Laughing kookaburra there. He probably obtained a preserved specimen from one of the naturalists who accompanied Captain James Cook to the east coast of Australia. Edme-Louis Daubenton and François-Nicolas Martinet included a coloured plate of the laughing kookaburra based on Sonnerat's specimen in their "Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle". The plate has the legend in French ""Martin-pecheur, de la Nouvelle Guinée"" (Kingfisher from New Guinea). In 1783, the French naturalist Johann Hermann provided a formal description of the species based the coloured plate by Daubenton and Martinet. He gave it the scientific name "Alcedo novæ Guineæ". The current genus "Dacelo" was introduced in
Egg Collecting and Bird Life of Australia Egg Collecting and Bird Life of Australia Egg collecting and bird life of Australia is a quarto-sized book authored and published in 1907 by field ornithologist and oologist Sidney William Jackson. The full title text reads: "Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacksonian oological collection", illustrated with numerous photographs depicting various incidents and items in connection with this interesting study, which has been the life work of the Author." The book is essentially a 171-page catalogue of the collection of nearly 2000 eggs, representing over 500 species of Australian birds, accumulated by Jackson from