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Segovia river {Toivnsend 23) ; Nicaragua, Momotombo ( W. £. Richardson), San Juan 

 del Sur i9, Sucuya 20, Omotepe 21 (Nutting), Escondido R. {Richmond 2^) ; Costa 

 Rica, Agua Caliente, Orosi, Navarro {v. Frantzius^% La Palma {Nutting ^^), 

 Gulf of Nicoya {Sir E. Belcher ^% Peje {Carmiol), Liberia, Jimenez {Zeledon^^) ; 

 Panama, Lion HUl {M'Leannan ^ n), Chepo (Jrce).— South America generally, 

 except Patagonia and the west coast of Chili and Peru. 



Ceryle torguata is much the largest of the Central-American Kingfishers, and in the 

 southern continent is only equalled by forms that are barely separable from it. 

 Though allied to C. alcyon, it has a wholly different range, being in fact a South- 

 American species, extending northwards through Central America to both Western and 

 Eastern Mexico even to the Rio Grande, where a specimen was shot a few years ago 

 near Laredo, its capture being recorded by Mr. Stone. 



In South America its range is nearly universal, and only in Southern Patagonia and 

 the west coast of the continent between the Andes and the Pacific is its place taken 

 by the closely-allied C. stellata. In altitude C. torguata does not reach nearly so high 

 as C. alcyon, as it keeps to the stiller waters of the rivers as they approach the sea and 

 the lakes and swamps near the coast. Grayson says that he only saw it near the sea 

 in the vicinity of Mazatlan, but not in the river itself 12, It preferred stagnant pools 

 and lagoons densely shaded with overhanging trees. Our experience was somewhat 

 different, for during canoe journeys down the B.^lize river and on the Rio Dulce birds 

 of this species were seldom out of sight, flying ahead of the boat and alighting from 

 time to time to start again as she approached, till at last, being driven beyond their 

 usual haunts, they would dash past in the opposite direction. 



So far as we know, C. torguata makes no migratory movements, but remains 

 sedentary throughout its range the whole year. 



j3. Corpus supra nitente viride. 

 3. Ceryle amazona. 



Amazonian Kingfisher, Lath. Gen. Syn., Suppl. i. p. 116 ^. 



Alcedo amazona, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 257 ^. 



Ceryle amazona, Sel. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 202'; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 53* ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 131'; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 363'; 1867, p. 279 ^ Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 133 ^ Salv 

 Ibis, 1860, p. 195 '; P. Z. S. 1867, p. 152'°; 1870, p. 201 "; Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 416" : 

 Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 290 "; Mem. Best. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 295 " ; Biill. U. S. Nat 

 Mus. no. 4, p. 30 " ; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 311 " ; Sharpe, Mon. Alced. p. 83, t. 24 ": 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 129"; Finsch, Abh. nat. Ver. z. Bremen, 1870, p. 328" 

 Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 239 '° ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 453 "' ; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat 

 Mus. vi. p. 394"; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. is. p. 161"'; Zeledon, An. Mus.Nac 

 Costa Eica, 1887, p. 119"; Richmond, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 511". 



Chloroceryle amazonia, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1862, p. 161 ". 



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