432 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



on sides below this more extensive, in some forming a second band ; 

 white of foreneck and breast lightly washed with buff. 



Measurements. — See above. 



From Honduras through Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and all of Panama. 



Chloroceryle americana americana (Gmelin) 



Alcedo americana Gmelin, Syst. Nat, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1788, p. 451. (Cayenne.) 



Smaller; male, more heavily spotted with greenish black on lower 

 breast and sides ; chestnut of underparts somewhat darker, more 

 extensive on lower foreneck. Female, with black band on breast 

 wider, less broken by white edgings ; dark markings on side of breast 

 more extensive, regularly forming a second band ; foreneck and 

 lower breast in most individuals strongly suffused with buff. 



Measurements. — Males (14 specimens), wing 72.5-78.8 (75.2), tail 

 51.0-58.1 (53.4), culmen from base 38.0-46.2 (43.4), tarsus 8.2- 

 9.4 (8.8) mm. 



Females (13 specimens), wing 73.5-77.2 (75.6), tail 50.6-57.2 

 (53.5), culmen from base 38.6-45.7 (42.5), tarsus 9.0-9.8 (9.5) mm. 



Colombia and Venezuela south to northeastern Bolivia and south- 

 central Brazil. 



Those from northwestern Colombia are intermediate toward 

 isthmica. 



CHLOROCERYLE INDA CHOCOENSIS Todd: Green-and-rufous 

 Kingfisher, Martin Pescador Selvatico 



Chloroceryle inda chocoensis Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 56, June 

 16, 1943, p. 47. (El Tambo, Choco, Colombia.) 



Small ; dark above ; with breast and abdomen rufous, paler on 

 the throat; female similar to male, but with a band of black and 

 white on breast. 



Description. — Length 200-220 mm. Adult male, above dark metal- 

 lic bronze-green, blacker on crown and side of head ; forehead, and, 

 in some, the upper lesser wing coverts, speckled lightly with cinnamon- 

 buff ; scapulars and interscapulars with concealed white; secondaries 

 with three or four rows of minute white spots ; rump and upper 

 tail coverts with a few small flecks of white ; primaries dull black, 

 with outer webs dark metallic bronze-green like back; central pair 

 of rectrices like back; others dark bluish green, spotted narrowly 

 with white on the inner webs ; a narrow supraloral streak of cin- 

 namon ; a white spot on lower eyelid ; throat and sides of neck 



