420 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Megaceryle alcyon Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 327, part. 



Ceryle (Megaceryle) alcyon Baird, Eep. Pacific R. R. Svirv., ix, 1858, p. xxix, part. 



[Streptoceryle] alcyon Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 320 (Conep. Volucr. 



Anisod., 1854, 10). — ^Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mue. Hein. Om., 1890, 



165 (Jalapa). 

 S[treptoceryle] alcyon Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1860, 151 (Jalapa). 

 {1)Streptoceryle alcyon Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 162 (Costa Rica). 

 Chloroceryle alcyon Sclateb, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 264 (Eastern United States). 

 (l)Alcedo guam Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., six, 1818, 406 ("Brazil"). 

 Alcedo jaguacati Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat., i, 1816, 455 (Hudson Bay to Brazil; 



based on PI. Enl. 593 and 715). 

 [Megaceryle] domingenm Reichenbach, Handb., Alced., 1851, 24, pi. 410, fig. 



3105. 

 Ispida ludoviciana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 452 (Based on Martin- 



pecheur de la Louisiana Daubenton, PI. Enlum. no. 715; Crah Catcher Sloan, 



Jam. ii, p. 313, no. 54, pi. 55, fig. 3). 



STREPTOCERYLE ALCYON CAURINA (Grinnell). 

 WESTERN BELTED KINOFISHER. 



Similar to 8. a. alcyon, but averaging decidedly larger (except feet), 

 and wing-tip relatively longer. 



^duZimaZe.— Length (skins), 284-320 (306); wiag, 159-169 (163.1); 

 tail, 88-96.5 (92.1); exposed culmen, 55-64 (59.3); tarsus, 11-12.5 

 (11.4); middle toe, 14-16 (15.4).» 



Advlt female.— Length, (skins), 290-330 (315) ; wing, 159-169.5 

 (165.5); tail, 88-101 (93.3); exposed culmen, 53-71 (59.6); tarsus, 

 10.5-12 (11.4); middle toe, 15.5-17 (16.2).6 



Western North America, east to and including Rocky Mountains; 

 north to northern Alaska (valleys of Kowak and Yukon Rivers, 

 shores of Norton Sound, etc.) and Yukon Territory (Yukon Valley); 

 south to western Mexico, in States of Lower California (said not to 

 breed in Cape San Lucas district), Sonora, (3iihuahua (Chihuahua 

 City, March, October), Sinaloa (Mazatlin, resident?), Tres Marias 

 Islands (resident?) and Durango (Chacala, February). 



Alcedo aXeyon (not of Linnseus) Audubon, Om. Biog., i, 1831, 394, part; Synopsis, 

 1839, 173, part; Birds Am., oct. ed., iv, 1842, 205, part. — Pat.TiAS, Zoogr. 

 Rosso-As., i, 1831, 437 (North Pacific Russian Islands and western shores of 

 Arctic America). — ^Vigors, Zool. Beechey's Voy., 1839, 16 (San Francisco, 

 California). — Schalow, Joum. fur Cm., 1891, 257 (Sitka, Alaska). 



Ceryle alcyon Cassin, lUustr. Birds CaUf., Tex., etc., 1856, 254, part. — Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 158, part (Alaskan, Wash., Calif., and 

 NewMex., localities; crit.); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 117, part. — Cooper 

 and SucKLEY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. ii, 1860, 167 (Washington; 

 Oregon).— Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 275 (Sitka; 

 Yukon Valley, up to Fort Yukon; habits). — Cooper, Om. Calif., 1870, 337.— 

 FiNSCH, Abh. Nat. Ver. Brem.. iii, 1872, 29 (Alaska). — Grayson, Proc. 

 Best. Soc. N. H., xiv, 1872, 71 (Tres Mariaa Islands). — Coues, Check list, 

 1873, no. 286, part; 2d ed., 1882, no. 382, part; Birds Northwest, 1874, 372, 



o Eighteen specimens. 6 Fifteen specimens. 



