LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Alcyone pusilla halli Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 286, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cairns, Queensland. 
Alcyone ramsayi North, Ibis, 1912, p. 119, Feb. 7th : Port Essington, Northern Territory. 
Micralcyone pusilla yovhi Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. VTI., pt. 1, p. 103, March 4th, 1918 : Cape York, North 
Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland, Northern Territory. 
Family DACELONIDiE. 
CCLYI. Genus SYMA. 
Syma Lesson, Bull. Sci. Nat. Ferussac, Vol. XI., p. 443, (July (?) 1827. Type (by monotypy) : Syma lorotoro 
Lesson. 
304. SYMA TOROTORO. YELLOW-BILLED KINGFISHER. 
[Syma torotoro Lesson, Bull. Sci. Nat. Ferussac, Vol. XI., p. 443, (July ?) 1827 : Dorey, Arfak Peninsula, New 
Guinea. Extra-limital.] 
Gould, Suppl., pi. 5 (pt. i.), March 15th, 1851. Mathews, Vol. VII., pt. 1, pi. 334, March 
4th, 1918. 
Halcyon ( Syma ?) flavirostris Gould, in Jardine’s Contr. Ornith., 1850, p. 105 : Cape York, Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland. 
CCLVII. Genus DACELO. 
Daeelo Leach, Zool. Miscell., Vol. II., p. 125, pi. 106, 1815. Type (by monotypy) : Dacelo gigantea = Alcedo gigas 
Boddaert. 
Paralcyon Gloger, in Froriep’s Notizen, Vol. XVI., p. 278, March 1827. New name for “ Dacelo Leach.” 
Agreutes Billberg, Synops. Faunae Scand., Vol. I., pt. ii., Aves, tab. A., 1828. New name for '* Dacelo Leach.” 
Of. Austral Av. Ree., Vol. II., pts. 2-3, p. 39, Oct. 23rd, 1913. 
Choucalcyon Lesson, Traite d’Orn., 4e livr., p. 248, Sept. 25th, 1830. Type (by subsequent designation. Lesson, 
Compl. de Buffon, Vol. IX., p. 355, 1837) : Alcedo gigas Boddaert. 
Nycticeyx Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsb. Naturg., pt. 5, p. 338, (before Oct. 17th) 1841. New name for “ Dacelo Leach.” 
305. DACELO GIGAS. KOOKABURRA. 
Gould. Vol. II., pi. 18 (pt. xv.), June 1st, 1844. Mathews, Vol. VII., pt. 2, pi. 335, May 15th, 
1918. 
Alcedo gigas Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enlum., p. 40, No. 663, (pref. Dec. 1st) 1783 : New South Wales. 
? Alcedo undulata Scopoli, Del. Flor. Farm. Insub., pt. n., p. 90, 1786 : “ New Guinea ”=New South Wales. 
Alcedo fusca Gmelin, Syst. Nat., Vol. I., pt. i., p. 454, July 25th, 1788 : New South Wales. 
Not Alcedo fusca Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enlum., p. 54, No. 894, (pref. Dec. 1st) 1783. 
Alcedo gigantea Latham, Index Ornith., Vol. I., p. 245, 1790 (before Dec. 9th). New name for Alcedo fusca 
Gmelin. 
? Dacelo fulvus Lesson, Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, Vol. VI., p. 250, after Nov. 1825. Nom. nud. : New South Wales . 
Choucalcyon australe Lesson, Traite d’Orn., 4e livr.,p. 248, Sept. 25th, 1830 : New South Wales. 
Dacelo gigas subsp. minor Robinson, Bull. Liverp. Mus., Vol. II., Nos. 3 and 4, p. 116, Jan. 1900 : Cooktown, 
Queensland. 
Dacelo mclennani North, Agric. Gazette, N.S.W., Vol. XXII., pt. 7, p. 609, July 3rd, 1911: Cape York, Queensland. 
Dacelo gigas tregellasi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 287, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Olinda, Victoria. 
Dacelo gigas watsoni Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., pt. 4, p. 70, July 21st, 1917 : Watson River, Gulf of 
Carpentaria, Queensland. 
Distribution. Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. Introduced into West Australia 
and Tasmania. 
306. DACELO LEACHII. BLUE-WINGED KINGFISHER. 
Gould, Vol. II., pi. 19 (pt. xxxi.), June 1st, 1848 ; pi. 20 (pt. xv.), June 1st, 1844. Mathews, 
Vol. VII., pt. 2, pi. 336, May 15th, 1918. 
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