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Hacienda Tortugas ; Atoydc ; Playa Vicente. Oaxaca: Santa Efigenia ; 

 Oaxaca; Tehuantepec; Tiixtepec; Tapanatepec; Chihuitan; Sola; 

 Juchatengo; Chimalapa; Sierra de Santo Domingo. Colima: Plains 

 of Colima; Rio Tupila. Tabasco: Teapa. Yucatan. Stated to occur 

 in Lower California by Salvin and Godman, who erroneously cite 

 as authority for the record "History of North American Birds"; but 

 reference to that work shows that no mention whatever is made of 

 Lower California in the account of this species.) 



Ceryle americana (not Alccdo americana Gmelin) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 V, 1852, 118 (Rio Grande, Texas). — ^Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves's Expl. 

 Zuni and CoL R., 1852, 65 (Texas, "some tributaries of the Rio Grande"). — 

 Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1853, 327 (Rio Grande, Texas); 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 159 (Nueces and Devils rivers, w. Texas; 

 Nuevo Leon); Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 7, pi. 7 

 (w. Texas); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 118.— Cassin, Illustr. Birds Calif., 

 Tex., etc., 1855, 255.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1856, 286 (Cordova, 

 Vera Cruz); 1859, 53, 367 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — Brewer, N. Am. Oology, i, 

 1857, 3, pi. 4, fig. 53 (egg).— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 472 (Matamoras, Tamau- 

 lipas; Nueces R., Leona R., and Eagle Pass, Tex.). — Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. PMla., 1866,59 (Colorado R., between Ft. Yuma and Ft. Mojave); Ibis, 

 1866, 263 (Colorado R.).— Cooper, Om. Calif., 1870, 339. 



Ceryle {Chloroceiyle) americana Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, p. xxix. 



Chloroceryle americana Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 312. 



Ceryle cahanisii (not Alcedo ca6anm Tscbudi) Cassin, Cat. Halcyonidse Mus. Phila. 

 Acad., 1852, 3, part (Mexico). 



Ceryle cabanisi Sharpe, Mon. Alced., 1868, 87, part. — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1883, 453 (Yucatan). — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 

 1886, 161 (Chietla and Izucar de Matamoras, Puebla; Jalapa, Vera Cruz).^ 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 391, part. — • 

 Hancock, Bull. Ridgw. Om. Club., no. 2, 1887, 16 (Corpus Christi, Texas, 1 

 spec, March 16). — Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 190 (Nueces and Frio Canons, 

 Edwards Co., Texas).— Beckham, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 663 (San 

 Antonio and Corpus Christi, Texas). — Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val.,, 1888 

 127 (Mason, Edwards, and Comal counties, Texas). — Attwater, Auk, ix, 

 1892, 234 (San Antonio, Texas, resident). 



[Ceryle] cabanisi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 103, part. 



C[eryle] cabanisi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 279, part. 



C[hloroceryle] cabanisi Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein, ii, 1860, 147, excl. syn. 

 part (Mexico). 



Chloroceryle cabanisi Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 265 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 176 (near City of Mexico). 



[Chloroceryle] cabanisi Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 164 

 (Mexico). 



[Ceryle] americana var. cabanisii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 188. 



Ceryle americana . . . var. cabanisi Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 287. 



Ceryle americana, var. cabanisi Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 396, part, pi. 45, fig. 9.— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 ii, 1874, 290 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Tepic; Plains of Colima and Tupila R., 

 Colima; habits); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 30 (Santa Efigenia, 

 Oaxaca).— Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 142 (Ft. Brown, Texas, 

 May-Oot.).— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, iv, 1879, 79 (Comal Co., 

 Texas; descr. nest and eggs). 

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