BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Salvador (La Libertdd), British Honduras (near Manatee Lagoon; 

 Belize), Honduras (Omoa; Ruat^n Island), Nicaragua (Chontales; 

 Omotepe; San Juan del Sur), Costa Rica (Cartago; Navarro de Car- 

 tago; Agua Caliente; Orosi; Rio Frio), and Panama (Lion HiU) to 

 coast of northern Colombia (Santa Marta), Trinidad, and Los Tes- 

 tigos Islands, near Trinidad. Recorded from practically aU the West 

 India Islands, from the Bahamas to Grenada; said to be resident in 

 some (even Grenada), but this is doubtful. Accidental in British 

 Islands and Azores. 



[Alcedo] alcyon Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 115 (based on The Kingfisher 

 Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 69, pi. 69; The American Kingfisher Edwards, 

 Nat. Hist. Birds, iii, 115, pi. 115).— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 451.— 

 Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 257.— D'Hamonville, Ois. Eur., 1876, 12 

 (Ireland; accidental). 



Alcedo alcyon Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 69. — ^Wilson, Am. Orn., iii, 1811, 59, 

 pi. 23, fig. 1.— ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xix, 1818,406.— Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 394, pi. 77; v, 1839, 548, part; Synopsis, 1839, 173; Birds 



Footnote— Continued . 



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MALES— continued. 



One adult male from Durango (S. a. caurina) 



One adult male from Sinaloa (S. a. caurina) 



Two adult males from s. Lower California (5. a. caurina) 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from Mackenzie 



Six adult females from Rhode Island (1), New York (1), and 



District of Columbia (4) 



Two adult females from Ohio and Illinois 



One adult female from Ft. Clark, Texas (December) 



Four adult females from South Carolina (2) and Florida (2) 



One adult female from Bahamas (Eleuthera I.) i . . . 



Two adult females from Cuba 



Two adult females from Jamaica 



One adult female from Porto Rico 



Four adult females from Santa Lucia 



One adult female from St. Christopher 



One adult female from British Honduras 



One adult female from Guatemala 



Three adult females from n. Alaska (2) and Yukon (1) (S. o. 



caurina) 



Two adult females from coast of s. Alaska (S. a. caurina) 



Two adult females from coast of British Columbia (5. a. caurina) 



One adult female from coast of Washington (5. o. caurina) 



Two adult females from California {S. a. caurina) 



One adult female from n. Lower California (S. a. caurina) 



Two adult females from s. Lower California (5. a, caurina) 



One adult female from Arizona (iS. a. caurina) 



One adult female from Montana (S. o. caurina) 



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