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Alcyone azurea alisteri Mathews, Austral Ay. Rec. vol. i. p. 37, April 2nd, 1912 : 
Parry’s Creek, North-West Australia. (Fig. Math. vii. pi. 332.) 
Disfr. —North-West Australia, Northern Territory, and North 
Queensland. 
Alcyone azurea lessonii Cass. (17-170.) 
Alcyone lessonii Cassin, Proe. Phil. Acad. vol. v. p. 69, 1850: New 
Guinea. (Fig. Sharpe, pi. 15. fig. 2.) 
Distr. —New Guinea (Arfak Peninsula). 
Alcyone azurea wallaceana Math. 
Alcyone azurea wallaceana Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. p. 94, 
1918 : Am Islands. 
Distr .—Aru Islands. 
Alcyone azurea ochrogaster Reicbenow. 
Alcyone ochrogaster Reiehenow, Journ. f. Ornith. 1903, p. 149: 
Ramu River, Dutch New Guinea. 
Alcyone azurea distincta Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. p. 94, 1918 : Humbolt 
Bay, New Guinea. 
Distr. —New Guinea (North coast). 
Alcyone azurea affinis Gray. 
Alcyone affinis Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1860, p. 348 : Batjan. 
(Fig. Sharpe, pi. 15. fig. 1.) 
Distr .—Batjan and Halmahera Islands. 
Alcyone azurea yamdenae Rothsch. 
Alcyone azurea yamdenm Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xi. 
p. 64, May 31st, 1901: Yamdena. 
Distr .—Tenimber Group. 
Alcyone websteri Hart. 
Alcyone websteri Hartert, in Webster’s ‘ Through New Guinea/ 1899, 
p. 371 flbis, 1899, p. 278, pi. 3): New Hanover. 
Alcyone, websteri magna “ G. H. Martens/’ Dnneker, Arch. f. Nat. lxxxviii. 
p. 48, 1922 : New Britain. 
Distr .—Rook Island, New Ireland, New Britain, and New 
Hanover. 
Sub-Genus MICRALCYONE Mathews. 
Micralcyone Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 107* Dec. 24th. 
1912. Type (by original designation) : Alcyone pusilla halli 
Mathews. 
Micralcyone pusilla (Temminck). 
Distr .—Northern Australia, New Guinea and Islands, Solomon 
and Bougainville Islands, New Ireland, and Aru Island. 
