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524a. Pod akgtjs strigoides melylllensis subsp. n. 

 Melville Island Frogmouth. 



Differs from P. s. phalcenoides in its much smaller size ; 

 wing 203 mm. 



Type, Melville Island, Northern Territory, No. 10,866. 

 Range, Melville Island. 



538a. Alcyone aztjrea alisteri, subsp. n. 

 Western Purple Kingfisher. 



Differs from A. a. pulchra in its much longer bill and 

 darker blue back. 



Type, Parry's Creek, North-west Australia, No, 1.250. 

 Range, North-west Australia. 



540a. Alcyone pusllla ramsayi. 

 Northern Little Kingfisher. 



Alcyone ramsayi North, Ibis 1912, p. 119. Port Essing- 

 ton, Northern Territory. 



548a. Dacelo leachu nana, subsp. n. 

 Dwarf Fawn-breasted Kingfisher. 



Differs from D. I. cervina. in its very much darker uncler- 

 surface, head and back, also in its smaller size ; wing 

 172 mm. , bill (from nostril) 50. 



Type, Melville Island, Northern Territory, No. 10,868. 

 Range, Melville Island. 



549a. Dacelo leachh cllftonl, subsp. n. 

 Pale Fawn-breasted Kingfisher. 



Differs from D. I. occidentalis (type from Derby) in its 

 paler under-surface, head and back. 



Type, Carnarvon, West Australia, No. 9,887. 

 Range, Mid. Westralia. 



