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b. Upper parts dark metallic-green. 



c. Size larger (wing 130 ; bill 65 mm.) ; sides streaked with green. 



d. Broad band of chestnut across breast. Ceryle amazona $ . 



dd. Band of green across chest. Ceryle amazona O • 



cc. Size small (wing 85 ; bill 45 mm.) ; sides and flanks heavily blotched 

 with sooty-green. 



d. Chest chestnut. Ceryle americana septentrionalis $ . 



dd. Narrow band of green across chest. 



Ceryle americana septentrionalis • 



bb. Upper parts ashy-blue ; pileum streaked with black ; lower parts white, sides 



washed with chestnut. 



c. Blue band across chest. Ceryle alcyon $ . 



cc. Ashy- brown band across chest. Ceryle alcyon 9 • 



198. Ceryle torquata (Linnaeus). 



Alcedo torquata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed., 12, T, 1766, 180. 



Ceryle torquata Bonaparte, P. Z. S., 1 837, 108. — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. 

 Y., IX, 1868, 117 (Costa Rica [Frantzius]). — Frantzius, Jour, fur Orn., 

 1869, 311 (Orosi and Navarro) . — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 

 399 (La Palma de Nicoya). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 

 119 (Liberia, Jimenez). — Chkrrie, Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1891-2, 1893,57 

 (Rio Grande de Terraba). - Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 

 122 (Peje [J. Carmiol], Nicoya [Sir E. Belcher]. — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1895, 474 (Mexico to Chili). — Bangs, Auk, 

 XXIV, 1907, 294 (Paso Real and El Pozo de Terraba, Barranca de Puntarenas 

 [Underwood]). 



Streptoceryle torquata Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 1862, 161 (C. R. [Frantzius]). 



Bangs Collection : Pozo Azul and Bolson (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum : Guacimo (Carriker). One skin. 



This beautiful kingfisher, easily distinguished by its large size, is 

 found along most of the larger streams on both the Caribbean and 

 Pacific lowlands, but does not ascend to any great altitude, never going 

 higher than about 1,000 feet. Their habits of feeding and nesting are 

 the same as the other members of the genus, or rather of the common 

 kingfisher of the United States, except that they do not frequent small 

 streams, and are also almost always to be seen around the brackish 

 lagoons of the Pacific coast. 



199. Ceryle alcyon (Linnaeus). 



Alcedo alcyon LiNN/EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 115. 



Ceryle alcyon Moore, P. Z. S., 1859, 53. — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 

 1868, 117 (Navarro and Cartago [Cooper]). — Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869, 

 311 (Navarro and Orosi). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 125 

 (Costa Rica, May [Cooper]). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, 



