BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 411 



black streaks on pileum much broader, and wing-coverts (sometimes 

 feathers of other upper parts also) with distinct (sometimes quite 

 broad) mesial cuneate streaks of black. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male (as described) but 

 under wing-coverts wholly cinnamon-rufous, and white pectoral 

 band more distinct. 



Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Tampico; Alta Mira; Rio Mar- 

 tinez; Eio de la Cruz; Rio Corona), Nuevo Leon (Rio de Bo; Rio 

 Grande), Sinaloa (Mazatldn), Hidalgo (Re&l del Monte), Vera Cruz 

 (Jalapa; Tlalcotalp&m; Gutierrez Zamora; Paso de la Milpa; Vega de 

 Aletorre; Santa Ana; Rio Rancho Nuevo), Oaxaca (Chihuitan; Santa 

 Efigenia; Tuxtepec; Rincon Antonio), Tabasco (Teapa), and Chiapas 

 (Huehuetan; Tonala) and Territory of Tepic (San Bias), and south- 

 ward through Guatemala (Choctum; Pet en; Rio Dulce; Lanqum; 

 Huamachal; San Jose; Los Amates), Salvador, British Honduras 

 (Belize; Cayo); Honduras (Omoa; San Pedro; Rio Segovia), Nica- 

 ragua (Managua; Ometepe; Sucuya; San Juan del Sur; Momotombo; 

 Rio Escondido), Costa Rica (Rio Frio; Orosi; Navarro; Jimenez; 

 Guacimo; Agua Caliente; La Palma de Nicoya; Barranca de Punta 

 Arenas; Liberia; Pozo Aziil de Pirris; Paso Real; Pozo del Rio 

 Grande; Bolson) to Panama (Lion Hill; Divala, and Boqueron 

 Chiriqui; Rio Trinid&d; San Miguel Island), and southward over 

 greater part of South America, from Colombia to Trinidad, Guianas, 

 Paraguay (Asuncion; Tayru; Fuerte Olimpo), Uruguay (Concepcion; 

 Santa Elena), Argentina (Buenos Aires; Entre Rios; Lomas de 

 Zamora; Cordova; Estancia Espartilla; Santa Ana; Lules; Oran, 

 Salta; Tucuman; Mocovi, Chaco; Barracas al Sud; lower Rio Pil- 

 comayo), Bolivia (Reyes; Caiza; Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Chiquitos), 

 and Peru (Lima; Rio Rimac; Rio Cadena, Cuzco). 



[Alcedo] torquata Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 180 (Mexico, based on Le 

 Martin-pescheur hupe du Mexique Brisson, Orn., iv, 518, pi. 41, fig. 1). — 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 452.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 256. 



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

 Nat., xix, 1818, 399, part ("Louisiana"). — Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. 

 Vog., 1830, 1; Joiu-n. fiir Orn., 1863, 55 (Mexico).— Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 

 1831, 242.— Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 703.— 

 Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas. iii, no. 17, 1863, 4, part (Brazil; Caracas, Vene- 

 zuela; Surinam; no. 39 (Rev. Crit.), 1874, 1. 



C[eryle] torquata Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 139 (David, Panama). 



Ceryle torquata Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 108 (Mexico). — Hart- 

 LAUB, Index Azara's Apunt., 1847, 26. — Gray, List Fissirostr. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., 1848, 61.— Cassin, Cat. Halcyonidse Mus. Phila. Acad., 1852, 2; Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 133.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 202 

 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 1860, 284 (Babahoyo, w. Ecuador). — Pelzeln, Sitz. 

 Ak. Wien, 1856, 514; Orn. Bras., i, Abth., 1868, 23; iv. Abth., 1870, 404.— 

 Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 53 (Omoa, Honduras; Peten, Guate- 

 mala). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 131 (Rio Dulce, Guatemala); Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 363 (Lion Hill, Panama); 1866, 191 (Lower Ucayali, 



