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near Ties Zapotes. On April 13 I shot a laying female from a pair 

 on the Arroyo Tepanaguasapan in the region known as Para Madera. 

 Carriker secured one on March 5, 1940, and recorded them on the 

 Rio Papaloapan below Tlacotalpam. 



CHLOROCERYLE AMAZONA MEXICANA Brodkorb 



Chloroceryle amazona mexicana Brodkorb, Auk, 1940, p. 543 (Barra de Cahua- 

 can, Chiapas). 



These kingfishers were fairly common along the main channels of 

 the San Agustin and Papaloapan, between Boca San Miguel and 

 Tlacotalpam, and were found in smaller number along the arroyo 

 at Tres Zapotes, as well as around the lagoons. From the latter 

 they ranged out through the flooded lands in the swampy woods 

 after rains. I secured one on March 27, 1939, and Carriker took 

 another on March 7, 1940. 



CHLOROCERYLE AMERICANA SEPTENTRIONALIS (Sharpe) : Texas Kingfisher 



Ceryle septentrionaUs Sharpe, Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, 

 vol. 17, 1892, p. 134 (Teapa, Tabasco). 



Carriker secured specimens near Tres Zapotes on March 26 and 

 May 2 and 3, 1940, along the arroyo, and recorded it as the most 

 common kingfisher of the region. In 1939 I noted it only along 

 the Rio San Agustin near Boca San Miguel. 



CHLOROCERYLE AENEA STICTOPTERA (Ridgway) 



Ceryle supereiliosa stictoptera Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 2, 

 April 10, 1884, p. 95 (Sisal, Yucatan). 



Carriker secured a male along a small stream east of Tres Zapotes 

 in rather heavy woodland. The wing measures 56.4 mm. 



Family MOMOTIDAE 



MOMOTUS LESSONII LESSONII Lesson 



Momotus Lessonii Lesson, Rev. Zool., vol. 5, June 1842, p. 174 (Realejo, Nic- 

 aragua). 



Lesson's motmot, known as pdjaro coo from its call, was fairly 

 common near Tres Zapotes but was so unexpectedly shy that I did 

 not see one often. Though I heard their curious call of hoo hoot 

 occasionally in the forest near camp, they seemed most common near 

 the Arroyo del Sitio, where I shot a male on March 24, 1939. They 

 perched nearly always behind a screen of leaves and usually flew 

 before I caught sight of them. Carriker obtained specimens at Tres 

 Zapotes on February 27, near Hueyapa on March 7 and 27, and. on 

 Cerro de Tuxtla on March 11 and May 10, 1940 They ranged at 

 least to 3,000 feet on Volcan San Martin. 



