TRO GON TENE LLU s, Cabanis.

Graceful Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER,

Trog. splendideé aurato-viridis, capite et jugulo v

iv saturatioribus ; Jronte angustd, loris et facie
lateral cum gutture toto nigris ;

fascia pectorali albd viv distinctd ; corpore reliquo subtis
lete aurantiaco-flavo ; ald mugra, primarus anguste albo limbatis ; tectricibus alarum minimis
dorso concoloribus, reliquis et secundariis extus albido transversim v

ermiculatis ; rectricibus
duabus mediis cuprescenti-aureis nigro terminati

8, duabus proximis nigris extis cuprescenti-

aureis, reliquis versus basin pogonii interni nigris, albo late terminatis et albo late JSasciatis.
Rostrum flavum, versus basin virescens.

Adult Male.—Above metallic green, richer on the head, upper breast, rump, and upper tail-

coverts, and having a slightly golden appearance on the back and sides of the breast ;
a narrow frontal line, lores, sides of the face, and throat black ; least Wing-coverts green,
like the back, the remainder coarsely vermiculated with greyish white and black lines,
as also are the secondaries ; all the rest of the coverts and quills black, the primaries
narrowly edged with white externally ; centre tail-feathers of a burnished copper-colour,
with a terminal band of black, the next two black on the inner web and at the tip and
coppery on the outer web only ; three outer tail-feathers broadly tipped with white and
banded with black and white, the bases of the inner webs black, gradually imcreasing in
extent towards the centre of the tail; under surface of body beautiful orange-yellow, paler
and whiter near the green of the breast, forming a very indistinet pectoral band.
Total length 95 inches ; wing 4; tail 6; tarsus 2.

Trogon tenellus, Cab. J. f. O. 1862, Dee lee
atricollis, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 364.—Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 83.

 

I wexieve this species to be distinct from Trogon atricollis, though undoubtedly very closely allied. It is a
smaller bird, and is to be further distinguished by the more distinct white barring of the tail-feathers, the
white bars being rather wider than the alternate black ones.

“This race of Zrogon atricollis was first characterized by Dr. Cabanis in the ‘ Journal fiir Ornithologie’
for 1862, from a single example of a young male included in the collection formed in Costa Rica by Drs.
Hoffmann, von Frantzius, and Ellendorf, which first made us acquainted with the ornithological riches of
that, up to that time, unexplored country. Since this first specimen was obtained numerous others have
been sent from Costa Rica, where it would appear to be by no means rare in certain districts. Other
localities, mentioned in Mr. Lawrence’s list of Costa-Rica birds, published in the ‘ Annals of the Lyceum of
New York’ in 1868, are Guiatil, Barranca, Angostura and Pacuare.

‘* Costa Rica, however, is not the most northern point of the range of this bird; for Mr. Belt, the author
of the interesting book ‘The Naturalist in Nicaragua,’ found it during his stay at the ES of Chontales:

‘Writing of it and of 7. caligatus, he says (p. 122):—‘ Both species take short, quick, Jerky flights, and
are often met with along with flocks of other birds—Flycatchers, LOLae ess, Creepers, W oodpeckers, &c.,
that hunt together, traversing the forests in flocks of hundreds belonging to more than a score of
different species... . . The Flycatchers and Trogons sit on branches and Ly after the larger insects, the
Flycatchers taking them on the wing, the Trogons from the leaves on which they have as In the
breeding-season the Trogons are continually calling out to each other, and are thus easily discovered.

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They are called << viadas ” (that is, ‘‘ widows”’) by the Spanish.

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