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fonn rufous ; outer webs of quills without white spotting at base. 

 Adult male: Lower tail-coverts and anal region pure white, and rufous 

 of belly covering breast, and reaching to white of throat. Adult female : 

 Lower tail-coverts and aual region rufous ; breast plumbeous-bluc, usu- 

 ally bordered behind by white. Length about 15.50-17.00, wing about 

 7.50. JTiih. Tropical America in general (except West Indies), north to 

 southern Mexico, accidentally to southern Texas. 



[390.1.] C. torquata (Linn.). Great Rufous-bellied Kingfisher.' 

 f. Wing less than 7.00, culiuen less than 3.00; belly white ; outer weijs of quills 

 spotted with white toward base. Adult male: Above bluish plumbeous, 

 the tail transversely spotted with white, and basal half of primaries 

 coarsely spotted with same ; a white spot on sides of forehead, above 

 lores; lower parts pure white, interrupted by a broad band of bluish 

 plumbeous across breast ; white of throat encircling hind-neck. Adult 

 female: Similar to the male, but sides and flanks, and a more or less 

 strongly indicated (never complete?) band across belly, rufous. Young : 

 Similar to adult, -but the male with the breast-band and sides tinged with 

 rusty. Length 11.00-14.50, wing 6.00-6.50, tail 3.80-4.30, culmen 2.00, 

 or more. Eggs 1.34 X 1-05. Hab. Whole of Noi-th America, and south 

 to Panama and the West Indies. 



390. C. alcyon (Linn.). Belted Kingfisher. 

 Wing less than 4.00; tarsus longer than hind-toe, and almost as long as inner 



anterior toe; plumage metallic greenish above. (Subgenus Chloroceryle 



Kaup.) 



Adult female : Above dark metallic bottle-green, interrupted by a white 

 collar across hind-neck, the secondaries, primaries, and tail spotted with 

 white, in transverse series; lower parts pure white, interrupted by a 

 band of dark metallic green across breast; sides spotted with dark 

 greenish, these spots continued as an interrupted band across belly. 

 Adult male : Similar to the female, but green band across breast replaced 

 hy one of deep rufous ; no green spots across belly. Young male : Similar 

 to adult female, but breast more or less tinged with rusty. Length 6.75- 

 8.50, wing 3.40-3.50, tail 2.70-2.75, exposed culmen 1.65-1.85. Eggs 

 .96 X -"3. Hab. Middle America and northwestern South America, north 

 to southwestern border of United States (southern Texas to Arizona), 

 south to western Peru. 



391. C. americana septentrionalis Sharpe. Texan Kingfisher. 



» Alccdo torquala Ll.sx., S. X. ed. 12, i. 1766, 180. Ceryle torquata Bo.vap., P. Z. S. 1S37, 108. 



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