and Bahia, and the neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro. John Natterer found it, anne other places, at Mato
Grosso in October, on the river Xié in June, on the Rio Negro in July, and the Rio Sa Usioes in December.

It is now very generally admitted by ornithologists that Linnzeus’s specific name of = must be nere-
after retained for this bird. Swainson’s term me/anopterus would have been a more appropriate appellation ;
but this term, as well as that of eo/aceus assigned to it by Spix, must give place to the prior designation,
however inappropriate it may be. Much confusion has hitherto oases with regard to the synonymy of
this species, a confusion mainly caused by the great difference in the colouring of the sexes, and Mie
numerous changes which take place in the plumage of the young males during the first two years of their
existence. At first the secondaries and wings are crossed with narrow lines of white, and the tails are barred
with white on a black ground. When these tail-feathers are thrown off they are not all shed simultaneously ; :
and thus it frequently happens that two of the outer feathers on one eae resemble those borne by the
older birds, and present a strong contrast to the unshed barred plumes of the opposite side. The upper
surface, too, of the young males is frequently clothed with mingled green and grey feathers, giving them
a totally different appearance from the adults of both sexes

The following remarks on Trogon viridis were given in Bir first edition of this Monograph, and may be
repeated here :—This species gives a preference to dense and impenetrable forests, and like the other members
of its race is solitary and unsocial in its habits. The male may be distinguished from all others by its large
size and by the rich violet colour of its head and chest. The female is more sombre in her colouring, those
parts being of a dusky grey which in the male are resplendent green and violet. Burmeister states that this
is the commonest species of Trogon inhabiting the Brazilian forests, where it is mostly seen sitting solitary
on branches of a moderate height from the ground, and, not being shy, will admit of near approach. Its flight
is soft and slow, and extends to buta short distance before it settles again. Like the Parrots it is considered
good food by the Brazilians. In the stomachs of some specimens which M. Natterer examined were found
the remains of fruit, and an insect nearly allied to Janéis.

“This beautiful Trogon ” says Prince Maximilian of W ied, ‘is perhaps the commonest of all the birds in-
habiting the parts of Brazil visited by me. It is to be found south in the Serra dos Orgaos near Rio, near
Cabo Frio in the Serra de Inua, where it is very numerous, and proceeds as far north as Guiana ; but Azara
did not notice it as occurring in Paraguay. It dwells in the lower as well as in the mountainous forests,

but especially in those near the coast. Its cry, which may be heard everywhere, is a rather short, often-

repeated monosyllabic whistle, gradually descending from a high to a lower tone, and appears to me among

bird-voices to be most like the call of the female Turkey (Meleagris gallopav 0). The bird is so little shy
or so simple that, as Azara tr uthfully remarks, it may be killed with a stick.
less on a naked moderately high branch, with its

It is mostly seen sitting motion-

head drawn in between the shoulders, and its tail hanging
straight down. On uttering its easily imitated cry it will come like our Cuckoo and

at hand ; its flight is noiseless and owl-like. Everywhere abundant, it appe
majestic forests near the coasts than in the Catinga or

alight on a branch near
ars to be more numerous in the

Carasco bushes of the hot and dry interior. In the
Sertong or the inner parts of the province of Bahia it is called Pompéo, in Minas Ger

but in most of the other provinces all the Trogons are called Curucua :
cudos, and, accor ding to W aterton, is termed Bochlora j in Guiana.
countries be short of food, the fles|

raes Capitao do mato;
It is the Mit-not- -nop of the Boto-

Should the traveller in those uncivilized
1 of this bird will prove not unacceptable.”

The Plate represents an adult male anda female, of the natural size. The plant is the Pandanus candelabrum.