478 ALCEDINID^. 



consisting in its stouter bill and rather stronger build. It has usually been considered 

 to be the same as the bird of Peru described by Tschudi as Alcedo cabanid ; but 

 Mr. Sharpe has recently shown that the true Ceryle cabanisi has much more conspi- 

 cuous and wider white bars on the quills, the bill being only slightly stouter than that 

 of C. americana. 



The range of this species is nearly universal throughout Central America and 

 Mexico, and even passes the Eio Grande into the frontier States of Arizona and Texas; 

 it is everywhere common, frequenting the mountain-streams as high as 5000 feet 

 as well as the larger rivers of the lowlands. Its habits are like those of its congeners 

 of the same region, and, like them, it is resident wherever it is found. 



5. Ceryle inda. 



The Spotted Kingfisher, Edwards, Glean. Nat. Hist. iii. p. 262, t. 335 '. 



Alcedo inda, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 179 (1766) ^ 



Ceryle inda, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 133 ' ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 290 ' ; viii. p. 184 ' ; 



Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 363 '; Siiarpe, Mon. Alced. p. 91, t. 27'; Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus. xvii. p. 137 ^; Richmond, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 512 '. 



Supra nitente viridis, alls et cauda albo maculatis ; macula infra oculos, altera supra lora fulvis ; gutture toto et 

 torque cervicali fulvescenti-albidis ; corpora toto subtus reliquo rufescenti-castaneo, subalaribus concoloribus. 



Hob. NiCAEAGUA, Greytown {.Holland ^, Bichmond ^), Escondido R. {Richmond ^) ; 

 Panama, Veraguas {ArcS), Lion Hill {M'Leannan^^), Turbo {C. J. Wood^). — 

 South America, Ecuador, Peru, Amazonia, Guiana, and Eastern Brazil ^. 



Though one of the long-known species of the Kingfishers of America, having been 

 figured as long ago as 1764 by George Edwards, Ceryle inda is certainly the rarest of 

 the species of our region, if not of Tropical America generally. Its range, too, is more 

 limited, as we have not been able to trace it beyond Eastern Nicaragua near Greytown 

 and the Escondido or Blewfields river of the Mosquito Territory. Though doubtless 

 found in Costa Eica, we have not yet met with an authentic record of its occuiTence. 

 In the State of Panama it has been noticed several times, and in South America its 

 range traced over the whole of that portion lying eastwards of the Andes and as far 

 south as Bahia on the coast of Brazil. 



6. Ceryle superciliosa. 



Little Green and Orange-coloured Kingfisher, Edwards, Glean. Nat. Hist. i. p. 73, t. 245 \ 



Alcedo superciliosa, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 179 (1766) ^ 



Ceryle superciliosa, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 227'; 1859, p. 387*; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 53'; 



Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 131" ; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 363'; 1870, p. 837 ^ Cassin, Pr. Ac. 



Phil. 1860, p. 134' ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 290'°; ix. p. 204"; Bull. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. no. 4, p. 30"; Sharpe, Mon. Alced. p. 93, t. 28"; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. 



p. 138 " ; V. Fiantz. J. f , Orn. 1869, p. 311 " ; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 239 " ; Nutting, 



