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form rufous ; outer webs of quills without white spotting at base. 

 Adult male : Lower tail-coverts and anal region pure white, and rufous 

 of belly covering breast, and reaching to white of throat. Adult female : 

 Lower tail-coverts and anal region rufous ; breast plumbeous-blue, usu- 

 ally bordered behind by white. Length about 15.50-17.00, wing about 

 7.50. Hab. Tropical America in general (except West Indies), north to 

 southern Mexico. 



C. torquata (Linn.). Great Rufous-bellied Kingfisher.^ 

 b'^. Wing less than 7.00, culmen less than 3.00; belly white ; outer webs of quills 

 spotted with white toward base. Adult male : Above bluish plumbeous, 

 the tail transversely spotted with white, and basal half of primai'ies 

 coarsely spotted with same ; a white spot on sides of forehead, above 

 lores ; lower parts pure white, interrupted by a broad band of bluish 

 plumbeous across breast ; white of throat encircling hind-neck. Adult 

 female: Similar to the male, but sides and flanks, and a more or less 

 strongly indicated (never complete?) band across belly, rufous. Young: 

 Similar to adult, but the male with the breast-band and sides tinged with 

 rusty. Length 11.00-14.50, wing 6.00-6.50, tail 3.80-4.30, culmen 2.00, 

 or more. Eggs 1.36 X 1-05. Hab. Whole of North America, and south 

 to Panama and the West Indies. 



390. C. alcyon (Linn.). Belted Kingfisher. 

 a?. Wing less than 4.00 ; tarsus longer than hind-toe, and almost as long as inner 



anterior toe ; plumage metallic greenish above. (Subgenus Chloroceryle 



Kaup.) 



Adult male : Above dark metallic bottle-greea, interrupted by a white collar 

 across hind-neck, the secondaries, primaries, and tail spotted with white, 

 in transverse series ; lower parts pure white, interrupted by a band of 

 dark metallic green across breast ; sides spotted with dark greenish, 

 these spots continued as an interrupted band across belly. Adult female : 

 Similar to the male, but green band across breast replaced by one of deep 

 rufous ; no green spots across belly. Young male : Similar to adult, but 

 breast more or less tinged with rusty. Length 6.75-8.50, wing 3.40- 

 3.50, tail 2.70-2.75, exposed culmen 1.65-1.85. Eggs .96 X -75. Hab. 

 Middle America and northwestern South America, north to south- 

 western border of United States (southei-n Texas to Arizona), south to 

 western Peru 391. C. cabanisi (Tschudi). Texan Kingfisher. 



1 Alcedo torquata Linn., S. N. ed. 12, i. 1766, 180. Ceryle torquata Bonap., P. Z. S. 1837, 108. 



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