﻿Male. Above bronzy -green ; a streak from the nostral to the eye, rufous ; lower part 

 of the back and the exterior web of the wing and tail feathers minutely spotted with white ; 

 interior web of the same irregularly half-banded with white; entire under-surface chesnut- 

 rufous, paler on the chin and sides of the neck; bill black; feet red. Total length 8.8 inches, 

 of bill from front 1.9, from gape 2.5, wing 3.9, tail 2.6, tarsus 0.07, middle toe 0.6, hind 

 toe 0.05. 



Female. Similar to the male, but has the breast crossed by a transverse belt, green 

 mixed with white. 



Hah. Central America ; Nicaragua, Greytown (Holland), Veragua, Panama (Mc Leannan), Turbo 

 ( Wood), Guiana: British Guiana (Schomburgk) , Cayenne (Mus. P. L. Sclater). Amazonia: 



Mexiana, Para ( Wallace), Mammoneira, Guadamor, Matrincham, (batterer), Huallaga River, Peruvian Amazone 



(E. Bartlett). Brazil: Cuyaba (Natter er), Bahia (Wucherer, 171US. 0. Salvin). Island of Santa 



Catherina (mUS. Dresd.) 



This fine species along with Ceryle superciliosa forms the subgenus Amazonis of Reich- 

 enbach, which was considered to be a distinct genus by Bonaparte. This is only one out 

 of many instances in which the last-named Ornithologist admitted genera solely on the 

 ground of a distinct style of coloration and not from any real structural difference. The 

 two species included by him in this genus do not present any variation of form from that of 

 the other' American Green Kingfishers, and are only remarkable in so much that the 

 under surface of the body is entirely rufous. 



Mr. C. J. Wood who obtained this species during the U. S. Isthmus of Darien Expedi- 

 tion observes, that " one specimen was seen in a salt water marsh near the village of Turbo, 

 very quiet and easily approached." 



I am indebted to Mr. Edward Bartlett, whose energetic researches in Eastern Peru 

 have contributed so much to increase our knowledge of the Avi-fauna of that almost inac- 

 cessible part of South America, for the following very interesting note on the habits of this 

 species. 



" The Ceryle inda is very rare on the waters of the Peruvian Amazon, or River 

 Maranon. During the four years I resided there I only obtained two specimens, which I 

 shot in a small brook near Santa Cruz, on the Huallaga River. They are not found on the 

 open waters, but in the densely-covered small streams. The nest is in holes in the banks 

 as in the case of other Kingfishers. This species is extremely shy and difficult to obtain." 



The figures in the plate and the descriptions are from a fine pair in my own collection 

 from Demerara. 



