Order CORACIIFORMES. 



Suborder STEATORNITHES. 

 Family STEATORNITHID^. The Oil Birds. 



Genus STEATORNIS Humbold. 



Steatornis Humbold, Recueil Obs. de Zool. et d'Anat. Comp., II, 1817, p. 141 

 (Type Steatornis caripensis Humbold). 



*Steatornis caripensis Humbold. OIL BIRD. 



Steatornis caripensis HUMBOLD, Recueil Obs. de Zool. et d'Anat. Comp., II, 1817, 

 p. 141 (Caripe, Venezuela); HARTERT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, 

 p. 653; CHUBB, Bds. Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, p. 342. 



Range: Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad Island, Guiana and east 

 Ecuador. 

 10: Trinidad 8; and Colombia 2. 



Steatornis caripensis peruvianus* Tacz. PERUVIAN OIL BIRD. 



Steatornis caripensis var. peruviana TACZANOWSKI, Orn. Perou, I, 1884, p. 199 



(Tingo Maria, Dep. Huanaco). 

 [Steatornis] peruvianus BRABOURNE and CHUBB, Bds. S. Am., I, 1912, p. 94, 



No. 894. 



Range: Peru. 



Suborder ALCYONES. 

 Family ALCEDINID^E. Kingfishers. 



Genus STREPTOCERYLE Bonaparte.* 



Streptoceryle Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, II, 1854, p. 320 (Type Alcedo torquata 

 Linn.). 



*Streptoceryle torquata torquata (Linn.}. GREAT-RINGED KINGFISHER. 

 Alcedo torquata LINN., Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1766, p. 180 (Mexico). 



Steatornis caripensis peruvianus TACZ. : Similar to S. c. caripensis HUMBOLD in 

 coloration, but size smaller and the tail more tapering. 



b Mr. W. De W. Miller considers Streptoceryle BONAPORTE, 1854, to be insepa- 

 rable from Megaceryle KAUP, 1848 (cf. Class. Kingfishers, Bull. Am. Mus., N. H., 

 XXXI, 1912, p. 265). 



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