ORDER CORACIIFORMES. 185 



Order CORACIIFORMES. Kingfishers, Motmots, 

 Rollers, Bee-eaters, and Hornbills. 



Suborder ALCEDINES. Kingfishers. 



SuPERFAMiLY ALCEDINOIDEA. Kingfishers. 



Family ALCEDINIDAE. Kingfishers. 



Subfamily CERYLINAE. Typical Kingfishers. 



Genus MEGACERYLE Kaup. 



Megaceryle Kaup, Verh. naturhist. Vereins Hessen, II, 1848, 68. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Alcedo guttata Vigors = Ceryle guttulata Stejneger 

 (Sharpe, 1871). [Gray, 1855, designated Alcedo maxima as type of 

 Megaceryle Reichenbach, 1851, but not of Kaup, 1848.] 



Subgenus STREPTOCERYLE Bonaparte. 



Streptoceryle Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, II, No. 11, Aug., 1854, 320 (or 

 Consp. Volucr. Anisod., 1854, 10). Type, by subs, desig., Alcedo 

 torquata Linnaeus (Gray, 1855). 



Megaceryle alcyon alcyon (Linnaeus). Eastern Belted Kingfisher. [390.] 



Alcedo alcyo7i Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 115. Based on The 

 Kingfisher, Ispida Catesby, Carolina, I, 69. (in America = South 

 Carolina.) 



Range — Breeds from Mackenzie, northern Manitoba, central Quebec, 

 southern Labrador, and Newfoundland south to the southern border of United 

 States, and west to the base of the Rocky Mountains. Winters from British 

 Columbia, Nebraska, Ilhnois, Indiana, Ohio, and Virginia south to the West 

 Indies, Central America, Colombia, British Guiana, and Trinidad, and irreg- 

 ularly as far north as Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Ontario. Acci- 

 dental in Holland, Ireland, and the Azores. 



Megaceryle alcyon caurina (Grinnell) . Western Belted Kingfisher. [390a.] 



Ceryle alcyon caurina Grinnell, Univ. Cahf. Publ. Zool., V, No. 12, 

 March 5, 1910, 388. (Graveyard Point, Montague Island, Prince 

 WilUam Sound, Alaska.) 



