BIBDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 411 



black streaks on pileum much broader, and wing-coverts (sometimes 

 feathers of other upper parts also) with distinct (sometimes quite 

 broad) mesial cimeate streaks of black. 



Young female. — Similar to the young male (as described) but 

 under wing-coverts wholly cinnamon-rufous, and white pectoral 

 band more distinct. 



; Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Tampico; Alta Mira; Rio Mar- 

 tinez; Rio de la Cruz; Rio Corona), Nuevo Le6n (Rio de Bo; Rio 

 Grande), Sinaloa (MazatUn), Hidalgo (Re^l del Monte), Vera Cruz 

 (Jalapa; Tlalcotalpdm; Gutierrez Zamora; Paso de la Milpa; Vega de 

 Aletorre; Santa Ana; Rio Rancho Nuevo), Oaxaca (Chihuitfin; Santa 

 Efig6nia; Ttixtepec; Rincon Antonio), Tabasco (Teapa), and Chiapas 

 (Huehuetto; Tonalfi) and Territory of Tepic (San Bias), and south- 

 ward through Guatemala (Choctlim; Pet6n; Rio Dulce; Lanquln; 

 Huamach&l; San Jos6; Los Amates), Salvad6r, British Honduras 

 (Belize; Cayo); Honduras (Omoa; San Pedro; Rio Seg6via), Nica- 

 ragua (Managua; Ometepe; Sucuyfi,; San Juan del Sur; Momotombo; 

 Rio Escondido), Costa Rica (Rio Frio; Orosi; Navarro; Jimenez; 

 Gu&cimo; Agua Caliente; La Palma de Nicoya; Barranca de Punta 

 Arenas; Liberia; Pozo Aztil de Pirrls; Paso Real; Pozo del Rio 

 Grande; Bols6n) to Panama (Lion Hill; Divala, and Boquer6n 

 Chiriquf; Rio Trinidad; San Miguel Island), and southward over 

 greater part of South America, from Colombia to Trinidad, Guianas, 

 Paraguay (Asunci6n; Tayru; Fuerte Olimpo), Uruguay (Concepci6n; 

 Santa Elena), Argentina (Buenos Aires; Entre Rios; Lomas de 

 Zamora; C6rdova; Estancia Espartilla; Santa Ana; Lules; Orto, 

 Salta; Tucumdn; Mocovl, Chaco; Barracas al Sud; lower Rio Pil-^ 

 comayo), Bolivia (Reyes; Caiza; Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Chiquitos), 

 and Peru (Lima; Rio Rimac; Rio Cadena, Cuzco). 



[Alcedo] torquata Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 180 (Mexico, based on Le 

 Martin-pescheur hupe du Mexique Brisson, Orn., iv, 518, pi. 41, fig. 1). — 

 Gmblin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 452.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 256. 



Akedo torquata Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 69. — Vibillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., xix, 1818, 399, part ("Louisiana"). — Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Max. 

 Veg., 1830, 1; Journ. fflr Orn., 1863, 55 (Mexico).— Lesson, Traits d'Om., 

 1831, 242. — Cabanis, in Schomburgk's Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 703. — 

 ScHXEGEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, no. 17, 1863, 4, part (Brazil; Caracas, Vene- 

 zuela; Surinam; no. 39 (Rev. Crit.), 1874, 1. 



C[eryle] torquata Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 139 (David, Panama). 



Ceryk torqitata Bonapaete, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 108 (Mexico). — Haet- 

 LAUB, Index Azara's Apunt., 1847, 26. — Geat, List Fissirostr. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., 1848, 61.— Cassin, Cat. Halcyonidse Mus. PMla. Acad., 1852, 2; Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 133.— Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 202 

 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 1860, 284 (Babahoyo, w. Ecuador). — Pblzeln, Sitz. 

 Ak. Wien, 1856, 514; Orn. Bras., i, Abth., 1868, 23; iv. Abth., 1870, 404.— 

 MoDEB, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 53 (Omoa, Hondiu-as; Peten, Guate- 

 mala). — ScLATBE and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 131 (Rio Dulce, Guatemala); Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 363 (Lion Hill, Panama); 1866, 191 (Lower Ucayali, 



