THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
The other Australian race is well differentiated by its larger size and dark 
purple upper coloration, and bears the name 
Micralcyone pusilla halU (Mathews). Cairns District, North Queens- 
land. 
The type locality of Temminck’s species was Lobo, South-west New Guinea, 
and the typical subspecies must be called 
Micralcyone pusilla pusilla (Temminck). South-west New Guinea. 
As noted above, Ramsay indicated that South-east New Guinea specimens 
agreed with those from Cairns, Queensland, and were dissimilar from the 
Port Essington specimens. They are not exactly like Lobo birds, but it needs 
a series to determine these birds, the specimens in the British Museum from 
E. Ceram again slightly differing in shade. They seem more different from 
the three Solomon Island races, which have been separated. It should be 
observed that A. richardsi was separated on account of the breast band and 
blue under tail-coverts. Otherwise it was M. pusilla. Ogilvie-Grant’s sub- 
species differ in having the breast band incomplete and the tail-coverts 
white, tipped with blue. A specimen in the British Museum which was 
relegated to A. pusilla agrees in these features, and came from Wood Harbour, 
New Ireland. All these forms are slightly larger than typical M. pusilla, 
but I think they can only be regarded as subspecies, the characters being 
very unstable. In which case their names would read 
Micralcyone pusilla richardsi (Tristram). Rendova, Solomon Group. 
Micralcyone pusilla aolce (Ogilvie-Grant). Aola, Guadalcanar, 
Solomon Group. 
Micralcyone pusilla hougainvillei (Ogilvie-Grant). Bougainville 
Island, Solomon Group. 
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