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Ceryle americana cabanisi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 190; 

 Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 383.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 424. 



C[eryle] americana cabanisi Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 470. 



Ceryle cabansi Bailey (H. H.), Auk., xxiii, 1906, 388 (San Bias, Tepic). 



[Ceryle americana.] Subsp. /?. Ceryle septentrionalis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xvii, 1892, 134, part (no type nor type locality designated; but type 

 said to be Teapa, Tabasco). a 



[Ceryle americana] ^. septentrionalis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 

 p.viii. 



Ceryle americana septentrionalis American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, X, 1893, 61; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 391; 3d ed., 1910, p. 184.— 

 Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1895, 39, pi. 1, fig. 4 (egg). — Bailey 

 (Florence M.), Handb. Bii-ds W. U. S., 1902, 199.— Miller (W. DeW.), 

 Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 351 (Arroyo de Limones and Escuinapa 

 Sinaloa); xxii, 1906, 164 (Rosario, Santuario, Las Bocas, and Rio Sestin, 

 Durango). — Lacey, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 209 (Kerrville, Texas, common, 

 breeding; descr. nest). 



C[eryle] a[mericana] septentrionalis Goldman, Smithson. Miss., Coll. 56, no. 27, 

 Dec. 1, 1911, 1 (crit.). 



Ceryle septentrionalis Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 60, 

 Oct., 1895, 476, part (Texas to Arizona; "Lower California"; Hermosillo, 

 Sonora; Isleta, Mazatlan, and Presidio de Mazatlan, Sinaloa; San Bias, 

 Tepic; Colotan, Aguas CaKentes; Guanajuato; Guadalajara, Jalisco; Rio 

 Tupila, etc., Colima; Rio Salado, Nuevo Leon; Sierra Madre near Victoria, 

 Aldema, and Tampico, Tamaulipas; Valles, San Luis Potosi; Misantla, 

 Vega del Casadero, Jalapa, Coatepec, Santa Ana, Rio Rancho Nuevo, Haci- 

 enda Tortugas, Orizaba, Cordova, Atoyac, and Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz, 

 Valley of ^lexico; Morelia, Cliietla, etc., Puebla; Sola, Juchetengo, Oaxaca 

 City, Chiliuitan, Tapanatepec, Chimalapa, SieiTade Santo Domingo, Tehuan- 

 tepec, etc., Oaxaca; Teapa, Tabasco; Yucatan). 



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



CHLOROCERYLE INDA (Linnaeus). 



GREEN AND RITFOUS KINGFISHER. 



Adult male. — Above dark metallic bronze-green, darker and duller 

 on pileum (sometimes approaching sooty blackish on forehead and 

 anterior portion of crown) , the forehead sometimes (in younger indi- 

 viduals ?) minutely flecked or speckled with pale brownish buffy or 

 dull whitish; scapulars and interscapulars with much concealed white 

 on basal portion or white spotting on middle portion of feathers; 

 outer webs of secondaries with a few small white spots along edge, 

 the wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts sometimes also 

 minutely speckled with whitish; inner webs of rectrices with trans- 

 verse spots, or short bars, of white near edge, the outer webs also 

 sometimes with similar but very much smaller white markmgs; chin 

 very pale orange-buff or white tinged with orange-buff, the throat 

 similar but feathers tipped with deeper orange-buff or orange-rufous 

 (the feathers paler beneath surface, passing into white basally), the 



« Mr. C. Chubb, in letter to E. A. Goldman. 



