A476 ALCEDINID.E. 
Supra nitide viridis, stria malari, pectoris lateribus concoloribus, hypochondriis quoque viridi striatis; macula 
infra oculos, gula, torque cervicali integra, abdomine et tectricibus subcaudalibus albis, pectore medialiter 
et abdomine antico plaga magna castanea ornatis; alis nigris, subalaribus albis; cauda viridi-nigricante, 
rectricum lateralium marginibus albo maculatis, rectricibus externis in pogonio externo ad basin quoque 
maculatis ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long. tota circa 11:0, alee 5°5, caude 3°15, rostri a rictu 3:0, 
tarsi 0°5. 
Q mari similis, subtus medialiter omnino albus, plaga pectorali castanea nulla. 
Hab. Mrxtco, Mazatlan (Grayson “), Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), San Blas (W. B. 
ftichardson), Tupila river (Xantus'4), Jalapa (Sallé*, Ferrari-Perez 3), Santa 
Ana, Misantla, Plan del Rio ( Ferrari-Perez), La Antigua, Vega del Casadero 
(M. Trujillo), Teapa (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Chihuitan, Santa Efigenia , Tehu- 
antepec *° (Sumichrast), N. Yucatan (G. F. Gawmer?!); British Honpuras, Cayo 
in the western district (Blancaneaua) ; Guatamata (Skinner ®, Constancia 12), Vera 
Paz, San Gerdnimo, San José de Guatemala, Huamuchal (0.8. & FLD. G.); 
Honpuras, Omoa (Leyland +); Nicaragua, Omotepe (Nutting 22), Escondido R. 
(Lichmond *°), Blewfields (Wickham™); Costa Rica26, Agua Caliente, Orosi, Navarro 
(v. Frantzius '°), Pacuare (Zeledon **) ; Panama, Chitra 44, Calovevora 4, Santiago de 
Veraguas 1° (Arcé), Lion Hill (M‘Leannan ® 1), Nercua (Wood §) —Sovrn AMERICA 
generally, from Colombia and Guiana to Argentina }8, 
The Amazonian Kingfisher of Latham has been known for more than a century, and 
is one of the commonest of the Kingfishers of South America. It has a similar range 
to C. torquata, but not quite so extended in Eastern Mexico, its limits northward 
probably not passing the State of Vera Cruz. In altitude it is found from the sea- 
level to a height of 3000 or 4000 feet in the rivers and lakes of the mountainous parts 
of the country it inhabits. 
Like the other South-American species of Alcedinide, C. amazona seems to be 
resident throughout the year wherever it is found. 
4. Ceryle septentrionalis. 
Alcedo americana, Swains. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 366 (nec Gmelin) *, 
Ceryle americana, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, pp. 1897, 286°; 1858, p. 858*; 1859, p. 367°; Moore, 
P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 53°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 1817; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N.Y. vii. 
p- 290°; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 189°. 
Ceryle cabanisi, Salv. P. Z.S. 1867, p. 152"; 1870, p. 201”; Ibis, 1872, p. 321"; Scl. & Salv. 
P. Z.8. 1867, p. 280"; 1870, p. 887; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p- 118; Sharpe, Mon. 
Alced. p. 87 (partim) ’; v. Frantzius, J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 311 ‘; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, 
p. 48"; 1883, p. 453"; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 239”; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. ix. p. 161"; Ridgw. Pr. U. 8. Nat. Mus. x. pp. 582%, 591 *; Zeledon, An. Mus. 
Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 119**; Herrera, La Nat. (2) 1. p. 3821”; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, 
p- 822”, 
Ceryle americana, var. cabanisi, Baird, Brew., and Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, ii. p. 396°’; Lawr. Mem. 
Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 290"; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4,p. 380”. 
