186 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Breeds from northern Alaska and Yukon Territory southwest of 

 the Rocky Mountains to San Diego County, California, and to Owens River 

 east of the southern Sierra Nevada. Winters from north-central California 

 and Idaho (casually) south throughout Lower Cahfornia and Arizona to 

 Sonera, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Durango. 



• Megaceryle torquatatorquata (Linnaeus). Ringed Kingfisher. [390.1.] 



Alcedo torquata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 180. Based mainly 

 on Le Martin-pescheur hupe du Mexique, Ispida Mexicana cristata 

 Brisson, Orn. IV, 518. (in Martinica, Mexico = Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds throughout most of Mexico, Central America, and South 

 America to Paraguay and Bolivia. Casual in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 

 Texas (Laredo, Texas ^), [Closely allied races occur in the Lesser Antilles and 

 South America.] 



Genus CHLOROCERYLE Kaup. 



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

 by subs, desig., Alcedo superciliosa Linnaeus =^. aenea Pallas 

 (Sharpe, 1871). 



Chloroceryle americana septentrionalis (Sharpe). Texas Kingfisher. [391.] 



Ceryle septentrionalis Sharpe, Catal. Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 134. 

 (Lower California south to Panama; southwestern U. S. =Teapa, 

 Tabasco, Mexico.) 



Range. — Along the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, as far as Valverde County 

 and north to Mason, Kerr, Bexar and Comal counties; also in southern Arizona 

 and southward throughout the mainland of Mexico to Yucatan. [Allied races 

 occur in tropical America.] 



1 Stone, Auk, XI, 1894, 177. 



