32 ALCF.DINID^. 



5. iMayville, New York, ISth May. Radcllffe Saunders Coll. 

 2. Massachusetts {Heyiiihuw Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. New Jersey, 8th May ( W. E. D. Princeton University, X.J. 



Scott). ' [E.]. 



2. St. Croix, W. Indies (A. ^$- E. Seebohm Coll. 



Xeicton). 



Ceryle amazona {Lath.). 



Ceryle amazonia, Sharpe, Mon. Alcedimdcs, p. 83 (18G9). 



Ceryle amazona, Scl. iS,- Hiids. Argoit. Orn. ii. p. 27 (1889) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. xvii. p. 129 (1892) ; Salv. ^- Godin. Biol. Ce/ifr.- 

 Amer., ^ws, ii. p. 47o (189."j); Nehrk. Kid. Eiersamml. p. KiO 

 (1899); Sharpe, JInnd-l. ii. p. oO (1900); von Iheriug, Rev. Mus. 

 Paulista, iv. p. 260 (1900). 



Four eggs of the Amazon Green Kingfisher measure respectively : 

 1-24 by 1 ; 1-2 by 1-03 ; 1-25 by -96 ; 1-23 by -99. 



3. British Honduras, 2oth May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{F. Blancaneaiu). 



1. S. America. Crowley Bequest. 



Ceryle septentrionalis, Sharpe. 



Ceryle americana, Brewer, N. Amor. Ool. pt. i. p. Ill, pi. iv. fig. 53 



'(1856). 

 Ceryle cabanisi, Sharpe, Mon. Alcedinid(P,, p. 87 (1808). 

 Ceryle americana, var. cabinisi, Baird, Brewer i^- Ridgw. N. Amer, 



Birds, ii. p. 396 (1874). 

 Ceryle septeutrionalis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. ^f. p. 134 (1892) ; id. 



Mand-l.h. -p. 50 {imO). 

 Ceryle americana septentrionalis, Beudire, Life-Hist. N. Amer. Birds, 



ii. p. 39, pi. i. fig. 4 (1895). 



Four eggs of the Texan Green Kingfisher measure respectively : 

 •92 by -73 ; -91 by -73 : -95 by -73 ; '94 by -74. 



4. S. Antonio, Texas, IGth March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{H. P. Attwater). 



2. Mazatlau, Mexico, 24th May Crowley Bequest, 



{A. Forrer). 



Genus ALCEDO, Linn. 



The eggs of the species of this genus are perhaps more nearly 

 spherical in shajie than those of the other members of this family. 

 They are also extremely glossy. 



Alcedo ispida, Linn. 



Alcedo ispida, Thieii. Fortpfianz. ges. Vog. tab. xiii. fig. 2 (1845-54); 

 Baedeker, Eier Eur. T'og. tab. ii. fig. 9 (1855-63) ; Heioitson, Eggs 

 of Brit. Birds, i. p. 255, pi. Ixiv. fig. i (1856) ; Sharpe, Mon. 

 Alcedinidce, p. 1 (1870) ; iJresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 113 (1875); 

 Leqge, Birds Ceyl. p. 292 (1878) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 341, 

 pi." 18 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xvii. p. 141 (1892) ; Blanf. 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 122 (1895); Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. 

 Birds, p. 168, pi. 48 fig. 7 (1896) ; Sharpe, lland-l. ii. p. 50 (1900). 



