BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEKICA. 441 



Ceryle superdliosa stictopiera Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., ii, 1905 (pub. 

 April 10, 1884), 95 (Sisal, Yucatan; coll, U. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xiv, 1891, 471 (HonduiaB).^RicHMOND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 

 1893, 511 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua; Rio Frio, n. Costa Rica). 



Cleryle] superdliosa stictoptera Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 17, 

 in text (crit.). 



[Ceryle superdliosa.'] Subsp. a. Ceryle stictoptera Be ar^e, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xvii, 1892, 139, part, pi. 5, fig. 2 (Chimalapa, Oaxaca; Choctum, etc., Guate- 

 mala; Cozumel I.). 



Ceryle xnea stictoptera Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., Nov., 1907, 90 

 (San Jos6, Guatemala). 



[Ceryle\ stictoptera Shaepe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 50, part. 



Superfamily TODl. 

 THE TODIES. 



>!rorfi PuEHBRiNQEH, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., ii, 1888, 1567 (includes Momoti). 

 '^Momotidx Gadow, in Bronn's Thier-Reich, V6g., ii, 1893, 229, 331 (includes 



Momoti). 

 = Todi Sharpe, Rev. Classii. Birds, 1891, 81; Hand-list, ii, 1900, 78. 



Synpelmous, anisodactyle Coraciiformes with myological formula 

 AXY, metastemal notclies open, caeca present, oil-gland tufted, tomia 

 miautely serrated, and primaries 9-10. 



Palate imperfectly desmognathous; nares holorhinal, impervious; 

 basipterygoid processes and vomer absent; cervical vertebrae 15; 

 metastemum 4-notched, the notches all open posteriorly; spina 

 externa stemi present, spina interna absent; manubrium stemi 

 with tendency to bifurcation; syrinx tracheo-bronchial; two carotid 

 arteries; caeca present, large; flexor tendons of type V6, the hallux 

 connected with the flexor perforans digitorum; intestinal convolu- 

 tions of type VI; myological formula AXY; expansor secundariorum 

 and accessory semitendinosus muscles present; spinal pteryla well 

 defined on neck, not forked on back (no dorsal apterium) ; oil-gland 

 tufted; adult downs absent; primaries 9-10; rectrices 12. 



Family TODIDiE. 



THE TODIES. 



<^Todidx Vigors, Zool. Journ., ii, Oct., 1825, 393 (includes Murylaimus, etc.). 



= Todidx Sclatbr, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 263; Ibis, 1872, 180.— Bryant, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., X, 1866, 250.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 79.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 103. — Stbjnbger, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 

 1885, 395, 399, in text.— Fuerbringeb, Unters. Morpb. Syst. Vog., ii, 1888, 

 1354, 1567.— Beddabd, Struct, and Olassif. Birds, 1898, 213.— Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 78. 



<.Todinae Carus and Gerstaeckbr, Handb. Zool., i, 1868, 265 (includes Platy- 

 rhynchus, Triccus, Euscarthmus, Colopterus, and Cyanotis). 



= Todinae Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 182.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 79. — 

 Gadow, Bronn's TMer-Reich, Vog., ii, 1891, 230, 301. 



The characters of this family are the same as those of the super- 

 family Todi, as given above. 



