TROGON BEHNI.
Behn’s Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Trog. supra splendid? aurato-viridis,

cupreo nitens ; uropygio, supracaudahbus et rectricibus
duabus mediis splendide v

widibus, his nigro apicaliter Jasciatis

3; duabus proximis nigris extis
re. ee
splendidé viridibus, reliquis

mgris albo terminatis et albo transversim fasciatis ; alis nig?ris,
tectricibus alarum minimis dorso concoloribus, reliquis autem et secundariis externe cinerets

minutissime nigro fimbriatis, primariis anguste albido limbatis ;
superiore cyanescenti-viridibus, his cupreo nitentibus ; fronte,
gutture toto nigris ; torque pectorali albo distincto ;
chondriis cinereis ; tibiis nigris ; subalaribus et ald

pileo cum cervice et pectore
loris et facie laterali cum
corpore reliquo subtis coccineo, hypo-

subtis cinerascenti-nigris, ills interioribus
et rectricibus versus basin pogonii interni albis.

1 a : co : :
Adult male-—Crown of head, hind neck, and _ breast shining bluish green, with a golden

gloss on the sides of the neck and breast, the lores, sides of face, and throat black ; across
the upper breast a white band; the remainder of the underparts crimson, the sides of the

body grey; the thigh-feathers black; entire back and scapulars bright coppery green,

with a golden gloss, shading off into metallic grass-green on the rump and upper tail-

coverts ; the smaller wing-coverts golden green like the back, the rest, as well as the outer

web of the secondaries, grey, most finely and delicately freckled with blackish vermicu-
lations, the remainder of the wing black, the primaries with a narrow external ec ging of
white ; two centre tail-feathers green, with a coppery gloss, and having a tolerably broad
terminal band of black; the next two feathers black, with only the outer web coppery
green; the rest black, broadly tipped with white, and distinctly banded across with white,
the number of white bars increasing more on the outer feathers; under wing-coverts and

inner lining of wing greyish black, the innermost of the former and the inner base of the
quills white.

Total length 9 inches ; culmen 2; wing 47; tail 5; tarsus }.

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Trogon behni. Gould, MSS.

 

Wuen Professor Behn, of Kiel, returned from Ameriea, he passed through London and showed me a
Trogon, which he kindly left with me as a new and undescribed species. I saw at once that it was a striking
bird and was remarkable for some red feathers in its crown. These, however, proved to have been
surreptitiously added, as might have been expected ; for nature would never have acted so inharmoniously as
to have decorated any one of these green Trogons, all of them so perfectly of one type, with such an anomaly
as ared crown! But, on mature consideration, I came to the conclusion that the species was distinct on
other grounds; and I had a sketch of it prepared, and proposed to name the species after the discoverer :
this promise I now fulfil.

During the long interval that has elapsed since the Plate was drawn, two specimens uave Co my
notice—one brought by Mr. Brydges from Bolivia, the other sent from Peru by Mr. Whitely. The latter
bird is in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, and has much of the appearance of an old Trogon
variegatus, being considered by Mr. Salvin to belong to that species. The Bolivian bird, however, is
different, in the head and chest being green and not blue, while the back is of the richest bronzy or coppery
green. As there is some doubt as to the Peruvian specimen, I wish it to be understood Le the Bolivian
bird, is the typical Trogon behni. This is the bird described in the present ‘ Monograph ;’ and the illustra-
tion here given has been prepared from the same see ae. o aoe

The principal figure in the Plate is of the size of life. I regret that, by a misprint, the title has been

rendered Trogon behmi instead of 7. behni.

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