368 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [J"Iy 



^^Habitat. — Guadeloupe, West Indies. Type in m\' collection. 



'■'Female. — The color above is similar to that of the male, but it 

 has the entire back and wings marked sparsely with small white 

 spots; in the marking's on the head, wings, and tail thej are much 

 alike; it has the white throat. and band on the hind neck as in the 

 male; across the lower part of the throat and upper part of the 

 breast thei-e is a -broad band of ashy-blue, minutely freckled with 

 white; this band is bordered narrowly below with white; the entire 

 under plumage besides, and the under wing-coverts are deep cinna- 

 mon. 



"Length (skin), 17^ inches; wing, S; tail, 5^ ; bill, 3. 



"The type of the female is in the National Museum, Washington, 

 to which it was sent from Guadeloupe by Mr. L. Guesde." (Lawr., 

 1. c, orig. descr.) 



It bus alwavs been supposed tbat Ccrylc torquata did not dif- 

 fer from tbe Guadeloupe species, but Air. Lawrence considers 

 the West Indian bird as new and has described it as above. The 

 greatest difference seems to be the white spotting of the wings 

 and back, and the rufous marking of the under wing-coverts. 

 Were it not for the isohited position where it occurs it would 

 represent a variety of C. torqiiata^ but as we have no record of 

 its occurrence elsewhere in the West Indies, and as it is claimed 

 to be resident in Guadeloupe, intergradation seems hardlv proba- 

 ble, still the Lesser Antilles are not, as yet, so well known as to 

 justify us in saying C. torquata does not occiu" elsewliere in the 

 West Indies. 



Ceryle alcyon (Linn.). 



Alcedo alcvon LiXN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 180 (1766). — D'Orb. in La Sagra's 

 Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 130 (1840). — Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist. X, p. 255 (1866) (Porto Rico). — SuNDEV. Oefv. K. Vet. 

 Akad. For. 1869, p. 585 (St. Bartholomew) ; ib. p. 600 (Porto Rico). 



Ceiyic atejofi GossK, Bds. Jam. p. 81 (1847).^ — Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 

 233 (San Domingo). — A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1S59, p. 67 (St. 

 Croix).— Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. loS (1859) (Ba- 

 hamas). — Brewer, ib. p. 306 (i860) (Cuba). — Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, 

 p. 77 (Jamaica). — Albrecht, J. f O. 1862, p. 199 (Jamaica). — 

 GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 292 (1866). — Lawr. Pr. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. I, p. 62 (1S78) (Dominica); ib. p. 193 (St. Vincent); ib. 

 p. 292 (Grenada) ; ib. p. 359 (Martinique) ; ib. p. 459 (Guadeloupe). 

 — GuNDL. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 21S (1S7S) (Porto 

 Rico). — Scl. P. Z. S. 1S79, p. 765 (Montserrat). — Allen, Bull. 



