BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



431 



[Ceryle] septentrionalis Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 50, part. 

 Ceryle americana isthmica Goldman, Smithson. Misc. Coll., 56, no. 27, Dec. 1, 

 1911, 1 (Rio Indio (near Gatun), Canal Zone, Panama; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



CHLOROCERYLE AMERICANA SEPTENTRIONALIS (Sharpe). 



TEXAN GREEN KINGFISHER. 



Similar to C. a. isthmica but larger; white of throat encroaching 

 more on upper chest; blackish submalar stripe or streak less distinct 

 (often obsolete) ; secondaries much more distinctly spotted with white; 

 under parts usually less heavily, or less extensively, spotted, and 

 fore part of pileum usually streaked with whitish, this often form- 

 ing a more or less distinct supraloral line. 



Adult male. —Length (skins), 182-203 (192); wing, 80-88 (83.6); 

 tail, 56.5-61.5 (58.1); exposed cuhnen, 43-50.5 (47.4); tarsus, 

 9-10 (9.5); middle toe, 11-12.5 (11.7).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 188-203 (196.8); wing, 83.5-90 

 (86); tail, 58-62 (59.9); exposed cuhnen, 41-50 (46.1); tarsus, 

 9-10.5 (9.6); middle toe, 11-13 (12.1).^ 



Southern Mexico, in States of Tabasco (Teapa), Yucatan, etc., north- 

 ward over the whole of Mexico (except higher elevations and unwatered 

 districts) to southern border of United States (Texas to Arizona); 



o Twenty-three specimens. 



& Fifteen specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Six adtilt males from Texas 



Seven adult males from Nuevo Leon (6) and n. Tamaulipas (1) 

 Three adult males from Vera Cruz (2) and s. Tamaulipas (1) . . . 



Four adult males from Jalisco (2) and Colima (2) 



Two adult males from Oaxaca 



One adult male from Tabasco 



One adult male from Guatemala ( C. a. isthmica) 



Three adult males from Honduras (C.a. isthmica) 



Two adult males from Nicaragua ( C. a. isthviica) 



Three adult males from Costa Rica ( C. a. isthmica) 



Three adult males from w. Panama ( C. a. isthmica) 



Ten adult males from Canal Zone, e. Panama ( C. a. isthmica) . . 



Four adult males from n. e. Colombia { C. a. ?) 



Four adult males from w. Colombia ( C. a. ?) 



Four adult males from Venezuela (C.a. ?) 



One adult male from Trinidad ( C. a. ?) 



Three adult males from Tobago ( C. a. f) 



Two adult males from British Guiana ( C. a. americana) 



One adult male from Diamantina, lower Amazon (C. a. 



americana f) 



Five adult males from s. e. Brazil ( C. a. f) 



One adult male from Paraguay ( C. a. viridis) 



One adult male from Uruguay (C.a. viridis) 



One adult male from Chauchamoyo, e. Peru ( C. a. ?) .... 



