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Alcedo beryllina Yieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. vol. xix. p. 414, 1818 : Java. 
Alcedo biru Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xiii. p. 172, 1821: Java. 
Distr. —Java, Kangean, Bali, and Lombok. 
Genus ALCEDOIDES Laubm. 
Alcedoides Laubmann, Arch. f. Naturg. 1923, p. 195, 1924. Type 
(by original designation) : Alcedo meninting Horsf. 
Alcedoides meninting Horsf. 
Distr .—Southern Tenasserim through Malay Peninsula to Java, 
' Sumatra, Borneo, and Celebes. 
Alcedoides meninting meninting Horsf. (17-157.) 
Alcedo meninting Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xiii. p. 172, 
1821 : Java. (Fig. Sharpe. Monogr. pi. 5.) 
Alcedo verreauxii Do la Berge, Kev. & Mag. de Zool. 1851, p. 305, pi. 9 : Borneo. 
Alcedo niegarhynchus Hartert, Vogels. Mus. Senck. Gesell. p. 134, 1891: as 
synonym of meninting (ex Soliiff MS.). 
Distr .—Celebes. Extra-1 inrital. 
Genus ALCYONE Sw. 
Alcyone Swainson, Classif. Birds, vol. ii. p. 336, July 1st, 1837. 
Type (by monotypy) : A. australis^ Alcedo azurea Latham. 
Alcyone azurea (Latham). 
Distr. — Australia, New Guinea, Aru, and Batjan Islands. 
Alcyone azurea azurea (Latham). (17-168.) 
Alcedo azurea Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl. p. xxxii, (after.May) 
1801: “In Insula Norfolk,” error=New South Wales. (Fig. 
Gould, ii. pi. 25.) (Watling dm wing No. 79.) 
Alcedo tribrachys Shaw & Nodder, Nat. Misc. vol. xvi. pi. 681, Aug. 1st, 1805 : 
New South Wales. 
Ceyx cyanea Lesson, Traite d’Orn. 4e livr. p. 241, Sept. 25th, 1830 : Timor, 
error—New South Wales. 
Alcyone australis Swainson, Class. Birds, vol. ii. p. 336, July 1st, 1837 : New 
South Wales. 
Alcyone diemenensis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., May 1846, p. 19 : Tasmania. 
Alcyone azurea victoria Mathows, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 285, Jan. 31st, 1912: 
Franks ton, Victoria. 
Distr. —South Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, 
Tasmania, and South Australia. 
Alcyone azurea pulchra Gould. (17-169.) 
Alcyone pulchra Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., May 1846, p. 19 : 
Port Essington, Northern Territory. (Fig. Math. vii. pi. 332.) 
Alcyone azurea mixta Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 285, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Cooktown, North Queensland. 
