CERYLE. 479 
Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 400 ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 453°; Salv. Ibis, 1889, p. 371”; 
1890, p. 88”. 
Chloroceryle superciliosa, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 256"; Scl. P. Z.S. 1864, p. 176 *. 
Ceryle superciliosa stictoptera, Ridgw. Pr. Biol. Soc. Wash. ii. p- 95”; Richmond, Pr. U.S. Nat. 
Mus. xvi. p. 511”. 
Ceryle stictoptera, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 189. 
Supra nitide viridis, pileo vix obscuriore, alis extus albo triseriatim maculatis, macula supra lora castanea : 
subtus gutture toto pallide castaneo, pectore et hypochondriis saturate castaneis, abdomine medio et 
tectricibus subcaudalibus albis; cauda viridi-nigricante, rectricibus preter duas medias ad basin albis. et 
in pogonio interno albo maculatis ; rostro nigro, mandibula infra ad basin carnea ; pedibus nigris, Long. 
tota circa 5:6, alee 2°25, caude 1-6, rostri a rictu 1°5, tarsi 0°35. (Descr. maris ex Choctum, Guatemala. 
Mus. nostr.) 
2 mari similis, fascia transversa pectorali saturate viridi, plumis singulis albo limbatis. 
Hab. Mexico (White*?), San Andres Tuxtla*, Playa Vicente+ (Boucard), Uvero™, 
Omealca '°, Santa Efigenia 1? (Sumichrast), Chimalapa (W. B. Richardson), Sisal 
in Yucatan (Schott 1! 8), Rio Lagartos, Cozumel I.!9 (G. F. Gawmer); Guaremaa, 
Peten (Leyland *), Choctum (0. 8S. & F. D. G.), Mouth of Rio Samala (0. 8.°); 
Honpuras, San Pedro (G@. M. Whitely’) ; Nicaragua, Escondido R. (Richmond *4); 
Costa Rica (Ellendorf*!, v. Frantzius 21), Rio Frio (Richmond 24), La Palma 
(Nutting *"); Panama, Lion Hill (M‘Leannan? 1°), Turbo (C. J. Wood °).—Souru 
AMERICA generally, to Guiana, Amazonia, and Brazil. 
Mr. Ridgway separated the Yucatan bird from the South-American Ceryle superciliosa 
under the name of C. superciliosa stictoptera, stating that the wings are spotted with 
white, those of the southern birds being nearly or quite plain. All our specimens from 
Central America agree with this definition; but only four out of twenty-one birds 
from South America have unspotted wings, the other seventeen have the wings all 
more or less spotted, and are thus not distinguishable from the northern birds. As the 
character thus breaks down dividing these birds we are unable to discriminate more 
than one species, to which the old name Ceryle superciliosa is applicable. There 
appears to be no break whatever in the range of the species, as it is found, though 
sparingly, in every river and stream of the lowlands of Tropical America. In Mexico 
it has been found in several places in the southern portion of the State of Vera Cruz 
and also on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. In Guatemala we found it close to the 
shore of the Pacific at the mouth of the Rio Samala, and also at Choctum, one of the 
favourite hunting-resorts of the bird-collectors of Coban, in the interior of Vera Paz, 
at an elevation of about 1200 feet above the sea. It has also been met with in all the 
other Central-American States and in the State of Panama, both on the Line of 
Railway as well as on the Isthmus of Darien. 
In habits this species has no peculiarities that we know of to distinguish it from the 
other species of Ceryle inhabiting the same districts. 
