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N. H. ii. p. 289"; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p- 30'*; Sharpe, Mon. Alced. p. 79, t. 23; 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 125; v. Frantzius, J. f£. Orn. 1869, p. 311"; Dugés, La 
Nat. i. p. 189"; Grayson, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 284°; Salv. Ibis, 1872, p. 821”; 
1889, p. 371"; 1890, p.88"; Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 416”; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. 
Birds, ii. p. 892"; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 111”; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 239”; Nutting, 
Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. pp. 375°, 394”; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 160”; 
Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. pp. 178, 32177; Stone, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1890, p. 206; Richmond, Pr. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 511”. 
Streptoceryle alcyon, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 162°. 
Supra schistacea, capite cristata, plumis clongatis singulis medialiter nigris; capitis lateribus schistaceis, 
macula infra oculos altera supra lora albis: subtus alba, torque pectorali schistacea, cervicis lateribus 
postice fere conjunctis albis, hypochondriis schistaceis; alis extus schistaceis, tectricibus et secundariis 
albo stricte terminatis, remigibus nigris in pogonio externo albo maculatis, in pogonio interno, bitriente 
basali, fere omnino albo, axillaribus albis ; cauda nigra, extrorsum schistacea, rectricibus omnibus (duobus 
mediis exceptis) frequenter albo transfasciatis, fasciis singulis ad rhachidem interruptis; rostro nigro ; 
pedibus fuscis. Long. tota 12:0, ale 6-0, caudee 3-4, rostri a rictu 2°75, tarsi 0-4. (Deser. maris ex 
Tampico, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
mari similis, hypochondriis (supra abdomen anticum vix conjunctis) et axillaribus castaneis. 
Hab. Nortu America generally 24 —Mexico (7. Mann 2°), Rio de Ermitafio (W. Lloyd), 
Mazatlan (Grayson '° !6, Forrer), Tres Marias Is. (Grayson ® 1° 16), Zapotlan in Jalisco 
(W. B. Richardson), Guanajuato (Dugés 1°), Valley of Mexico (Herrera 2"), Tampico 
(W. B. Richardson), Vega del Casadero (M. Trujillo), Epatlan 26, Puebla 26, Chapulco 
(Ferrari-Perez), Orizaba (Sallé", Ferrari-Perez), Jalapa (de Oca *), Santa Efigenia 
(Sumichrast \'), Progreso in N. Yucatan (Devis, Stone & Baker °8), Shkolak (Stone 
& Baker ”*), Cozumel I. (@. &. Gaumer'*); Brirish Honpuras, Belize (0. 8. 5); 
GuaTEMALA, Rio Dulce (0. S.°), San Geronimo, Duefias, San José, Huamuchal, 
Santana Mixtan (0. 8S. & FD. G.); Honpvras, Omoa (Leyland 4), Ruatan I. 
(G. F. Gaumer'*); Nicaracua, Chontales (Janson "), San Juan del Sur 24, Omo- 
tepe * (Nutting), Escondido R, (fichmond **); Costa Rica (J. Cooper), Rio Frio 
(Richmond ?®), Navarro’4, Cartago (v. Frantzius, Carmiol °), Agua Caliente, 
Orosi (v. Frantzius'*); Panama (Jf‘Leannan *).— CotomBia, Santa Marta}; 
ANTILLES 1°, 
The Belted Kingfisher is the only member of the Alcedinide that enjoys a wide 
range over the North-American continent, where it is found from the Arctic Ocean 
southwards and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. So far as the rigour of the winter 
season permits, it is resident in the United States. Its range southwards extends on 
the mainland nearly everywhere in Mexico and Central America, as far as the Isthmus 
of Panama, and even beyond our limits to Northern Colombia. — 
Grayson says it is common at all seasons at Mazatlan!®; but on the Tres Marias 
Islands he only met with solitary individuals, sitting on rocks on the sea-shore. In 
Guatemala we saw Ceryle alcyon on nearly every river and lake from the sea- 
level to a height of about 5000 feet in the mountains, but, so far as we could ascertain, 
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