The Birds of North and Middle America Volume 6; A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher Groups, Genera, Species, and Subspecies of Birds Known to Occur in North America, from the Arctic Lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and Other Islands of T (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...Journ. fur Om., 1855, 423. Chloroceryle leucostriata Reichenbach, Handb., Alced., 1851, 27, pi. 414, figs. 3116, 3117 (Guiana; coll. Dresden Mus.). Chloroceryle leucostriata Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 406, footnote. CHLOROCERYLE AMERICANA ISTHMICA (Goldman). ISTHMIAN GREEN KINGFISHER. Similar to C. a. americana but larger, bill much stouter; blackish submalar stripe narrower (often indistinct or interrupted); breast less heavily spotted with greenish black, and general color of upper parts decidedly less bluish green; adult male with foreneck white, like throat (instead of chestnut-rufous, like chest). Adult male.--Above, including sides of head (except malar region), dark metallic bronze-green, darker and duller (more sooty) on pileum, especially the forehead, interrupted by a white collar across hindneck, the scapulars and interscapulars extensively white basally (the white concealed), the feathers of rump with concealed white spots; forehead sometimes (but rarely) more or less freckled with whitish; wingcoverts usually immaculate, but sometimes with a few minute spots or streaks of white; secondaries with a subbasal narrow band of white, continuous across both webs, this white increasing in extent on inner secondaries where it involves approximately the whole basal half; about midway between this band and tip of secondaries another band, composed of small white spots confined to outer portion of outer web, this followed by another one (sometimes very indistinct or obsolete) of much smaller white spots, while usually each secondary has a minute white terminal spot or edging; inner primaries usually with a single small white spot on outer web anterior to middle portion; middle pair of rectrices mostly blackish, glossed with bluish or bluis...