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El Pozo del Rio Grande; El Pozo de Terraba) to Panama (Lion Hill; 

 Frijole; Paraiso; San Pablo; Rio Gatun; Divala, Chiriqui; Castillo, San- 

 tiago, Calovevora, and Chitra, Veragua) ; nearly the whole of South 

 America, south to Uruguay (Concepcion; Santa Ana Sauce; Santa 

 Elena Sauce; Rio Monzon) ; Paraguay (Lambare; VUla Concepcion; 

 Tayra), Argentina (Cordova; Santa Ana; lower Rio Pilcomayo; 

 Barracas al Sud; Tucuman), Bolivia (Chiquitos; lower Rio Beni; 

 San Luis), and Peru (Pebas; Rio Ucayali; Huallaga Valley; Santa 

 Cruz; Sarayacu; Amable Maria; La Merced; Rio Cadena, Cuzco). 



[Alcedo] amazona Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 257 (Cayenne; based on Ama- 

 zonian Kingfisher Latham, Suppl. Synopsis Birds, 1787, 116). 



Alcedo amazona Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xix, 1818, 399 (Guiana). — 

 BoNNATERRE and Vieillot, Enc. Meth., i, 1823, 292. — Hartlaub, Index 

 Azara's Apunt., 1847, 26. — Tschudi, Wiegmann's Archiv fiir Naturg., 1844, 

 39; Fauna Peruana, Aves, 1844-46, 253. — Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. 

 Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 704. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, no. 17, 1863, 5; 

 no. 39 (Rev. Grit.), 1874, 2. 



A[lcedo'\ amazona Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 12 (Brazil). — Maximilian, 

 Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, 1832, 12. 



{Ceryle\ amazona Boie, Isis, 1828, 316. 



C[erylc\ amazona Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 82. 



Ceryle amazona Gray, List Fissirostr. Birds Brit. Mus., 1848, 61. — Cassin, Cat. 

 Halcyon. Mus. Phila. Acad., 1852, 3 (Puente Nacional, Mexico; Surinam; 

 Brazil; Rio de la Plata); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 133 (Rio Nercua, 

 n. Colombia). — Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1859, 53 (Omoa, Honduras). — 

 Pelzeln, Sitz. Ak. Wien, 1856, 515; Orn. Bras., i. Abth., 1868, 23.— Sclater 

 and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 131 (Guatemala; Lake Yojoa, Honduras); Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 978 (Pebas, Peru); 1869, 252 (Venezuela); 1870, 781 

 (Merida, Venezuela); 1873, 292 (Nauta, Rio TJcayali, Santa Cruz, and 

 Huallaga Valley, e. Peru; whole Amazon Valley; habits; descr. nest and 

 eggs); 1875, 237 (San Cristobal, Venezuela); 1879, 534 (Nichi, Colombia), 

 632 (Chiquitos, Bolivia). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 290 (Lion 

 Hill, Panama); ix, 1868, 118 (Costa Rica); Mem. Best. Soc. N. H., ii, 

 1874, 290 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Rio Tupila, Colima); Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., no. 4, 1876, 30 (Chihuitan and Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). — Leo- 

 taud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 111. — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1867, 152 (Santiago de Veragua, Panama); 1870, 201 (Calovevora and 

 Chitra, Veragua, Panama); Ibis, 1886, 60 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, 

 and Merume Mts., Brit. Guiana). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 

 311 (Costa Rica).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 129 (San 

 Bias, Tepic; Teapa, Tabasco; La Antigua, Vega de Casadero, Santa Ana, 

 and Plan del Rio, Vera Cruz; Cayo, Brit. Honduras; San Geronimo and Vera 

 Paz, Guatemala; Honduras; Paraiso, Lion Hill, and Veragua, Panama; 

 etc.).— FiNscH, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem., 1870, 328 (Mazatlan).— Reinhardt, 

 Ved. Med. Nat. Forh., 1870, 124 (Brazil).— Lee, Ibis, 1873, 133 (Rio Gato, 

 Argentina). — Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1873, 270 (Santa Catarina, s. e. 

 Brazil; synonymy; geog. range; etc.); 1887, 22 (Lambar^, Paraguay), 121 

 (Paraguay); 1889, 308 (Sarayacu, n. e. Peru); Novit. Zool., xv, 1908, 275 

 (Cayenne).— Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, 547 (Amable 

 Maria, Peru; crit.); Orn. du Perou, iii, 1886, 102.— Allen, Bull. Essex 

 Inst., viii, 1876, 80 (Santarem, Brazil); Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 101 

 (lower Rio Beni, Bolivia); v, 1893, 125 (Chapada, Mattogrosso, s. w. Brazil); 



