. The birds of Australia. Birds. 236 THE BIRDS OF ATJSTEALIA Genus Dacelo. Confined to Australia and Southern New Guinea. Key to the Species. Tail alike in both sexes, rufous barred with black. X>. gigas. Tail of male blue, of female cinnamon rufous barred witb blue Total length 17 inches D. leachii. Total length 15 inches. D. cervina. The Laughing Kingfisher (Kookaburra). Dacelo gigas. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Crown of head brown, freckled with rufous on the forehead, the feathers forming a crest, the long crest feathers edged with white margins;. Sydney
. The birds of Australia. Birds. 236 THE BIRDS OF ATJSTEALIA Genus Dacelo. Confined to Australia and Southern New Guinea. Key to the Species. Tail alike in both sexes, rufous barred with black. X>. gigas. Tail of male blue, of female cinnamon rufous barred witb blue Total length 17 inches D. leachii. Total length 15 inches. D. cervina. The Laughing Kingfisher (Kookaburra). Dacelo gigas. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Crown of head brown, freckled with rufous on the forehead, the feathers forming a crest, the long crest feathers edged with white margins;. Sydney Zoo. Kookaburras: Dacelo gigas. F. George, Photographer. a very broad whitish band over the eye and encircling the neck, followed by a band of dark brown, and this by a broad white collar round the sides of the neck and hind neck; above generally brown, the upper back white with dusky brown cross bars, the lower back and rump greenish- blue; tail rufous barred with black, the under surfaces dingy white freckled with brown. Total length 17 inches, culmen , wing , tail , tarsus 1. Leach's Kingfisher. Dacelo leachii. Queensland and Northern Territory. Head white, streaked with brown; a silvery blue patch on the wing, scarcely evident in D. gigas. The male has a blue tail, the female a red one, barred with blue and with white tips to the feathers. Otherwise, and in dimensions, very like JO. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakspere; Le Soue?f, W. H. Dudley. Melbourne, London [etc. ] Whitcombe and Tombs Limited
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