Red-backed kingfisher
- Description
- Collected on the Burdekin River, Queensland, early May 1845. In 1944 Miss Fox, a school mistress from Beckenham donated 20 mounted birds from Australia and 2 from New Zealand to RAMM. We do not know how she came by them. Their significance has recently been uncovered by Clemency Fisher from National Museums Liverpool. The Australian birds were collected by John Glibert and John Murphy on the Queenstown leg of the Leichhardt Expedition which ended at Port Essington in December 1845. Most of the specimens are listed in Murphy's manuscript diary.
- Accession Loan No.
- 5/1944/3
- Collection Class
- Birds
- Common Name
- red-backed kingfisher
- Simple Name
- bird
- Full Name
- HALCYONIDAE: Todiramphus pyrrhopygius (Gould): red-backed kingfisher
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Fox, Miss E M (from the collection of): Murphy, John and Gilbert, John
- Collection County
- Queensland
- Collection Country
- Australia
- Collection Area Region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Collection Continent
- Oceania
- Phylum
- CHORDATA: VERTEBRATA
- Family
- HALCYONIDAE
- Genus
- Halcyon
- Species
- pyrrhopygia
