ALCEDIXID.K — THE KINGFISIIKHS. 



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Primnriea wliito on tlio Imsal Imll', tlic t.'rininal niispotU'il. Tuil -villi tiaiisvorso bands 



and sitoU of whitf. Ftmnle. and ijuuuij wiih sidi's i T body and a band ucinsa ilic 



belly liciow llic pectoral oiio 



li(,'lit clu'slnul; lliu pciloral liand '^^r 



nioiv or less tinjicd with the 



sanie. Leiij,'lli of aihilt alioiit 



l'J.7") ini'luM; wilif.', (!.l)ll. 



Haii. Tilt! entile conlineiit ol' 

 Xorth Aiiu'iini to I'luiania, iii- 

 elildili}^ West Indies. Loeali- 

 ties: Honduras (Moouk, T. /. S. 

 18.VJ, M; Set,. Ibis, II, ll(;j;Sta. 

 Cruz, winter (Nkwton, Ibis, 1, 

 (i"); Helizo (Sci.. Ibis, I, i;!l); 

 YorkFa.lory, II. li. T.iMiuuAV, 

 Ediiib. I'hil. J. Jan 18G0); Cuba 

 (Caii. J. IV, 101 ; (ii-Nni,. Rej). 

 1. 1800, '2!)2) ; Uahaiuas (Hiivant, 

 JJost. 8oe. VII, 18.')!)): .lamaica 

 ((jossK, liirds Jntn. 81 ; Oii/.abii 

 (Sc!-. P. Z. S. 18(i0, 2.")3) ; Paii- 

 nnm (Lawr. N. Y. I,y<'. 18G1, 

 318 n.) ; Costa Riea (Cah. J. 1802, 



102; Lawk. N. Y. Lye. IX, 118); Tobn?o (.lAiin. Ann 

 Ibis, 18(i."), 471); Arizona (Corts, P. A. N. 8. 1800,50); Stn. liartlioleiuy (Su.sa OlV 

 1800, 585). 



Cfrytf nfrt/on, 

 Majr. 10,8(1); Texas (Dukspkr, 



This species varies consideralily in size witli locality, as do so many 

 others. Western specimens are appreciably larger, esi)ecially those I'rum the 

 noithwcfit coast. Accordiiij,' to NuttiiU and Atidiiboii, it is the leniale that 

 has the transverse band o!' chestnut across the Itelly. In thi.s they may be 

 correct ; but several specimens in the Smithsonian colkction marked female 

 (perhaps erroneou.sly) sliow no indication of the chestnut.' 



Two closely allied but mucii ...rger sjiecies uclono; to Middle and South 

 America. They differ in havin«,f the wholt! body beneath of a reildish 

 ci.dor. 



Habits. The common Belted Kinglishor of North America is a widely 

 distributtjd species at all times, and in the summer is found in every portion 

 of Xorth America, to the Arctic Ocenti on the north, and from the Atlantic 

 to the I'acific. It is more or less resident throtighout the year, and in 

 mild and open winters a few have been known to linger througliout New 

 England and even in higher latitudes. Tn 1857 Captain Blakiston found 

 it remaihtng on the lower part of the Saskatchewan River until the 7th 

 of October, and afterwards, in 1859, at Pendjina, on the 1st of May, he ob- 



* Tliis confomiiiu,'- of the two scxos has ))iobably ri'sultod from puess-work of the collector, 

 who, noticing the marked diflficiH'c between the male and female, and naturally suppo.sing the 

 former to be the more brif^htly colored, marked tl e rufous-breasted specimens accordingly ; 

 while the few marked correctly may have been thus labelled after careful dissection. 



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