order coccyges. 209 



Suborder ALCYONES. Kingfishers. 



Family ALCEDINID-ffi. Kingfishers. 



Genus CERYLE Boie. 

 Ceryle BoiE, Isis, 1828, 316. Type, Alcedo rudis Linn. 



Subgenus STREPTOCERyijB Bonaparte. 



Streptoceryle Bonap. Consp. Vol. Anisod. 1854, 10. Type, Alcedo 

 torquata Linn. 



390. Ceryle alcyon (Linn.). 



Belted Kingfisher. 



Alcedo alcyon LixN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 115. 

 Ceryle alcvon Bonap. P. Z. S. 1837, 108. 



[B 117, C 286, R382, C 423.] 



Hab. North America, south to Panama and the West Indies. 



Subgenus CHLOROCER7LE Kaup. 



Chtoroceryle Kaup, Fam. Eisv. 1848, 8. Type, Alcedo superciliosa 

 Linn. 



391. Ceryle cabanisi (Tschudi). 



Texan Kingfisher. 



Alcedo cabanisi Tschudi, Faun. Per. Orn. 1844, 253. 

 Ceryle cabanisi Bonap. Consp. Av. I. 1850, 160. 



[B 118, C 287, R 383, C 424.] 



Hab^ Valley of the Lower Rio Grande, Texas, and Lower Colorado 

 River, Arizona, south to Ecuador and Western Peru. 



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