TROGON RAMONIANUS,

Ramon De la Sagra’s Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
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Mas.—Facie mgra ; vertice et pectore resplendenti-ceruleis ; abdomine aurantiaco 3 als nigris ;

rectricibus tribus externis utrinque nigris, fasciis albis regulariter ornatis ad apicem singulis
albis.

Male.—F ace, ear-coverts and throat black ; head, nape and gorget across the breast deep rich
purplish blue, passing, in some specimens, into ereen on the outer edges; back and
scapularies bronzy green, passing into pure green on the lower part of the back and upper
tail-coverts ; wing-coverts and secondaries black ; primaries brownish black, slightly fringed
with white ; flanks slaty black ; abdomen and under tail-coverts fine o range-yellow ; thighs
black ; two centre tail-feathers green; the two next on each side green on their outer, and
brownish black on their inner webs ; all six tipped with black ; three lateral feathers on
each side black, conspicuously barred, and largely tipped with white ; bill light horn-colour.

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Total length, 92 inches ; bill, 2; wing, 44; tail, 5+.

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Female.—Head, neck, chest and upper surface brownish black. ; Wing-coverts and secondaries

black, crossed by fine lines of white ; under surface light orange-yellow.

Trogon Ramoniana, Deville et Des Murs in Rey. Zool. 1849, p. 331.—Castelnau, Expéd.
Amér. du Sud, Zool., Ois., p. 33. pl. xi. fig. 2.

 

Tuts bird was first characterized by MM. Deville and O. DesMurs in the “Revue Zoologique” for the year
1849, and was subsequently described and figured in the zoological portion of M. Castelnau’s ‘ Expédition
de Amérique du Sud,” from specimens brought to Europe by that gentleman. Besides ue examples pro-
cured by M. Castelnau, several others have come under my notice ; and I have myself received specimens
from Mr. Hauxwell, which had been obtained on the Upper Amazon, and still more recently others procured
on the river Napo, through the Messrs. Verreaux, of Paris, from which we may gather wai the pane habitat
of the species is the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes ; but over what extent of country it ranges, time and
future research alone can inform us.

M. Castelnau states that his examples were procured at ‘« La Mission de Sarayacu, Pampa del Sacramento,

au Pérou.” eee
The Trogon Ramonianus is an exceedingly well-marked species, and one which cannot be confounded with

any other.
The figures are of the natural size.

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