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Field Museum of Natural History — ^Zo6logy, Vol. XIII. 



Ceryle torquata Sharpe, Mon. Alcedinidae, 1868-71, p. 73, pi. 22; Id., Cat, Bds. 



Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, p. 121; GoELDi, Alb. de Aves Amazon, pt. i, 1900, 



pi. I, Fig. 9. 

 Streptoceryle torquata torquata Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No, 50. VI, 1914, 



p. 409. 

 Megaceryle torquata torquata Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, 



p. 266. 

 Range: Northern Mexico, south through Central America and 

 greater portion of South America (except Bolivia and Peru) to Paraguay 

 and Argentina. 



123: Mexico 6; Nicaragua i; Costa Rica 2; Colombia 4; Venezuela 

 4; British Guiana i; Brazil (Amazonas) i; Argentina i; and Dutch 

 Guiana i. 



*Streptoceryle torquata stictipennis (Lawrence). Antillan Ringed 

 Kjngfisher. 



Ceryle stictipennis Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, p. 623 (Guade- 

 loupe I., West Indies); Cory, Auk, 1886, p. 367; Id., Bds. West Indies, 1889, 

 p. 162. 



Streptoceryle torquata stictipennis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 

 1914, p. 414. 



Range: Islands of Guadeloupe, Dominica and Martinique, Lesser 

 Antilles. 



i: Martinique I., West Indies. 



♦Streptoceryle torquata stillata (Meyen). Southern Ringed King- 

 fisher. 



Alcedo stillata Meyen, Nova. Acta Leop. Carol., XVI, Suppl. 1834, p. 93, pi. 14 

 (Rio Claro, Prov. San Femandino, Chile); Sharps, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., 

 XVII, 1892, p. 123. 



Streptoceryle torquata stillata Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 

 p. 408, in key. 



Range: Bolivia, Peru and Patagonia to Tierra del Fuego. 

 2 : Peru. 



♦Streptoceryle alcyon alcyon {Linn.). Belted Kingfisher. 



Alcedo alcyon Linn., Syst. Nat., I, ed. 10, 1758, p. 115 (North America). 



Ceryle alcyon Bd. Bwr. and Ridgway, Hist. N. A. Bds., II, 1874, p. 392, part, 

 pi. 45, Fig. 6; Cory, Bds. Bahama Islands, 1880, p. 115; Id., Auk, 1886, p. 368; 

 Id., 1887, p. 181; Id., Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 163; Sharpe, Mon. Alce- 

 dinidae, 1868-71, p. 79, pi. 23; Id., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, p. 125. 



Streptoceryle alcyon alcyon Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 

 P- 415- 



Range: Central and eastern North America, from the base of the 

 Rocky Mountains, the Mackenzie, the West Indies, eastern Mexico and 

 Central America to Panama and north Colombia (Venezuela?). 



