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form rufous; outer webs of quills without white spotting at base. 
Adult male: Lower tail-coverts and anal region pure white, and rufous 
of belly covering breast, and reaching to white of throat. Adult female: 
Lower tail-coverts and anal region rufous; breast plumbeous-blue, usu- 
ally bordered behind by white. Length about 15.50-17.00, wing about 
7.50. Hab. Tropical America in general (except West Indies), north to 
southern Mexico, accidentally to southern Texas. 
[390.1.] C. torquata (Linn.). Great Rufous-bellied Kingfisher.’ 
b*. Wing less than 7.00, culmen less than 3.00; belly white; outer webs of quills 
spotted with white toward base. Adult male: Above bluish plumbeous, 
the tail transversely spotted with white, and basal half of primaries 
coarsely spotted with same; a white spot on sides of forehead, above 
lores; lower parts pure white, interrupted by a broad band of bluish 
plumbeous across breast; white of throat encircling hind-neck. Adult 
female: Similar to the male, but sides and flanks, and a more or less 
strongly indicated (never complete?) band across belly, rufous. Young: 
Similar to adult, but the male with the breast-band and sides tinged with 
rusty. Length 11.00-14.50, wing 6.00-6.50, tail 3.80-4.30, culmen 2.00, 
or more. ggs 1.34 1.05. Hab. Whole of North America, and south 
to Panama and the West Indies. 
390. C. alcyon (Linn.). Belted Kingfisher. 
a. Wing less than 4.00; tarsus longer than hind-toe, and almost as long as inner 
anterior toe; plumage metallic greenish above. (Subgenus Chloroceryle 
Kavp.) 
Adult female: Above dark metallic bottle-green, interrupted by a whito 
collar across hind-neck, the secondaries, primaries, and tail spotted with 
white, in transverse series; lower parts pure white, interrupted by a 
band of dark metallic green across breast; sides spotted with dark 
greenish, these spots continued as an interrupted band across belly. 
Adult male: Similar to the female, but green band across breast replaced 
by one of deep rufous; no green spots across belly. Young male: Similar 
to adult female, but breast more or less tinged with rusty. Length 6.75- 
8.50, wing 3.40-3.50, tail 2.70-2.75, exposed culmen 1.65-1.85. Hggs 
.96 X.73. Hab. Middle America and northwestern South America, north 
to southwestern border of United States (southern Texas to Arizona), 
south to western Peru. 
391. C. americana septentrionalis SHarre. Texan Kingfisher. 
1 Alcedo torquata Linn., 8. N. ed. 12, i, 1766, 180. Ceryle torquata Bonap., P. Z. S. 1837, 108. 
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