All the upper surface and a patch on each side of the chest fine ultramarine blue, becoming more vivid on the rump and upper tail-coverts; on each side of the neck behind the ear-coverts a tuft of yellowish white feathers; wings black; throat white, slightly washed with buff; all the under surface, including the under side of the wing, ferruginous orange, the flanks tinged with bluish lilac, giving them a rich purple hue; line from the bill to the eye reddish orange; irides and bill black; feet orange. The Plate represents the two sexes of the natural size. [Illustration: ALCYONE PUSILLA. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] ALCYONE PUSILLA. Little Kingfisher. _Ceyx pusilla_, Temm. Pl. Col., 595. fig. 3. _Nu-reä-bin-mo_, Aborigines of the Cobourg Peninsula. This lovely little Kingfisher is a native of the northern shores of Australia; the specimens in my collection were all procured at Port Essington where it is a rare bird; and from it always inhabiting the densest mangroves, is not only seldom seen, but is extremely difficult to procure; in general habits and manners it very much resembles the _Alcyone azurea_, but its note is somewhat more shrill and piping, and its flight more unsteady. Specimens of this species from New Guinea, which I have had opportunities of examining in the noble collection at Leyden, present no difference whatever from those found in Australia. The food of the _Alcyone pusilla_ consists exclusively of fish, which are taken precisely after the manner of the Common Kingfisher of our own island. The sexes are alike in size and colour. Lores, a tuft behind the ear-coverts and under surface silky white; forehead, sides of the neck, wing-coverts and the margins of the secondaries green; primaries brownish black; all the upper surface and a large patch on each side on the chest brilliant intense blue; tail dull deep blue; irides dark blackish brown; bill black; legs and feet greenish grey. The figures are of the natural size. [Illustration: ARTAMUS SORDIDUS. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del^t_ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] ARTAMUS SORDIDUS. Wood Swallow. _Turdus sordidus_, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp., p. xliii. _Sordid Thrush_, Lath. Gen. Syn., Supp., vol. ii. p. 186.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. x. p. 238.—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. v. p. 131. _Ocypterus albovittatus_, Cuv. Règn. Anim., tom. iv. t. 3. f. 6.—Valenc. Mém. du Mus. d’Hist. Nat., tom. vi. p. 23. t. 8. f. 2.—Gould, Syn. Birds of Australia, Part I. fig. 3. _Artamus lineatus_, Vieill. 2nde Edit. du Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. xvii. p. 297.—Ib. Ency. Méth., Part II. p. 758. _Artamus albovittatus_, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 210. _Leptopteryx albovittata_, Wagl. Syst. Av., sp. 5.