TROGON VIRIDIS, Zann.

Black-winged Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Mas. Capite supra guttureque violaceo-purpureis.

Foem. Supra et ad pectus saturate plumbeo-cinereus.

Male.—Bill bluish grey ; crown of the head and chest rich violet purple ; back and rump rich
metallic green ; upper tail-coverts blue; two middle tail-feathers green with a tinge of
purple, two next on each side black on the inner web, and greenish purple on the outer ;
the three outer feathers on each side black at their base and white at their tips ; wings

black ; abdomen and under tail-coverts rich orange.

Total length from 10; to 11} inches, bil/ 12, wing 5% to 5;, tail 63.

Female.—Head, chest, and all the upper surface deep leaden grey ; wings brownish black ;
secondaries and scapularies transversely striated with fine lines of white; abdomen and
under tail-coverts orange ; three outer tail-feathers on each side brownish black, tipped and
barred with white.

Trogon Cayanensis cinereus, Briss. Orn., tom. iv. p. 165, pl. xvi. fig. 1.

Couroucou de Cayenne, Buff. Pl. Enl. 195.

Trogon strigilatus, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 167.

——— viridis, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 167.—Vieill. Ency. Méth. Orn., part ii. p. 1861.—
Less. 'Traité d’Orn., p. 119.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 69, Trogon, sp. 3.—
Burm. Syst. Uebers. Th. Bras., tom. i. p. 277.—v. Pelz. Orn. Bras., p. 20.

Couroucou a ventre jaune, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Promér. et Guép., 1i.—Couroue. et Tourac., p. 8,
pls. 3 & 4.

albane, Levaill. ibid., p. 10, pl. 5.
Trogon leverianus, Shaw, Mus. Lever., p. 175.—Vieill. Ency. Méth. Orn., pt. i. p. 1360.—Gray
and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 70, Trogon, sp. 21.
violaceus, Spix, Av. Bras., tom. i. p.50.—Wied, Beitr. Nat. Gesch. Bras., tom. iv. p. 297.
melanopterus, Swains. Two Cent. and a Quart., p. 332.—Id. Class. of Birds, vol. 1.
p. 337.—Gould, Mon. of Trog., pls. 10 & II.
“Trogon albiventer, Cuv.,” Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., tom. i. p. 148, im syn. Trogon, sp. 3.

Aganus viridis, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 196.

 

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