BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEBICA. 437 



[Alcedo] bicolor Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 451 (based on Martin-pkheur 



verd et roux de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 592). — Latham, Index Om., 



i, 1790, 258. 

 Alcedo bicolor Temminck, Cat. Syet., 1807, 69. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 



Nat., xix, 1818, 414 (Cayenne). — Bonnateree and Vieillot, Enc. M6th., 



i, 1823, 290.— Lesson, Trait6 d'Om., 1831, 242. 

 A[lcedo] bicolor Maximilian, Beitrag. Naturg. Bras., iv, 1832, 23. — Cabanis, in 



Schombuigk's Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 704. 

 Ceryle bicolor Kaup, Verb, naturhist. Vereins Hessen, ii, 1848, 68 (Fam. Eisv., 



1848, 8).— Pelzeln, Sitz. Ak. Wien, 1856, 515; Om. Bras., i. abth., 1868, 23. 

 [Ceryle] bicolor Boie, Isis, 1828, 316.— Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 160.— 



Pelzeln, Om. Bras., iv. abth., 1871, 404. 

 C[hloroceryle] bicolor Reichenbach, Handb., Alced., 1851, 28, pi. 414, figs. 3118, 



3119. 

 Chloroceryle JicoZor Buemeisteh, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 406. 

 [Amazonis] bicolor Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 320 (Consp. VoluCr. 



Anisod., 1854, 10). 

 {'i)[Alcedo'\ maculata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 451 (based on Ispida brcu- 



giliensis naevia Brisson, Om., iv, p. 524, no. 25, etc). — Latham, Index Om., 



i, 1790, 258.— Bonnaterrb and Vieillot, Enc. M6th., i, 1823, 293. 



CHLOROCERYLE .ENEA .ffiNEA (Pallas). 



LEAST GREEN EXKTGEISHEB.. 



Adidt male. — ^Above, including sides of head, dark metallic green, 

 darker and less glossy on pUenm, the scapulars (especially the pos- 

 terior ones) with concealed portion extensively white; outer webs of 

 secondaries with distinct (though small) spots of buff or buffy white; 

 primaries dull black or slate-black; tail dark metallic green, bluish 

 green, or greenish blue-black, the inner webs of rectrices (except 

 middle and outer pairs) with a greater or less number of white spots, 

 the three outer rectrices wholly white basaUy, the fourth partly so ; 

 an elongated supraloral spot of ochraceous-bufE; an indistinct whitish 

 mark beneath lower eyelid; malar region and sides of neck clear 

 orange-tawny, fading on chia and throat iuto orange-buff, deepening 

 on lower foreneck, chest, sides of breast, sides, and flanks into bright, 

 deep, orange-rufous or rufous-chestnut; median portion of breast, 

 abdomen, anal region, and under wing-coverts immactdate white; 

 axiUars and under wing-coverts clear ochraceous-buff or orange- 

 buff; inner webs of secondaries mostly white or pale buff ; bill black, 

 the basal portion of gonys Hght colored (pinkish or flesh colored in 

 life); iris dark brown; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 120-145 (132); wing, 54.5-59 (57); tail, 31.5-36.5 (35.1); 

 cuhnen, 26-36 (31); tarsus, 6.5-8 (7.2); inner anterior toe, 7.5-9.5 

 (8.1).« 



Adidt female. — Similar to the adult male but orange-tawny of 

 foreneck separated from the deep orange-rufous or rufous-chestnut 



" Twenty-two Bpecimena. 



