104 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ZOOLOGY, VOL. XIII. 



14: British Guiana 2; Dutch Guiana i; Brazil 4 (Rio Branco, 

 Conceicao, Amazonas, Quixada and Ceara) ; Tobago Island 3 ; Colombia 

 2 and Venezuela 2. a 



*Chloroceryle americana isthmica (Goldman). ISTHMIAN GREEN 

 KINGFISHER. 



Ceryle americana isthmica GOLDMAN, Smith. Misc. Coll., 56, 1911, p. I (Rio Indio, 



Canal Zone, Panama). 

 Chloroceryle americana isthmica RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 



1914, p. 428. 



Range: Southern Mexico (Chiapas) to eastern Panama. 



1 1 2 : Guatemala 5 ; Nicaragua 3 ; Costa Rica 3 ; and Panama i . 



*Chloroceryle americana septentrionalis (Sharpe). TEXAN GREEN 

 KINGFISHER. 



Ceryle americana B. septentrionalis SHARPE, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 



pp. VIII and 134 (Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico). b 

 Chloroceryle americana septentrionalis RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 



VI, 1914, P- 431. 



Range: Mexico (except state of Chiapas) and adjacent border of 

 United States (Texas and Arizona). 



8: Mexico (Tamaulipas, Yucatan and Vera Cruz). 



*Chloroceryle americana cabanisi (Tschudi). CABANIS'S GREEN KING- 

 FISHER. 



Alcedo cabanisi TSCHUDI, Faun. Peruan, 1846, p. 253 (Peru). 

 Ceryle cabanisi SHARPE, Mon. Akedinidae, 1868, p. 87, part, pi. 25; Id., Cat. 

 Bds. Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, p. 134, part. 



Range : Peru. 

 3: Peru. 



Chloroceryle americana viridis ( Vieilloi). SOUTHERN GREEN KING- 

 FISHER. 



Alcedo viridis VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XIX, 1818, p. 413, based on 

 Martin-piscador verde oscuro Azara Apunt. Parag., Ill, p. 389 (Los Pajaros 

 del Paraguay). 



Chloroceryle americana viridis RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 

 p. 423, (footnote). 



Ceryle americana CHUBB, Ibis, 1910, p. 265 (Paraguay). 



Range: Paraguay and southern Brazil. 



Specimens from Venezuela and Colombia differ somewhat from birds from 

 Guiana and may prove separable subspecifically, but the material before me is not 

 sufficient to decide this question. The single specimen from Ceara, Brazil, is appar- 

 ently intermediate between americana and viridis. 



b See Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 430, footnote. 



c Decidedly larger and markings averaging somewhat heavier. 



