476 ALCEDINID-E. 



Supra nitide viridis, stria malari, pectoris lateribus concoloribus, hypochondriis quoque viridi striatis ; macula 

 infra oculos, gula, torque cervicali integra, abdomine et tectricibus subcaudalibus albis, pectore medialiter 

 et abdomine antico plaga magna castanea ornatis ; alls nigris, subalaribus albis ; cauda viridi-nigricante, 

 rectricum lateralium marginibus albo maculatis, reotricibus extemis in pogonio externo ad basin quoque 

 maoulatis ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, tota circa ll'O, ate 5-5, caudae 3-15, rostri a rictu 3'0, 

 tarsi 0-5. 



$ mari similis, subtus medialiter omnino albus, plaga pectorali castanea nulla. 



Ilal. Mexico, Mazatlan [Gray son "), Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer), San Bias {W. B. 

 Bichardson), Tupila river {Xantus ^^), Jalapa [Salle ^, Ferrari-Perez ^^), Santa 

 Ana, Misantla, Plan del Eio {Ferrari-Perez), La Antigua, Vega del Casadero 

 {M. Trujillo), Teapa [Mrs. H. H. Smith), Chihuitan is, Santa Efigenia i^ Tehu- 

 an tepee 20 (Sumichrast), N. Yucatan {G. F. Gaumer^^); British Honduras, Cayo 

 in the western district {Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala [Skinner ^, Constancia i^), Vera 

 Paz, San Geronimo, San Jose de Guatemala, Huamuchal [0. S. & F. D. G.) ; 

 Honduras, Omoa [Leyland *) ; Nicaragua, Omotepe [Nutting ^^), Escondido E. 

 [Bichmond ^s), Blewfields ( Wickham'^); Costa Rica^^, Agua Caliente, Orosi, Navarro 

 [v. Frantzius ^^), Pacuare [Zeledon 2*) ; Panama, Chitra i^, Calovevora ^i, Santiago de 

 Veraguas i" [Arce), Lion Hill [M'Leannan ^ ^^), Nercua ( Wood ®). — South America 

 generally, from Colombia and Guiana to Argentina 1®. 



The Amazonian Kingfisher of Latham has been known for more than a century, and 

 is one of the commonest of the Kingfishers of South America. It has a similar range 

 to C. torquata, but not quite so extended in Eastern Mexico, its limits northward 

 probably not passing the State of Vera Cruz. In altitude it is found from the sea- 

 level to a height of 3000 or 4000 feet in the rivers and lakes of the mountainous parts 

 of the country it inhabits. 



Like the other South-American species of Alcedinidae, C. amazona seems to be 

 resident throughout the year wherever it is found. 



4. Ceryle septentrionalis. 



Alcedo americana, Swains. PMl. Mag. new ser. i. p. 366 (nee Gmelin) '. 



Ceryle americana, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, pp. 139 "^ 286'; 1858, p. 358*; 1859, p. 367°; Moore, 



P. Z. S. 1859, p. 53 " ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 131 ' ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. 



p. 290'; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 139'. 

 Ceryle cabanisi, Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 152"; 1870, p. 201 "; Ibis, 1872, p. 321 '=; Scl. & Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1867, p. 280 '' ; 1870, p. 837 "; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 118 " ; Sharpe, Mon. 



Alced. p. 87 (partimj "; v. Frantzius, J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 311"; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, 



p. 48'"; 1S83, p. 453"; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 239"; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. ix. p. 161''; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. x. pp. 582", 591"; Zeledon, An. Mus. 



Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 119"; Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. p. 321"; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, 



p. 322'\ 

 Ceryle americana, var. cabanisi, Baird, Brew., and Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, ii. p. 396"; Lawr. Mem. 



Bost. See. N. H. ii. p. 290="; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 30='. 



