184 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
northern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to the southern border of 
United States; winters from British Columbia, Nebraska, L[linois, 
Indiana, Ohio, and Virginia south to the West Indies, Colombia, and 
Guiana, and irregularly as far north as Massachusetts, New Hamp- 
shire, and Ontario. 
[Ceryle torquata (LINNaus). Ringed Kingfisher. [390.1.] 
Alcedo torquata LINNxUs, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 180. (“‘Martinica, 
Mexico.’’) 
RanGE.— Tropical Mexico and southward to southern Brazil; 
casual on Lower Rio Grande, Texas.] 
Suscenus CHLOROCERYLE Kavp. 
Chloroceryle Kaur, Verh. naturhist. Vereins Hessen, II, 1848, 68. Type, 
by subs. desig., Alcedo amazona LaTHAM (Gray, 1855). 
Ceryle americéna (GMELIN). 
Rance.— Northern Mexico south to northern Argentina. 
a. [Ceryle americana americana. Extralimital.] 
b. Ceryle americana septentrionalis SHarpr. Texas Kingfisher. [391.] 
Ceryle septentrionalis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 134. 
(Type locality not given.) 
RancGeE.— Southern Texas and Sinaloa, Mexico, south to Panama. 
