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KEY AND DESCRIPTION 



Belted Kingfisher 



often be heard. When watching for fish, which form its only 

 food, it sits on some support projecting over the water and can 



readily be recognized 

 by the large, crested 

 head and short tail. 



Length, 11-141 ; wing, 

 G\ (C-6.1) ; tail, '4; cul- 

 n]en,2. Throughout 

 North America; breeding 

 from the soutliern border 

 of tlie United States, and 

 wintering from tlie Mid- 

 dle States to ranama. 



2. Texas Kingfisher 

 (391. Cen/Ie ameri- 

 ahia septentrionillis). 

 — A small, bronze-green kingfisher with the collar and belly 

 white. The female has the green band across the breast re- 

 placed by a rufous one. 



Length, 8; wing, 3\ ; tail, 2J ; culmen, IJ. Southern Texas to 

 Panama. 



FAMILY XXIV. TROGONS (TRUGONID.E) 



A family (50 species) of brilliantly colored, tropical birds 

 represented in southern Texas by the following : 



1. Coppery-tailed Trogon (380. Troffon amblfjitns). — A beauti- 

 ful, long-tailed, red-bellied bird, with the back and breast golden- 

 green, face black, and a white collar between the carmine belly 

 and the golden-green of the throat. Bill serrated.' The middle 

 tail feathers of coppery -green give the species its name. 



Length, U\; wing, 5] ; tail, 7; culmen, i. Southern and Central 

 Mexico, north to southern Texas. 



FAMILY XXV. CUCKOOS, ANIS, ETC. (CUCULID^) 



This large, tropical family (200 species) of birds includes 

 species of various forms, colors, and habits, so that it has been 

 separated into about ten subfamilies. All have two toes in 



