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i. Tanysij/tc/a /I'/i/rockar/s galatea Gray. 



Tdiii/Mijilei-a tjalaica Gray, P. Z. S. 1859. p. 154 (New Guinea). 

 Taiiii.-sipli-ni ilfti ijalaha Nov. Ziiiii.. I'lOl. p. IGII. 



I lull. All over Xew Guinea (as far as explored), with tlio excejitiou of tlie 

 northern coast from Takar to Astrolabe Ba.y, aud Waigiu aud Salwatty. 



/. TtiHi/siptera ln/drocharis meyeri Salvad. 



Taiii/xliitem mci/iri Salvador!, Arjg. Oni. Pap. i. p. 54 (1889 : hab. \a Nova Guinea, prope Kafu). 

 Tamj^ipterii ilea mei/eri Nov. Zmth. 1901. p. IGl. 



J fab. Northern New Guinea from Takar and Kafu to the Astrolabe Bay. 

 37. Halycon diops (Temin.). 



Alredo (linjj.'i Temm., PI. C"l. '-'72 (1824: "Amboina, Timor et Celebes" — errore! Typus eK 

 Ternate in Mus. Ludg., cf. Sohleg., .][us. Pui/s-Bas, Alceil/ues p. 41. 



Batjan : ^\'allace, Bernstein, Beccari, Guilleuiard, Platen, Vorderman, Kiiken- 

 thal, Doherty, Watcrstradt. 



38. Halcyon saurophaga Gould. 



IIah<j,m ,<,iHrni,U,i,ja Gould, P. Z. S. 1843. p. 1013 (New Guinea). 

 Batjan : Bernstein, Platen, Doherty. 



39. Halycon chloris (Bodd.;. 

 Batjan : Wallace, Bernstein, Platen, Waterstradt. 



40. Halcyon sanctus Vig. & Horsf. 

 Batjan : One specimen from Waterstradt in Mus. Tring. 



41. Eurystomus orientalis australis Swains. 

 Batjan : Wallace, Bernstein, Guillemard, Platen, Kiikenthal, Doherty, 

 Waterstradt. 



42. Eurystomus azureus tiray. 



Eurt/ntomus (nurernt G. R. Gray, P. Z. .S. 1800. p. 346 (Batjan, type in Brit. Mus.). 



Batjan : Wallace, Bernstein, Guillemard, the latter's single specimen {!'. Z. 8. 

 1865. p. ijdiJ) now in the Tring Museum. 



The bill is "bright coral red" in the adult bird; the figure on PI. III., 

 Cat. 11. Jhil. Mas. xvii., is that of a young bird, but there is a good plate of the 

 adull bird in Dresser's monograph of the Coraciidae. 



43. Aegotheles crinifrons (Bp.). 



lintnirhustninuii criiiifnina Bonaparte, ('{jiisp. Ai: i. p. 57 (1850: no locality! Typical locality 

 Halmahera, the type .speciman in the Leyden Museum being labelled Halmahera). 



Batjan : Wallace. 



tJ Batjan, August 1807. " Iris deep brown, feet jiale flesli-colour, bill above 

 iirowuish, below i]ale flesh-colour" (W. Doherty). This specimen differs very 

 much from the specimens described by Salvadori (O/'ii. Pap. i. p. 521) and by me 

 {Cat. B. xvi. p. 04(3, and Tierrcich, Lief. 1. p. ll») in detail. It is above brownish 



