a tñ ca p illa is figured (vol. xii. pi. 265).
Alcedo chlorocephala is figured (vol. xiii. pi. 625).
Alcedo tribrachys is figured (vol. xvi. pi. 681).
Alcedo leucocephala is figured (vol. xix. pi. 793).
Alcedo smyrnensis is figm-ed (vol. xix. pi. 825).
Alcedo inda is figured (vol. xxi. pi. 889).
Alcedo ultramarina is figured (vol. xxi. pi. 901).
The scientific value o f th is work is very small, as all the figures and descriptions are taken
from the works of Buffon, Albin, Edwards, &c.
L atham, H . Supplement I I. to the General Synopsis o f B irds, 1801 (p. xxxii).
Alcedo azurea is the name proposed for th e “ Azure K ingfisher” (Lath. Syn. Suppl. p. 372).
L acépède.
Mémoires de l ’In stitu t, 1801, p. 511.
The
v x is founded.
D audin, F. M. Description d’lm Guêpier et d’u n Martin-pêcheur d’Afrique (Ann. Mus.
d’Hist. Nat. ii. p. 440, 1803).
Alcedo ultramarina is a new species. I t is Isp id in a p ic ta (Bodd.).
B eehm, C. L. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands, 8vo. Ilmenau,
1811.
Alcedo subispida (p. 149) and Ä . advena (p. 150) are described as distinct from A . ispida.
Shaw, Dr. G. General Zoologj’, vol. viii. p a rt 1, Aves, 8vo, 1812 (p. 52).
All the names o f the previous writers are introduced, th e new ones proposed being :—
Alcedo afra=i Alcedo maxima, Pall., as is admitted by th e author.
Alcedo malimbica (ex L e Martin-pêcheur de Malimbe o f Sonnini) is described.
Alcedo javanica (ex Buff. PI. Enl. lñ 1)=Pelargopsis leucocephala (Gm.).
Alcedo capistrata (ex Latham’s “ White-collared Kingfisher”). Indeterminable.
Alcedo tribrachys—Alcedo azurea. Lath.
Stanley, Lord. Appendix to Salt’s Travels in Abyssinia, 1814.
Halcyon chelicuti is a new species (p. Ivi).
L each, W . E. Zoological Miscellany, 8vo, vol. ii. 1815 (p. 125).
Dacelo is a new genus. The type is th e Alcedo gigantea o f L ath. [Alcedo gigas, Bodd.).
V ieillot, J . P. Nouveau Dictionnaire d’Histoire Natui'elle, tome xx., 1818 (p. 394).
3 a new species from Timor.
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