It may not be an undesigned coincidence that the inconsolable widower of the "Daphnaida" is named Alcyon, while Chaucer's poem begins with a reference to the myth of Ceyx and Alcyone.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward
Sir Arthur Gorges re-appears in Alcyon in "Colin Clout's come home again."
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward
Amongst some other birds, of which the natives either brought fragments, or dried skins, we could distinguish a small species of hawk, a heron, and the Alcyon, or large-crested American king-fisher.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16"
Robert Kerr