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from the other series, though most of the latter have a distinctly 
brassy sheen. There seems to be an incipient difference, but not one 
that would merit a special name. 
Family ALCEDINIDAE: Kingfishers 
MEGACERYLE TORQUATA TORQUATA (Linnaeus): Ringed Kingfisher, 
Martin Pescador Grande 
Alcedo torquata LINNAEUS, Systema naturae, ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 180. 
( México.) 
A few of these kingfishers ranged along the lower courses of the 
Rio San Juan and the Rio Catival, where the tidal part of these 
streams traversed the great lowland swamps. 
A male was collected January 12. 
CHLOROCERYLE AMERICANA ISTHMICA (Goldman): Green Kingfisher, 
Martin Pescador Verde 
Ceryle americana isthmica GoLpDMAN, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 27, 
Dec. I, 1911, p. I. (Rio Indio, near Gatun, Canal Zone, Panama.) 
Green kingfishers lived along the lower courses of all the streams, 
large and small, that flowed into Bahia Damas. In early morning they 
rested on sticks, or on projecting points of rock exposures where 
small creeks came down to the beaches, but as soon as the sun was 
high they retreated inland where the water flowed between shaded 
banks. Along the larger rivers they ranged through the mangrove 
swamps. As they fly near the surface of the water in these dimly 
lighted places it is only the white marking of the tail and lower 
abdomen that allows the eye to follow them. 
CHLOROCERYLE AENEA AENEA (Pallas): Pygmy Kingfisher, 
Martin Pescador Enano 
Alcedo aenea Pattas, in Vroeg, Beredeneerde catalogus, . . . Vogelen, 
Adumbratiunculae, 1764, p. 1. (Surinam.) 
A male, taken low down among the roots of the white mangroves 
in the swamp at the mouth of Rio Catival, was the only one seen. 
Family PicipaE: Woodpeckers 
CENTURUS RUBRICAPILLUS Cabanis: Wagler’s Woodpecker, 
Carpintero Rayado 
Centurus rubricapillus CABANIS, Journ. fiir Orn., vol. 10, 1862, p. 328. (Bar- 
ranquilla, Atlantico, Colombia.) 
This is the common woodpecker on the island as it is throughout 
the Pacific lowlands of mainland Panama from the Costa Rican 
