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northern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to the southern border of 

 United States; winters from British Columbia, Nebraska, Illinois, 

 Indiana, Ohio, and Virginia south to the West Indies, Colombia, and 

 Guiana, and irregularly as far north as Massachusetts, New Hamp- 

 shire, and Ontario. 



[Ceryle torquata (Linn^us). Ringed Kingfisher. [390.1.] 



Alcedo torquata LinNjEtts, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 180. ("Martinica, 

 Mexico.") 



Range. — Tropical Mexico and southward to southern Brazil; 

 casual on Lower Rio Grande, Texas.] 



Subgenus CHLOEOCERTLE Kaup. 



Chloroceryk Kaup, Verb, naturhist. Vereins Hessen, II, 1848, 68. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Alcedo amazona Latham (Gray, 1855). 



Ceryle americ^a (Gmelin). 



Range. — Northern Mexico south to northern Argentina. 



a. [Ceryle americana americana. ExtraUmital.] 



b. Ceryle americana septentrion&lu Sharfe. Texas Kingfisher. [391.1] 



Ceryle septentrionalis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 134. 

 (Type locality not given.) 



Range. — Southern Texas and Sinaloa, Mexico, south to Panama. 



