BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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FAMILY 

 ALCEDINIDjE. 



Subfamily, ALCEDININ^. 



Genus: CERYLE. Boie. 

 CERYLE: BOIE, ISTS, p. 316, 1S2S. 



CERYLE ALCYON. Linn. 



Alccdo alcyon. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. p. 180 (1766). — Wils., Am. 

 Orn., III. p. 59 (181 1). — Aud., Orn. Biog., I. p. 384, pi. 

 lxxvii. (1831). — Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XI. p. 95, 

 1866. 



Ceryle alcyon. Boie, Isis, p. 316 (1828). — Salle, P. Z. S., 1857, p. 

 233. — Bd., Bds. N. Am., p. 158 ( 1 858). — Cooper, Orn. Cal, I. 

 P- 337 (1870).— Finsch., Abh. Nat, III. p. 29 (1872). — Allen, 

 Bds. Fla., p. 300. — Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., N. Am. Bds., II. p. 

 392 (1S74). — Gund., Anal, de la Soc. Esp. de Hist. Nat., 

 Tomo VII. p. 218 (1878). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 115 

 (1880). — Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI. p. 154 (18,81). 



Ispida ludoviciana. " Gm., Syst. Nat., I. p. 452 (1788)." 



" Streptoceryle alcyon. Cab., Mus. Hein., II. p. 151." 



Sp. Char., Male. — Above, ashy blue; head, with crest,, throat, 

 band around the neck, a spot anterior to the eye, belly, and cris- 

 sum, white ; a band across the breast and sides of the body the 



