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GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. xxv 

 Range of the Species. 

 a. Megaceryle. 



1. C. guttata. Confined to the Himalayan subregion. Its extent to the eastward not yet 

 determined, but probably extending into China. 



2. C. lugubris. Confined to Japan. Although treated as a separate species in the 

 ' Monograph,' ornithologists must not consider it more than a local race of rather larger 

 size than C. guttata, and should a large Pied Kingfisher be discovered in China, inter- 

 mediate forms will doubtless be found to connect the two races. 



b. Ceryle. 



3. C. rudis. Found throughout the Ethiopian and Indian Region proper, visiting the 

 south and south-east of Europe. 



c. Ichthy nonius. 



4. C. maxima. Found all over the Ethiopian Region. 



5. C. sharpei. A small form of C. maxima, but presenting apparently good specific cha- 

 racters. At present known only from Gaboon and Congo. 



d. Streptoceryle. 



6. C. torquata. Over the whole of the Neotropical Region, excepting the southern 

 portion, where its place is taken by C. stellata. It ranges as far north as Mexico. 



7. C. stellata. The representative of the foregoing bird in the southern part of the 

 Neotropical Region. It can be scarcely considered more than a local race. 



8. C. alcyon. Replaces C. torquata all over North America, extending southwards as far 

 as Panama and the Antilles. 



e. Chloroceryle. 



9. C. amazonia. Widely extended throughout the Neotropical Region, extending as far 

 north as Mexico, and as far south as La Plata. 



10. C. americana. Coexistent with the former over the Neotropical Region south of 

 the Isthmus of Panama, but replaced by the next species along the western coast of the 

 South-American continent. 



11. C. cabanisi. The representative of C. americana along the western side of South 

 America and through Central America as far north as Texas. 



f. Amazonis. 



12. C. inda. Over the greater part of the Neotropical Region, but not the south. Found 

 also in Central America as far north as Nicaragua. 



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