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(no. 1140, female adult). H. C. Oberholser, of the U. S. Biolog- 
ical Survey, to whom it was sent, has pronounced it to be B. v. 
lagophonus. 
Ceryle alcyon caurina, new subspecies. 
Northwestern Belted Kingfisher. 
Typr.— adult; no. 1233, Univ. Calif. Mus. Vert. Zool.; 
Graveyard Point, Montague Island, Alaska; July 12, 1908; col- 
lected by E. Heller. 
Fig. 4.—Ceryle alcyon caurina, type, adult male; outer surface of closed 
wing; X %. 
Fig. 5.—Ceryle aleyon alcyon, female adult, Grinnell coll. (orig. no. 947, 
N. Hollister), Delavan, Wisconsin; outer surface of closed wing, showing 
relative shortness of secondaries and coverts; X 34. ; 
CHARAcTERS.—Similar to the Ceryle aleyon of eastern and 
southern North America, but size throughout greater, especially 
measurements of flight-feathers. 
Rance.—Northwestern America, south along the Pacifie Coast 
in winter. (There is no material at hand to show the status of 
the birds breeding in California. ) 
RemMarxKs.—That there is a western race of the belted king- 
fisher has long been known. In 1858 (Pac. R. R. Rep., IX, p. 
158) Baird remarked that, ‘‘as a general rule, specimens from 
the Pacific Coast are appreciably larger than eastern ones, though 
