DACELONID/E. 
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Syma torotoro ochracea R. & H 
Syma torotoro ochracea Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. vol. viii. 
p. 148, 1901 : Fergusson Island. 
Dist r. —Fe rgu s son I si an d. 
Syma torotoro wellsi Math. 
Syma torotoro wellsi Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. p. 113 1918: 
Utakwa River. 
Distr .— Now Guinea (Utakwa River). 
Syma megarhyncha Salvad. 
Distr .—East New Guinea. 
Syma megarhyncha megarhyncha. 
Syma megarhyncha Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. xvi. p. 70, 
189(5: South-East New Guinea (Owen Stanley Range). 
Syma weiskei Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. vol. viii. p. 186, 1900: Astrolabe Mts. 
Distr .— New Guinea. 
Syma megarhyncha sellamontis Reich. 
Syma torotoro sellamontis Reichenow, Journ. fur Orn. 1919, p. 334: 
Sat tel berg. 
Syma torotoro connectens Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. p. 114, 1918 : Hum¬ 
boldt Bay, New Guinea. 
Distr .— New Guinea (Sattelberg). 
Genus MELIDORA I iess. 
Melidora Lesson, Traits d’Orn. p. 249, 1830. Type (by monotypy) : 
Dacelo macrorhinus Lesson. 
Melidora macrorhinus (Less.). 
Distr .— New Guinea and Jobi. 
Melidora macrorhinus macrorhinus (Lesson). (17-201.) 
Dacelo macrorhinus Lesson, Bull. Sci. Nat. Ferussac, vol. xii. 
p. 131, 1827; and Voy. Coqu., Zool. Atlas, pi. 31 bis, tig. 2, 1829 : 
Dorey, South-West New Guinea. 
Melidora euphrosise Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 249,1830 : new name for above. 
Melidora goldiei Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. i. p. 389,1876 : Lalok R., 
New Guinea (British). 
Melidora collai'is Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vol. xiii. p. 313, 1877 : S.W. 
New' Guinea. 
Distr. —New Guinea (South-West). 
Melidora macrorhinus jobiensis Salvad. (17-203.) 
Melidora jobiensis Salvadori, Orn it. Pap. e Mol. vol. i. p. 502, 1880: 
Jobi. 
Distr .—Jobi. 
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