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northern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to the southern border of 

 United States; winters from British Columbia, Nebraska, Illinois, 

 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 (LiNN^us). Ringed Kingfisher. [390.1.] 



Alcedo torquata LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 180. ("Martinica, 

 Mexico.") 



RANGE. Tropical Mexico and southward to southern Brazil; 

 casual on Lower Rio Grande, Texas.] 



SUBGENUS CHLOROCERYLE KAUP. 



Chloroceryle KAUP, Verb, naturhist. Vereins Hessen, II, 1848, 68. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Alcedo amazona LATHAM (Gray, 1855). 



Ceryle americana (GMELIN). 



RANGE. Northern Mexico south to northern Argentina. 



a. [Ceryle americana americana. Extralimital.] 



b. Ceryle americana septentrionalis SHARPE. Texas Kingfisher. [391.] 



Ceryle septentrionalis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 134. 

 (Type locality not given.) 



RANGE. Southern Texas and Sinaloa, Mexico, south to Panama. 



