302 



NOKTIl AMERICAN BJHIXS. 



iho proceiliiif,'. Bill loiip, thin. Tiirsi longt.T than hiiul toe; almosit or quite oa 

 long iiM thu inner anterior. I'liiniagi; witii a green nietalHi! gloss above; tho 

 ocuii)iit witii a ercst of rather short, inilislinut lealhurs. Type, .1. ainazona. 



Thu goiuis C'cn/lc wiis estiiblishoil liy IJoie on tho Almhi riidi.i, of Limioeus, 

 an Al'rit'iin siiucies. Mudorn sy.stuniuti.sts soiiiinito tlio Aiiu'riciui Kinj^fislicrs 

 from tliuso of tlic Ulil World, iiud if correct iu so doing, iiuuLlicr gunuric 



Cnyle atryon. 



nnme mnst be selected for the f(jrnier. If the two American sections he 

 combined into one, Clilormrri/lc of Kanp (type, Alccdo umdzona) mnst be 

 taken as being tiie older, nnless, indeed, hpida of Swainson (1837) be 

 admissible. This apjicars to have been based on Alccdo alci/oii, although 

 including also some Old World species. 



Ceryle alcyon, Bora. 



BELTED KINOFISHEB. 



Ahrdnahijim, Linx-Wts, .Syst. Nnt. I, 1766, 180. — Wilson, Am. Orn. Ill, 1811, 59.— 

 AunuiioN, Orn. Ilioi,'. I, 1831, 384 ; pi. Ixxvii. — In. Hirds Anicrioa. — Max. Cah. .T. 

 VI, 1858, 102. Crnjh nki/nii, BoiK, Lsis, 1828, 316. — IJiucwku, N. Am. Oology, I, 

 1857, 110, pi. iv, lig. 52 (egg). — Wood, Am. Naturalist, 1868, 37!) (nesting). — H.Ulin, 

 liirils N. Am. 1858, 158. — Cooi-kk & SrcKT.KY, 167. — Dai.i, & Hanni.stkr, Ch. 

 Ac. I, i, 1869, 275 (Alaska). - FiNsoii, Abh. Nat. Ill, 1872, 2!) (Alaska). — SA.MiM'.t.s, 

 125. — Oool'Kl!, Orn. Cal. 1, 1870, 337. — Am.kx, B. Flu. 300. Mcfiaivn/k nki/on, 

 RKK.'MKSn. Ilinidl). Sp. Orn. I, it, 1851, 25, pi. I'cccxii, fig. 3108-9. Isjiida Indorici- 

 ana, O.MEM N, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 452. "Alccdo jar/uacatc, Dii.MOSr, Dirt. Sc. Nat. 

 I, 1816, 4,55" (Oa.ssin). "Alccdo (tiincu, ViKii.i.or, Noiiv. Diet. XIX, 1818, 406," 

 (Cassin). Sfre.ptoccryle alcijon, Cadanis, Mus. Iluiii. II, 151. 



.Sp. Piiar. Head witli a long crest. Above ashy-bliio, without mntallie lustre. Beneath, 

 with a conoo.iled band across the ocei|>ut, .and a spot anterior to tlio eye, pure white. 

 A band across the breast, and the sides of the body under the wings, like the back. 



