Description
Superb engravings of the Asure and Oriental dwarf kingfishers.
Common name: Azure kingfisher
Modern binomial name: Ceyx azureus
First described: Latham 1801
Distribution Australia wide
Common name: Oriental dwarf kingfisher, black-backed kingfisher or three-toed kingfisher
Modern binomial name: Ceyx erithaca
First described: Linnaeus 1758
Distribution Australia wide
Reference Readers Digest Book of Birds 2nd ed 1986 Page: 348, ill. 348
From Prideaux John Selby (1788-1867) Illustrations of Ornithology.
