ALCEDO • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Alcedo

... y agresiones de los ingleses y de otros pueblos de Europa en la America espanola desde el siglo XVI. al XVIII., deducidas de las obras de D. Dionisio de Alcedo ...

— The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century • Clarence Henry Haring

... than ordinary kindness; and Fraser, for his part, in order to gratify these favoured guests, made great havoc among the feathered race. He returned after a short ramble with a variety of game, among which were a crow, a kite, and a laughing jackass (alcedo gigantea,) a species of king's-fisher, a singular bird, found in every part of Australia. Its cry, which resembles a chorus of wild spirits, is apt to startle the traveller who may be in jeopardy, as if laughing and mocking ...

— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt