414 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



STREPTOCERYLE TORQUATA STICTIPENNIS (Lawrence). 



ANTILLEAN KIKGED KINGFISHER. 



Similar to S. t. torquata but with outer webs of secondaries con- 

 spicuously spotted with white (the whole upper parts sometimes 

 similarly marked)." 



Adult maZe.— Length (skin, 392;^ wing, 193.5-201 (197.4); tail, 

 121.5-125 (123.1); exposed culmen, 79.5-81 (80.5); tarsus, 13.5-15 

 (14.5); middle toe, 19-20.5 (20)." 



Adult female.— Wmg, 200-202.5 (201.2); tail, 120-123.5 (121.7); 

 exposed culmen, 83-86 (84.5); tarsus, 14-16 (15); middle toe, 

 22-22.5 (22.2).'^ 



Lesser Antilles (islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica; Martinique ?). 



{l)Alcedo torquata (not of Linnaeus) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xix, 1818, 

 399, part ("Antilles"). — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, no. 17, 1863, 4, part 

 ("Haiti"). 



Ceryle torquata Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 459, 487 (Guadeloupe, 

 Lesser Antilles). 



[Ceryle] torquata Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 19 (Guadeloupe). 



Ceryle stictipennis Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, no. 39, Nov. 3, 1885, 

 623 (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles; coll. G. N. Lawrence). — Cory, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 367 (Guadeloupe); iv, 1887, 96 (Martinique); Birds West Ind., 1889, 

 162 (Guadeloupe). 



a There is much individual variation in the extent of the barring or spotting on 

 the upper parts, some specimens being as conspicuously marked as extreme examples 

 of S. t. stellata while others can be distinguished from S. t. torquata only by the white 

 bars or spots on outer webs of the secondaries. One specimen (No. 28692, coll. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool.), said to be from Martinique (it was first labeled as from St. Christopher!) 

 lacks even the white markings on outer webs of the secondaries, and is, so far as I can 

 see, in every way indistinguishable from typical iS". t. torquata. Possibly it is not 

 from either of the islands named, but from some part of the continent. As in the case 

 of S. t. stellata, the cinnamon-rufous of the under parts appears to be darker, more 

 eastaneous, in 31. t. stictipennis than in S. t. torquata. 



b One specimen. 



c Four specimens. 



d Two specimens. 



