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Ceryle torquata stictipennis Ooky, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 103, 133 (Guade- 

 loupe). 



[Ceryle torquata] Subsp. /3. Ceryle stictipennis Sharpe, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 

 1892, 124. 



STREPTOCERYLE ALCYOW ALCYON (Llnnaus). 



BELTED EIHGFISHES. 



Adult male. — ^Above, including sides of head, clear bluish gray 

 (nearly plumbeous), interrupted by a white coUar across hindneck; 

 feathers of pileum (especially those of crest) with a median streak 

 (more or less broad) of black, those of back, wings, etc., with very 

 slender black shaft-streaks; wing-coverts and secondaries usually 

 with a few minute irregular white markings, the latter with portion 

 of outer web next to shaft and most of inner web black; alula, pri- 

 mary coverts, and primaries slate-black, the first edged with bluish 

 gray, the second minutely tipped with white, the primaries with basal 

 haK, more or less, spotted with white, the inner ones, together with 

 the distal secondaries, rather narrowly tipped with white; middle 

 pair of rectrices bluish gray with a median streak of black (this some- 

 times confined to shaft), the latter usually margined on each side by 

 a greater or less number of small white spots; remaining rectrices 

 slate-black or blackish slate, the outer web (except of lateral pair) 

 broadly edged with bluish gray, the inner black portion spotted with 

 white, the inner webs barred with white; outermost rectrix similar 

 but without distinct if any bluish gray edging, the white spots reach- 

 ing to outer margin; a conspicuous supraloral spot of white, and 

 another but smaller white spot immediately beneath eye; posterior 

 portion of malar region, sides of neck, chin, throat, and foreneck 

 immaculate white, the anterior portion of the malar region deep 

 bluish gray or broadly streaked with the same; a broad band of 

 bluish gray across chest; rest of under parts white, the sides and 

 flanks mostly bluish gray. (usually intermixed or flecked with white); 

 axillars, under wing-coverts, and greater part of basal haK (more or 

 less) of inner webs of primaries, immaculate white; inner webs of 

 secondaries white basally, this sometimes broken into spots on distal 

 portion; biU black, sometimes paler (grayish) basally, especially on 

 mandible; iris dark brown; legs and feet livid slate color (in life); 

 length (skms), 276-310 (295); wing, 145-161 (156.3); tail 82-93.5 

 (87.7); exposed cuLnen, 53-61.5 (54.5); tarsus, 11-12 (11.9); middle 

 toe, 14.5-17 (15.6). « 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but with a band (some- 

 times incomplete or interrupted) across lower breast, together with 

 sides, flanks, and axillars, cinnamon-rufous, the innermost imder wing- 

 coverts sometimes tinged or suffused with the same; length (skins), 



"■ Nineteen specimens. 



