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bb. Smaller (wing 54.5-60, tail 31.5-39.5, culmen 26-36); abdomen, lower breast, 



and vmder tail-coverts white, in strong contrast with orange-chestnut of other 



under parts. {Chloroceryle senea.) 



c. Smaller (wing averaging 57 in male, 59.3 in female); white or buffy spots on 



secondaries smaller; feathers of back, rump, etc., less extensively white 



basally. (Costa Rica to southern Brazil, Bolivia, etc.a) 



Chloroceryle senea senea (p. 437). 



cc. Larger (wing averaging 58.3 in male, 60 in female); white or buffy spots on 



secondaries larger, forming distinct bars or narrow bands; feathers of back, 



rump, etc., more extensively white basally. (Nicaragua to Vera Cruz, 



Mexico) Chloroceryle senea stictopteia (p. 440). 



CHLOROCERYLE AMAZONA (Latham). 



AMAZON KINGFISHER. 



Adult male. — Above, including loral, orbital, and auricular regions, 

 together with upper and anterior portions of malar region, dark 

 metallic bronze-green, interrupted by a broad collar of white across 

 hindneck, the scapulars with much concealed white on underlying 

 portion; inner webs of rectrices with transverse spots or short bars 

 of white, not reaching to shafts, the outer web of one or more 

 lateral rectrices (on each side) usually also with white spots or bars ; 

 a crescentic mark of white immediately beneath eye and usually 

 a more or less distinct supraloral streak of white, but the latter fre- 

 quently obsolete; lower and posterior portions of malar region, chin, 

 throat, upper foreneck, lower breast, sides, flanks, abdomen, under tail- 

 coverts, under wing-coverts, and much of inner webs of remiges, white ; 

 a more or less distinct (usually interrupted) submalar streak of dark 

 metallic bronze-green, sometimes confluent with a longitudinal 

 (sometimes broken) area of the same color on sides of foreneck and 

 chest; sides and flanks broadly striped with dark metallic green or 

 bronze-green ; lower foreneck, chest, and upper breast deep cinnamon- 

 rufous or rufous-chestnut (the feathers white or nearly so beneath 

 surface) , sometimes (in younger individuals ?) intermixed with dark 

 metallic bronze-green and white; bill black, usually pale colored on 

 basal portion of gonys; iris dark brown ;^ legs and feet black ;^ 

 length (skins), 265-325 (270); wmg, 125.5-141 (134); tail, 68.5-85 

 (76.6); exposed culmen, 65.5-76 (69.6); tarsus, 11-13.5 (12.3); mid- 

 dle toe, 15-19 (17).'' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but without any cinnamon- 

 rufous or rufous-chestnut on under parts, this replaced by pure white 

 on median portion and dark metalUc bronze-green on lateral portions, 

 the latter color sometimes extending across the posterior portion of 



a I am not sure that specimens from all parts of the South American range of the 

 species should be referred to true C. senea, but the material available is very scant and 

 by no means sufficient to afford a satisfactory solution of the problem. 



& According to Sumichrast. 



c Thirty specimens. 



