892 



NORTU AMERICAN BIRDS. 



the preceding. Bill long, tliin. Tarsi longer than hind toe; almost or quite as 

 long as the inner anterior. Plumage with a green metallic gloss above; the 

 occiput with a crest of rather short, indistinct leathers. Type, A. amazona. 



The genus Ceryle was established by Boie on the Alccdo rudis, of Linnaeus, 



an African species. JMoilcni systeniatists separate the American Kingfisliers 

 from those of the Old World, and if correct in so doing, another generic 



1640 



Cen/Jf atcyon. 



name must be selected for the former. If the two American sections be 

 combined into one, Chlorocerylc of Kaup (type, Alccdo amazona) must be 

 taken as being the older, unless, indeed, Ispida of Swainson (1837) be 

 admissible. This apjieai-s to liave lieen based on Alccdo alcyon, although 

 including also some Old World species. 



Ceryle alcyon, P.nrE. 



BELTED KINGFISHER. 



Akedn aJq/nn, LiNN^us, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, ISO. — 'WlLsox, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, .50. — 

 AliDunoN, Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 384 ; pi. lx.xvii. — Ib. Birds America. — JIax. Cah. .1. 

 VI, 1858, 102. Ccrijh alcyon, BoiE, Isis, 1828, 316. — Brewer, N. Am. Oology, I, 

 1857, 110, pi. iv, fig. 52 (egg). — Wood, Am. Naturalist, 1868, 379 (nesting). — B.vird, 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 158. — Cooper & Sucklet, 167. — Dall & Banni.stee, Ch. 

 Ac. I, i, 1869, 275 (Alaska). — Finsch, Abh. Nat. Ill, 1872, 29 (Alaska). — Samuels, 

 125. — Cooper, Cm. Cal. I, 1870, 337. — Allex, B. Fla. 300. Mcgaccrylc alajon, 

 Eeichenb. Handb. Sp. Orn. I, II, 1851, 25, pi. ccccxii, fig. 3108-9. Ispida ludovid- 

 ana, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 452. "Alcedo jaguacaie, DuMONT, Diet. Sc. Nat. 

 I, 1816, 455 " (Cassix). "Alccdo gtmcu, Tieiu.ot, Nouv. Diet. XIX, 1818, 406," 

 (Cassin). Slreptoccrylc alcyon, Cabanis, Mus. Hein. II, 151. 



Sp. Char. Head with a long crest. Above ashy-blue, without metallic lustre. Beneath, 

 with a concealed band across the occiput, and a spot anterior to the eye, pure white. 

 A band across the breast, and the sides of tlie body under the wings, like the back. 



