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ZOOLOGY BIRDS. 



ORDER PICARIAE: PICARIAN BIRDS. 



FAM. ALCEDINIDAE: KINGFISHERS. 



CERYLE ALCYON (Linn.). 

 Belted Kingfisher. 



Alceclo cilcyon, LINN., Syst. Nat,, i, 176G, 180. WOODH., Sitgreave's Exp. Zufii & Col. 

 Riv., 1854, 65. 



Cerylc alcyon, NEWB., P. R. R. Rep., vi, 1857, 79. BD., Birds N. A., 1858, 158. HEERM , 

 P. R. It. Rep., x, pt. iv, 1859, 57. BD., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 

 ii, 1859, Birds, 7. GOOP. & SUCKL., P. R. R, Hep., xii, pt, ii, I860, 1C7. 

 UAYD., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xii, 1862, 157. GOUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1866, 59. GOOPEK, Birds Gal., i, 1870, 336. STEV., U. S. Geol. Surv. 

 Terr., 1870, 463 (Wyoming). ALLEN, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1872, 179. 

 COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 188. SNOW, Birds Kan., 1872, 6. AIKEN, 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xv, 1872, 206 (Colorado). MEEEIAM, U. S. Geol. 

 Surv. Terr., 1872, 692 (Wyoming). BD., BREW., & RIDG., N. A. Birds, ii, 

 1874, 392, pi. 45, f. 6. YARROW & HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, 

 WLeeler's Exped., 1874, 23. HENSHAW, An. Lye. Nat. Hist, N. Y., xi, 

 1874, 8. /</., An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 7. Id., 

 Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 87, 128. ALLEN, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist,, June, 1874, 32. COUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, U73. 



Quite common on the streams of Utah and Colorado, and an occasional 

 resident of the creeks and rivers in New Mexico and Arizona, when, as is 

 usually the case, these abound in the smaller species of fish. It follows the 

 streams up into the mountains, as I have occasionally seen it at an altitude 

 of about 8,000 feet, higher than which it probably rarely goes. 



