MEGACERYLE. 345 



Breeding-season, Unknown in British Guiana. 



JS^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. On the coast (Quelcli). 



Extralimital Range. Venezuela, Colombia, Central and North 

 America. 



Bahits. Mr. J. J. Quelch, writing on the Migratory Birds in 

 British Guiana, remarks (Tiinehri (2) x. p. 263): — "Another special 

 example of migrant is to be found in the northern Kingfisher 

 {Ceryle alci/on), of which two examples have been i'ound on the 

 coast. This migrant of the northern regions is known to descend 

 to several parts of C'entral America and the West Indies, but the 

 Guianas Avould seem to be its extreme range southwards/' 



This is the first and onl}' record we have of the occurrence of 

 this species in British Guiana. 



222. Megaceryle torquata. 

 Great Gbey Kingfisher 



Alcedo torquata Linn. Syst. Xat. 12th ed. i. p. 180, 1766 (Mexico) ; 

 Cab. in Schomb. liei^. Guian. iii. p. 703, 1S48. 



Ceri/le torquata 8alvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 60 (Camacusa, Merurae Mts., K. 

 Atapurau) ; Quelch, Timehri (2) iv. pp. 102, 317, 1890 (Demerara 

 Eiver) ; Llovd Price, op. cit. (2) v. p. 66, 1891 ; Quelch, tom. cit. 

 p. 9o (Georgetown) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 121, 1892 

 (River Atapurow) ; Beebe, Our Search for a Wilderness, pp. 163, 

 199, 281, 1910 (Barima, Hoorie, Aremu) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. 

 S. Amer. i. p. 95, no. 895, 1912. 



Megacen/le torquata Miller, Bull. Amer. Mvis. Nat. Hist. xxxi. p. 295, 

 1912. 



"The Large-collared Kingfisher" {Quelch). 



Adult male. Head and elongated crest, sides of face, back, 

 wings, and tail slate-grey, with black shaft-lines, and white dots 

 to many of the feathers ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills black edged with grey, the last tipped and barred with 

 white on the inner web.s and wliite spots on outer webs in a few 

 cases; lores, a band round the Innd-neck, and throat white ; breast 

 and abdomen deep chestnut ; under tail-coverts barred and sj)otted 

 with grey ; axillaries wiiite, also barred with grey ; under 

 wing-coverts white, with dark shaft-lines to some of the feather.^. 

 " I)ill bl;ick. the lower mandible and b;ise of the uiipei' one 



