﻿CERYLE AMAZONIA. 



(AMAZON GREEN KINGFISHER.; 



Alcedo amazona, 

 Ceryle amazona, 

 Chloroceryle amazona, 

 Chloroceryle amazonia, 

 Ceryle amazonia, 

 Ceryle amazonce, 

 Alcedo vestita, 

 Alcedo rubescens, 

 Chloroceryle leucosticta, 

 Martin-pescador obscuro do 



ada, 



Martin-pescador garganta roxa) 



Lath. Ind. Orn. I, p. 257 (1790). . 

 Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 313. 



Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 28, t. ceccxii, fig. 3110-3111 (1851). 



Cab. and Heine, Mus. Hein. th. II, p. 148 (1860). 



Scl. and Salv. P.Z.S. 1864, p. 363. 



Leot. Ois. de Trinid. p. Ill, (1866). 



Bum. Diet. Sci. Nat. xxix, p. 472. 



Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xix, p. 408 (1818). 



Reich. Handb. Alced. p. 29, t. ccccxiv, fig. 3116-17 (1851). 



Azara, Apunt, No. 419. 



Azara, Apunt, No. 420. 



C. sexibus dissimilibus: dorso ceneo-viridi : gula alba: major: alis extus immaculatis. 

 Hah. in Regione Neotropica. 



Male. Bronzy-green above ; head crested ; a large band of feathers commencing from 

 the base of the bill, and encircling the neck, white ; quills blackish, edged externally with 

 bronzy-green, the inner web white at the base and waved with bronzy -green markings on 



Additional References. — Alcedo amazona, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xix, p. 339 (1818), Bon. et Vieill. 

 Encl. Meth. I, p. 292 (1823), Wied. Beitg. Naturg. Bras. IV, p. 12. (1832), Tsch. Faun. Peruan. p. 254 (1844). 

 Hartl. Ind. Azar." p. 26 (1847), Cab. Schomb. Reis. in Guian. II. p. 704 (1848), Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Alced. p. 5 

 (1863). Ceryle amazona Gray Gen. of Birds, I, p. 82 (c. 1844), Gray, Cat. Fiss. Brit. Mus. p. 62 

 (1848), Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 160 (1850), Cass. Cat. Hale. Phil. Mus. p. 3 (1852), Licht. Nomencl. A v. p. 

 27 (1854), Sclater, P.Z.S. 1855, p. 136, Pelz. Sitz. Akad. Wien, 1856, p. 515, Moore, P.Z.S. 1859, p. 53, Caes. 

 Proc. Phil. Acad. 1860, p. 133, Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 195, Miiller, Reis. in Mex. Ill, p. 563 (1865), Salv. P.Z.S. 

 1867, p. 152, Scl. and Salv. P.Z.S. 1867, p. 978, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 23 (1868). Choloceryle amazona, Bonap. 

 Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 10 (1854), Burm. Th. Bras. II, p. 405 (1856), id. La Plata Reise, II, p. 446(1861), Sclater, 

 Cat. Am. Birds, p. 265 (1862) Ceryle amazonia, Scl. and Salv. P.Z.S. 1866, p. 192, id. P.Z.S. 1867, pp. 279, 

 581. Alcedo vestita, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 242 (1831), Puch. Rev. de Zool. 1853, p. 386, Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. 

 1855, p. 423. Alcedo rubescens, Bon. et Vieill. Encl. Meth. I, p. 392 (1823). Choloceryle leucosticta, Burin. Th. 

 Bras. II p. 406, note (1856). 



