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[Chloroceryle] superciliosa Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 



164 (Guiana). 

 [Amazonis] superciliosa Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854,320 (Consp. Volucr. 



Anisod., 1854, 10). 

 [Ceryle] stictoptera (not C. superciliosa stictoptera Ridgway) Sharpe, Hand-list, 



ii, 1900, 50, part (Panama). 

 Ceryle superciliosa stictoptera (not of Ridgway) Bangs, Auk, xviii, 1901, 359 



(Divala, Panama). 



CHLOROCERYLE ^ffiNEA STICTOPTERA (Ridgway). 



SCHOTT'S KINGFISHER. 



Similar to C. a?, senea but slightly larger, with buff or white spots 

 on secondaries much larger, forming distinct bands across closed 

 wing, and with concealed portion of feathers of back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts extensively white. 



^(^wZ^ maZe.— Length (skins), 131-140 (136); wiag, 57.5-59 (58.3); 

 tail, 35-39.5 (37.1); culmen, 30.5-34 (32.4) ; tarsus, 7-8 (7.4); middle 

 toe, 8.5-9 (8.9).« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 122.5-144.5 (133); wing, 60; tail, 

 34-39 (36.5); culmen, 30-34.5 (32); tarsus, 7.5-8 (7.7); middle toe, 

 9-9.5 (9.2) .«» 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (San Andres Tuxtla; 

 Playa Vicente; Buena Vista; Pasa Nueva), Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia; 

 Omealca; Chimalapa), Yucatan (Sisal; Rio Lagartos; Cozumel 

 Island), Campeche (Jaina), and Chiapas (Huehuetan), and south- 

 ward through Guatemala (Lake Peten; mouth of Rio Salama; Choc- 

 ttim; Santa Cruz; San Jos6), Honduras (San Pedro; Julian), and 

 Nicaragua (Rio Escondido; Grenada) to northeastern Costa Rica 

 (Rio Frio). 



Ceryle superciliosa (not Alcedo superciliosa Linnaeus) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lend., 1857, 227 (San Andres Tuxtla, Vera Cruz; crit.); 1859, 387 (Playa 

 Vicente, Vera Cruz). — Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 53 (Lake Peten, 

 Guatemala). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 131 (Pacific coast distr., Gua- 

 temala; crit.). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1869, 204 (Sisal, Yucatan); 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 30 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca).— Sumi- 

 chrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H.,i, 1869, 560 (tierra caliente of Vera Cruz). — 

 BoucARD, Liste Ois. r^col. Gnat., 1878, 26 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1883, 453 (Rio Lagartos, Yucatan). — Salvin, Ibis, 1889, 371 (Cozumel 

 I., Yucatan); 1890, 88 (Cozumel I.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, ii, 1895, 478, part (Uvero, etc.. Vera Cruz; Omealca, Chimalapa, etc., 

 Oaxaca; Sisal, etc., Yucatan; Peten, Choctum, and mouth of Rio Salama, 

 Guatemala; San Pedro, Honduras; Rio Escondido, Nicaragua; Rio Frio, 

 Costa Rica).— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 220 (San 

 Jos6, Guatemala). 



[Ceryle] superciliosa Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 98, no. 1193, part. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 103, part. 



C[hloroceryle\ superciliosa Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 176 ("City of 

 Mexico " — error). 



« Seven specimens. b Three specimens. 



