CERYLE. 475 
Segovia river (Townsend 2°) ; Nicaragua, Momotombo ( W. B. Richardson), San Juan 
del Sur 9, Sucuyd 2°, Omotepe 2! (Nutting), Escondido R. (Richmond *°); Costa 
Rica, Agua Caliente, Orosi, Navarro (v. Frantzius!), La Palma (Nutting *), 
Gulf of Nicoya (Sir #. Belcher 38), Peje (Carmiol), Liberia, Jimenez (Zeledon 24); 
Panama, Lion Hill (MLeannan™™), Chepo (Arcé).—Sovuta America generally, 
except Patagonia and the west coast of Chili and Peru. 
Ceryle torquata is much the largest of the Central-American Kingfishers, and in the 
southern continent is only equalled by forms that are barely separable from it. 
Though allied to C. alcyon, it has a wholly different range, being in fact a South- 
American species, extending northwards through Central America to both Western and 
Eastern Mexico even to the Rio Grande, where a specimen was shot a few years ago 
near Laredo, its capture being recorded by Mr. Stone. 
In South America its range is nearly universal, and only in Southern Patagonia and 
the west coast of the continent between the Andes and the Pacific is its place taken 
by the closely-allied C. stellata. In altitude C. torquata does not reach nearly so high 
as C. alcyon, as it keeps to the stiller waters of the rivers as they approach the sea and 
the lakes and swamps near the coast. Grayson says that he only saw it near the sea 
in the vicinity of Mazatlan, but not in the river itself!*. It preferred stagnant pools 
and lagoons densely shaded with overhanging trees. Our experience was somewhat 
different, for during canoe journeys down the Belize river and on the Rio Dulce birds 
of this species were seldom out of sight, flying ahead of the boat and alighting from 
time to time to start again as she approached, till at last, being driven beyond their 
usual haunts, they would dash past in the opposite direction. 
So far as we know, C. torqguata makes no migratory movements, but remains 
sedentary throughout its range the whole year. 
B. Corpus supra nitente viride. 
3. Ceryle amazona. 
Amazonian Kingfisher, Lath. Gen. Syn., Suppl. i. p. 116°. 
Alcedo amazona, Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 257’. 
Ceryle amazona, Scl. P. Z.S. 1857, p. 202°; Moore, P. Z.S. 1859, p. 53 *; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, 
p. 181°; P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 363°; 1867, p. 2797; Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 183°; Salv. 
Ibis, 1860, p. 195°; P. Z. S. 1867, p. 152"; 1870, p. 201"; Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 416 ". 
Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 290"; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 295"; Bull. U.S. Nat. 
Mus. no. 4, p. 30"; v. Frantz. J. £. Orn. 1869, p.311*°; Sharpe, Mon. Alced. p. 83, t. 24; 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 129%; Finsch, Abh. nat. Ver. z. Bremen, 1870, p. 328"; 
Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 239%; Boucard, P. Z.S. 1883, p. 453” ; Nutting, Pr. U.S. Nat. 
Mus. vi. p. 394”; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 161”; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nae. 
Costa Rica, 1887, p. 119%; Richmond, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi, p. 511”. 
Chloroceryle amazonia, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 161 * 
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