FAMILY ALCEDINIDAE 421 



CERYLE TORQUATA TORQUATA (Linnaeus) : Ringed Kingfisher, 

 Martin Pescador Grande 



Figure 49 



Alcedo torquata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 180. (Mexico.) 



Size large ; breast wholly rufous-brown in both sexes. 



Description. — Length 375-425 mm. Adult male, upper surface, in- 

 cluding the greater, middle, and lesser wing coverts, bluish gray, 

 with shaft lines of black, especially prominent on the head ; a promi- 

 nent white band across hindneck ; primaries black tipped lightly 

 with white ; primary coverts black edged narrowly with bluish gray ; 

 secondaries black tipped with white, with the outer webs edged 

 widely with bluish gray; rectrices tipped with white, the central 

 pair bluish gray with a broad shaft line of black, others black with 

 the outer web edged with bluish gray, all spotted and barred ir- 

 regularly with white; lores and a circlet around eye dull black, the 

 feathers tipped indistinctly with dark gray ; a white spot above 

 the lores, and another on the lower eyelid ; throat, upper f oreneck, 

 and posterior malar region white, this confluent with the white 

 collar of the hindneck ; lower foreneck, breast, sides, and upper 

 abdomen cinnamon-rufous; under wing coverts, much of under sur- 

 face of wing, lower abdomen, and under tail coverts white; axillars 

 white barred more or less with slate; under tail coverts varying 

 from plain white to lightly spotted, or to rather prominently barred 

 with slate-gray ; flanks bluish slate, barred with white. 



Adult female, like male but with a broad band of bluish gray 

 across lower foreneck, bordered narrowly with white across upper 

 breast ; sides, axillars, under wing coverts, flanks, lower abdomen, and 

 under tail coverts cinnamon-rufous like lower breast and abdomen. 



Immature male, like adult female, but paler cinnamon-rufous below ; 

 breast band mixed dull gray and cinnamon, with black shaft lines ; 

 white pectoral band indistinct ; under wing coverts wholly or partly 

 white; black shaft streaks on crown and crest broader; wing coverts 

 with slight to prominent black shaft lines. 



Immature female, like immature male, but with under wing coverts 

 cinnamon ; white pectoral band usually prominent. 



Iris brown ; bill dull black, more or less brownish basally, with 

 tip grayish white, and base of gonys indistinctly dull yellowish 

 brown ; tarsus and toes dull olive-brown ; claws black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Panama and Colombia), wing 



