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Sub-Gen us DILAZULA Math. 
Dilazula Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. vii. p. 155, 1918. Type (bv 
original designation) : Halcyon nigrocyanea Wallace. 
Dilazula nigrocyanea (Wall.). 
Distr. —New Guinea, Salwatty, and Batjan. 
Dilazula nigrocyanea nigrocyanea (Wall.). (17-256.) 
Halcyon nigrocyanea Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1862, p. 165, 
pi. 19: New Guinea (N.W.). (Fig. Sharpe, pi. 75.) 
Halcyon diopsioides Muaschenbroek, Dagbock, p. 144, 1883 : Sorong. 
Distr .—New Guinea (N.W.). 
Dilazula nigrocyanea quadricolor (Oust.). (17-258.) 
Cyanalcyon quadricolor Oustalet, Le Naturaliste, 1880, p. 323: 
Geelvink Bay, New Guinea (Northern). (Fig. Gould, N. G. iv 
pi. 56.) 
Distr. New Guinea (North). 
Dilazula nigrocyanea stictolaema (Salvad.). (17-257.) 
Cyanalcyon stictolccma Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Giv. Gen. vol. ix. p. 20 
1876: Fly River. (Fig. Gould, N. G. iv. pi. 58.) 
Distr .—New Guinea (South), Fly River. 
Sub-Genus CYANALCYON Bonaparte. 
Cyanalcyon Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, vol. ii. no. 11, p. 319 (Consp. 
Voluerum Aniso. p. 9), (August before 28th) 1854. Type (by 
subsequent designation, Gray, p. 136, 1855) : Halcyonpyrrho- 
pygid Gould. 
Cyanalcyon pyrrhopygius (Gould). 
Distr. —Australia generally ; more or less a bird of the interior 
districts. Not Tasmania. 
Cyanalcyon pyrrhopygius pyrrhopygius (Gould). (17-258.) 
Halcyon pyrrhopygia Gould, Birds Austr. pt. i. (vol. ii. pi. 22), 
liec. 1st, 1840: interior New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, ii. pi. 22.) 
Distr. —South Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria 
(North). 
Cyanalcyon pyrrhopygius obscurus (Mathews). 
Halcyon pyrrhopygius obscurus Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 288, 
Jan. 31st, 1912: Parry’s Creek, North-West Australia. (Fig! 
Math. vii. pi. 338.) 
Halcyon pyrrhopygius utingi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i.p. 118, Dec. 24th, 
1912: Cape York, Queensland. (Fig. Math. vii. pi. 338.) 
Distr. —Mid and North-West Australia, Northern Territory, and 
North Queensland. 
