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DACELONIDiE. 
Genus CLYTOCEYX Sharpe. 
Clytoceyx Sharpe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1880, p. 231. Type (by 
monotypy) : Clytoceyx rex Sliarpe. 
Clytoceyx rex Sharpe. 
Distr. —New Guinea (mountains of South-East). 
Clytoceyx rex rex Sharpe. (17-203.) 
Clytoceyx rex Sharpe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1880, p. 231: East 
Cape, New Guinea (S.E.). (Fig. Gould, N. G. iv. pi. 9.) 
Distr. —New Guinea (East ('ape). 
Clytoceyx rex imperator Oort. 
Clytoceyx rex imperator Oort, Nova Guinea, vol. ix., Zool. livr. 1, 
p. 79, 1909 : Foot of Hell wig Mts. 
Distr .— New Guinea (Hellwig Mts.), south of Snow Mts. 
Genus DACELO Leach. 
Dacelo Leach, Zool. Miscell. vol. ii. p. 125, pi. 100, 1815. Type (by 
monotypy) : Dacelo gigantea=Alcedo novcegilineai llerm. 
Parah’.yon Gloger, in Froriep’a Notizen, vol. xvi. p. 278, March 1827 : new name 
for Dacelo Leach. 
Agrentes Billberg, Synops. Fauna* Scand. vol. i. pi. 2, Aves, tab. A, 1828 : new 
name for Dacelo Leach. Cf. Austral Av. Kec. vol. ii. pts. 2-3, p. 39, Oct. 23rd, 
1913. 
Choucalcyon Lesson, Trait*; d’Orn. 4o livr. p. 248, Sept. 25th, 1830. Type (by 
subsequent designation, LesBon, Compl. do Buffon, vol. ix. p. 355, 1837) : Alcedo 
gigas Bodd.= Alcedo novwguinetc Hermann. 
Nycticeyx Gloger, Hand- n. Hilfeb. Naturg. pt. 5, p. 338, (before Oct. 17th) 1841 : 
new name for Dacelo Leach. 
Dacelo novaeguinese (Hermann). 
Distr. —Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Aus¬ 
tralia/ Introduced into West Australia and Tasmania. 
Dacelo novaeguineae novaeguineae (Hermann). (17-204.) 
Alcedo novceguinete Hermann, Tab. Aff. Anim. p. 192 (note), before 
Nov. 5th, 1783, based on Tabl. Planch. Eidum. p. 40, no. G63: 
New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, ii. pi. 18.) 
Alcedo gigas Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enlum. p. 40, after Dec. 1st, 1783: New 
South Wales. 
Alcedo undulata Scopoli, Del. Flor. Faun. Insub. pt. 2, p. 90, 1786 : New Guinea, 
errore New South Wales. 
Alcedo fnsca Groelin, Syst. Nat. p. 454, 1788: not Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. 
Enlum. p. 54, No. 894, after Dec. 1st, 1783. 
Alcedo gigantea Latham, Index Orn. vol. i. p. 245, before Dec. 9th, 1790: new 
name for Alcedo fv sea. 
Choucalcyon australe Lesson, Traite d’Orn. 4e ivr. p. 248, Sept. 25th, 1830 : 
New South Wales 
