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[Alcedo] bicolor Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 451 (bat-'ed on Martin-pechcur 



verdet roux de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 592). — -Latham, Index Om., 



i, 1790, 258. 

 Alcedo bicolor Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 69. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 



Nat., xix, 1818, 414 (Cayenne). — Bonnaterre and Vieillot, Enc. M6th., 



i, 1823, 290.— Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 242. 

 A[lcedo] bicolor Maximilian, Beitrag. Naturg. Bras., iv, 1832, 23.— Cabanis, in 



Schomburgk's Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 704. 

 Ceryle bicolor Kaup, Verh. naturhist. Vereins Hessen, ii, 1848, 68 (Fam. Eisv., 



1848, 8).— Pelzeln, Sitz. Ak. Wien, 1856, 515; Orn. Bras., i. abth., 1868, 23. 

 [Ceryle] bicolor Boie, Isie, 1828, 316.— Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, IGO.— 



Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., iv. abth., 1871, 404. 

 C[hloroceryle] bicolor Reichenbach, Handb., Alced., 1851, 28, pL 414, figs. 3118, 



3119. 

 Chloroceryle fticoZor Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 406. 

 [Amazonis] bicolor Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 320 (Consp. Volucr. 



Anisod., 1854, 10). 

 {?)[Alcedo] maculata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 451 (based on Ispida bra- 



siliensis naevia Brisson, Orn., iv, p. 524, no. 25, etc). — ^Latham, Index Om., 



i, 1790, 258.— Bonnaterre and Vieillot, Enc. M6th., i, 1823, 293. 



CHLOROCERYLE ^NEA iENEA (Pallas). 



LEAST GREEN KINGFISHER. 



Adult male. — Above, including sides of head, dark metallic green, 

 darker and less glossy on pileum, the scapulars (especially the pos- 

 terior ones) with concealed portion extensively white; outer webs of 

 secondaries with distinct (though small) spots of buff or buffy wliite; 

 primaries dull black or slate-black; tail dark metallic green, bluish 

 green, or greenish blue-black, the inner webs of rectrices (except 

 middle and outer pairs) with a greater or less number of white spots, 

 the three outer rectrices wholly white basally, the fourth partly so; 

 an elongated supraloral spot of ochraceous-buff ; an indistinct whitish 

 mark beneath lower eyelid; malar region and sides of neck clear 

 orange-tawny, fadmg on chia and throat into orange-buff, deepening 

 on lower foreneck, chest, sides of breast, sides, and flanks into bright, 

 deep, orange-rufous or rufous-chestnut; median portion of breast, 

 abdomen, anal region, and under wuig-co verts immaculate white; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts clear ochraceous-buff or orange- 

 buff; inner webs of secondaries mostly white or pale buff; bill black, 

 the basal portion of gonys light colored (pinkish or flesh colored in 

 life) ; U'is dark brown ; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins) ; length 

 (skins), 120-145 (132); wing, 54.5-59 (57); tail, 31.5-36.5 (35.1); 

 culmen, 26-36 (31); tarsus, 6.5-8 (7.2); inner anterior toe, 7.5-9.5 

 (8.1).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but orange-tawny of 

 foreneck separated from the deep orange-rufous or rufous-chestnut 



a Twenty-two specimens. 



