GREEN AND RUFOUS KINGFISHER 



5. Chloroceryle inda (Linnaeus) 9 

 Green and Rufous Kingfisher 



Length 215 mm. (845 in.); tail 64 mm. (2.50 

 in.). 



Male. Above dark metallic green spotted 

 with white on upper back and shoulders; tail 

 irregularly barred with white; a few spots and 

 speckles of white on wings; under parts bright 

 orange chestnut fading to orange buff on throat; 

 under wing coverts orange tawny. 



Female. Similar to male but the orange buff 

 of throat separated from the deeper color of 

 breast by a band of metallic green mixed with 

 white. 



Young male. Similar to female. 



Not common. This species is the handsomest 

 kingfisher in the Canal Zone, its coloring being 

 the most striking. I saw a male and female in 

 the spring of 1924 on adjacent trees by the side 

 of the canal near Gamboa. 



6. Chloroceryle aenea aenea (Pallas) 

 Least Green Kingfisher 



Length 132 mm. (5.20 in.); tail 36 mm. (1.40 



in.). 



Male. Above very dark metallic green, the 

 wings and tail spotted with white; cheeks and 

 sides of neck orange tawny, paler on throat; 

 chest, sides and flanks orange chestnut, the 

 middle of the breast and the abdomen, white. 

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