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Sauromarptis gaudicliaud (Quoy & Gaimard). 



Dacelo gaudichaud Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool. 1824, p. 112, pi. 25. 

 Sauromarptis gaudichaudii, Salvadori. Orn. Pap. I, 1880, p. 487. 

 Sauromarptis gaudichaudi, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XVII, 1892, p. 209. 

 Sauromarptis gaudichaud, Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. VIII, 1901, p. 151. 



Coll. KOCH: 



Q, Etna Bay, 1 December 1904. Iris black, bill yellowish green, feet pale grey. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 4, Q, Noord River, 4 May 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet dirty yellow. 



X°. 5, (f, Noord River, 4 May 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet dirty yellow. 



N°. 18, Q, Noord River, 10 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill dirty yellow, feet black. 



N 3 . 32, çf, Noord River, 12 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet dirty yellow. 



N°. 33, cf, Noord River, 12 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet dirty yellow. 



N°. 34, Q, Noord River, 12 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet dirty yellow. 



N°. 62, ç?, Noord River, 16 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet dirty yellow. 



N°. 135, Q, Noord River, 24 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill dirty yellow, feet black. 



N c . 189, (f, Noord River, 2 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill dirty white, feet black. 



N°. 452, Q, Alkmaar, 21 September 1907. Iris brown, bill ashy grey, feet greenish ashy grey. 



N°. 472, rf, Noord River, 2 August 1907. Iris brown, bill greyish green, feet grey. 



Dacelo leachii intermedius Salvadori. 



Dacelo intermedius Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, IX, 1876-77, p. 21. — Id. Orn. Pap I, 



18S0, p 497. 

 Dacelo leachii subsp. (3 Dacelo intcrmedia, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. XVII, 1892, p. 208. 



Coll. KOCH: 



rf, Merauke, 16 August 1904. 



Q, Merauke, 1 September 1904. Iris white 



Native name : Koemindeka. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 522, not sexed (but Q), Merauke, 21 November 1907. Iris dull white, upper mandible black, 

 lower mandible dull white, feet pale green. 



Clytoceyx rex imper ator nov. subsp. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 449, cf, Alkmaar, 17 September 1907. Iris pale brown, upper mandible pale brown, lower 

 mandible dull white, feet dull white with a greenish tinge. 



As to the coloration this example agrées with Clytoceyx rex Sharpe. (Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. VI, (1880), p. 231 — Cat. B. Br. M. XVII, 1892, p. 203). It is however considerably 

 larger and has also a much heavier bill. Total length about 360, wing 180, tail 148, bill 55, 

 tarso-met. 29 mm. Three spécimens of C. rex, brought home in 1903 by Mssrs. DE BEAUFORT 

 and LORENTZ from the northcoast near the Humboldt Bay, measure: wing rf 165, $9 1( 3o, 

 162; tail cf 1,24, 95 116, 120; bill çf 45, 99 47> 4 8 ; tarso-met. rf 27, 09 26 mm. The 



