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Purple-breasted Trogon.

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SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Viridis ; capite summo et pectore Superiore purpureis, fronte megricante ; tectricibus alarum et
secundariis extiis nigro alboque flexuose minute vermiculatis, remigibus reliquis saturate

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brunneis, extus albido limbatis; rectricibus duabus intermediis chalybeo-viridibus nigro

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terminatis, duabus proximis ngris extus viridibus, reliquis nigris, late albo terminatis et

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versus apicem late nigro et albo transfasciatis ; corpore reliquo subtius saturate coccineo ;

tibiis nigres.

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Irides saturate brunnee ; rostrum flavicanti-album ; pedes cerulescenti-cineret.
Foem. fuliginoso-cinerea, caudd brunneo tinctd ; alarum tectricibus albo fasciatis ; pectore infe-

riore albo ; rectricibus tribus externis utrinque extis albis nigro fasciatis.

Male.—Bill yellowish white; head and chest metallic purple merging into black on the
forehead ; ears, throat, back, and upper tail-coverts green ; wing-coverts and secondaries
minutely waved with zig-zag markings of black and white ; two centre tail-feathers
steel-green, tipped with black, the two next on each side black, with their outer edges
green ; the three outer feathers on each side black at the base and barred with white and
black, ending in a square mark of white; the whole of the under surface deep scarlet ;
thighs black ; tarsi bluish grey ; irides very dark brown.

Female. —Head, chest, and upper surface of body dark sooty-grey, the wing-coverts distinctly
barred with white ; upper part of the abdomen white, merging into scarlet on the belly
and under tail-coverts; tail deep sooty-grey with a tinge of brown, the three outer
feathers barred with black on their outer edges.

Total length 9 inches; wing 4; tail 5; tarsi 3.

Trogon variegatus. Spix, Av. Bras. 1. p. 49, taf. 38 ~.—Gould, Monogr. Trogon. ed. 1, pl. 5.
—Gray, Hand-l. B. 1. p. 83.—Scel. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 104.
purpuratus. Swains. An. in Menag. p. 330.

Trogonurus variegatus. Bp. Consp. Voluer. Zygod. p. 14.

purpuratus. Ese: Gee ea
Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 199.

 

Hapalophorus variegatus.

 

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Tus species has an extensive range over a large portion of the empire of Brazil, though it is doubtles

found in the wooded rather than the open campos of that vast area. It is somewhat remarkable that Prince

Maximilian von Neuwied makes no mention of it in his well-known works, especially as it seems to be by
no means uncommon in the vicinity of Bahia, which was one of his chief collecting-grounds. Here it was
that Swainson obtained the specimens he subsequently described as Trogon purpuratus, the types of which

are still preserved in the museum of the University of Cambridge; and from the same district skins are sent

in some numbers in the vast collections of bird-skins so constantly forwarded to Europe.
it may be doubted if Zrogon variegatus extends its range into

Though common in the province of Bahia, Sits ‘

the more southern provinces of Brazil ; but it certainly spreads over the central and western districts, as we

as throuchout the valley of the Amazons. Natterer, to whom alone we are indebted for any knowledge of
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the birds of the distant Brazilian province of Matogrosso, found it both at Cuyaba, Villa Maria, and Mato-
] ing 7 adeir cain met with it at Barra do Rio Negro, and
grosso, and then, after journeying down t adeira, he again ero,

subsequently at Cajutuba, near eaiede

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Mr. E. Bartlett secured specimens during his visit to the Upper