1^2 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies, 



Bucco cayennensls Salle (P. Z. S. 1S57. p. 234), from 

 San Domingo, it is impossible to identify, as Salle gives no 

 description, and the genus does not occur in the West Indies. 



Family ALCEDINID.-E. 



Genus Ceryle Boie. 

 Ceryle Boie, Isis, 182S, p. 316. 



Ceryle stictipennis Lawr. 



Ceryle torquata Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 459, 487 (1S78). — Cory, 

 List Bds. W. L p. 19 (1885). 



Ceryle stictipennis Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII, p. 623 (18S5). 



'■^Alale. — The upper plumage is ashj-blue, with a broad, pure 

 white band across the hind neck, connecting with the white of the 

 throat; lores black ; a spot of white anterior to the eje, and another 

 of the same color below it ; the upper tail-coverts are colored like 

 the back, and are barred on both webs with white; the two middle 

 tail feathers are also colored like the back ; the shafts are black, 

 bordered narrowly on each side with deep black; thej are conspic- 

 uously marked with triangular-shaped white spots on the middle of 

 each web, these are nine in number on each side ; the other tail 

 feathers are black, with their outer edges colored like the back, and 

 having pure white spots rounded in form on each web, those on the 

 inner webs are much the largest; all the tail feathers are tipped with 

 white ; the quills are black, largely white on their inner webs and 

 marked on the primaries with quadrate white spots on the outer ones, 

 rather far apart; the secondaries have also small white spots on 

 their outer webs, and on the inner webs large round spots, the outer 

 webs are margined with ashy-blue ; the tertiaries are largely ash- 

 blue on their outer webs, spotted and barred with white, the inner 

 webs are brownish-black and marked with large spots of white; the 

 wing-coverts are like the back in color, the larger ones are sparsely 

 marked with small white spots; the scapulars are narrowly barred 

 witliAvhite; the under wing-coverts are white, largely intermixed 

 with cinnamon color ; the throat is white ; the lower part of the reck, 

 the breast, and the abdomen are of a very dark cinnamon color; the 

 lower part of the abdomen, the flanks, crissum and under tail-coverts 

 are white, closely spotted and barred with rather dull ashy-blue; 

 the tarsi and toes are dark brown ; the bill is black, with the basal 

 half of the under mandible yellow. 



'"Length, fresh, 17 inches; wing, 7^; tail, 5^ ; bill, 3. 



