i62 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. 



Family ALCEDINIDvE. Kingfishers. 



Bill, long and straight; feet, syndactyle ; toes, four, the middle 

 and outer ones joined, being fastened together for more than half 

 their length ; tarsus, very short and reticulate (scales rounded) in 

 front. 



Back, bluish gray; throat and belly, 



white; a band of bluish gray on the 



.^,.^ breast (male) ; under parts, without 



^"^-^ chestnut brown; sides of the body and 



"^ a band on the belly, chestnut (female). 



Ceryle alcyon. 

 Belted Kingfisher. 

 See No. 187. 



