440 BULLETIN' 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[ChloroceryU] superdliosa Heine and Rbichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 



164 (Guiana). 

 [Amazonis] superdliosa Bonapakte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854,320 (Consp. Volucr. 



Anisod., 1854, 10). 

 [Ceryle\ stictoptera (not C. superdliosa sticioptera Ridgway) Shaepb, Hand-list, 



ii, 1900, 50, part (Panama). 

 Ceryle superdliosa stictoptera (not of Eidgway) Bangs, Auk, xviii, 1901, 359 



(Divala, Panama). 



CHLOROCERYLE ^ENEA STICTOPTERA (Ridgway). 

 SCHOTT'S KIITGFISHER. 



Similar to 0. x. senea but slightly larger, with buff or white spots 

 on secondaries much larger, forming distinct bands across closed 

 wing, and with concealed portion of feathers of back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts extensively white. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 131-140 (136); wing, 57.5-59 (58.3); 

 tail, 35-39.5 (37.1); culmen, 30.5-34 (32.4); tarsus, 7-8 (7.4); middle 

 toe, 8.5-9 (8.9)." 



Adult female. — ^Length (skins), 122.5-144.5 (133); wing, 60; tail, 

 34-39 (36.5) ; cuhnen, 30-34.5 (32) ; tarsus, 7.5-8 (7.7) ; middle toe, 

 9-9.5 (9 .2) .6 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (San Andres Tuxtla; 

 Playa Vicente; Buena Vista; Pasa Nueva), Oaxaca (Santa Efig^nia; 

 Omealca; Chimalapa), Yucatan (Sisfi,!; Rio Lagartos; Cozum^l 

 Island), Campeche (Jaina), and Chiapas (Huehuetdn), and south- 

 ward through Guatemala (Lake Pet6n; mouth of Rio Salamfi.; Choc- 

 ttim; Santa Cruz; San Jos6), Honduras (San Pedro; Julito), and 

 Nicaragua (Rio Escondido; Grenada) to northeastern Costa Rica 

 (Rio Frio). 



Ceryle superdliosa (not Alcedo superdliosa Linnaeus) Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1857, 227 (San Andres Tuxtla, Vera Cruz; crit.); 1859, 387 (Playa 

 Vicente, Vera Cruz). — ^Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 53 (Lake Peten, 

 Guatemala). — Sclatee and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 131 (Pacific coast distr., Gua- 

 temala; crit.). — ^La WHENCE, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1869, 204 (Sisal, Yucatan); 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 30 (Santa Eflgenia, Oaxaca).— Sumi- 

 CHBAST, Mem. Best. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 560 (tierra caliente of Vera Cruz). — 

 BoucAED, Liste Ois. r^col. Guat., 1878, 26 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1883, 453 (Rio Lagartos, Yucatan).— Salvin, Ibis, 1889, 371 (Cozumel 

 I., Yucatan); 1890, 88 (Cozumell.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Oentr.-Am., 

 Aves, ii, 1895, 478, part (Uvero, etc.. Vera Cruz; Omealca, Chimalapa, etc., 

 Oaxaca; Sisal, etc., Yucatan; Peten, Choctum, and mouth of Bio Salama, 

 Guatemala; San Pedro, Honduras; Rio Escondido, Nicaragua; Rio Frio, 

 Costa Rica).— Lantz, Tians. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 220 (San 

 Jos6, Guatemala). 



[Ceryle'] superdliosa Geay, Hand-list, i, 1869, 98, no. 1193, part. — Sclatee and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 103, part. 



C[hloroceryle'] superdliosa Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 176 ("City o1 

 Mexico" — error). 



<» Seven specimens. 6 Three specimens. 



