TROGON ATRICOL LIS, Vieitor.
Black-throated Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Trog. vertice, dorso pectoreque summo viridibus; tectricibus alarum et secundariis extis nigris

cinereo vermiculatis ; primariis extis albido limbatis ; regione paroticd guttureque NIgTIS ;
torque pectorali albo indistincto 3 rectricibus duabus intermediis cuprescenti-viridibus, duabus

proxims nigris extern? viridibus, reliquis mgris albo late terminatis albo et nig?

‘0 trans-
JSasciatis.

Foem. Capite, dorso, gutture et rectricibus sex intermediis brunneis, his mero terminatis ;
rectricibus reliquis obsoletixs Sasciatis ;

3 ventre aurantiaco sordidiore.
Rostrum flavum, vix olivascens.

Adult male.—Beak yellow, clouded with olive; throat and ear-coverts black; chest, top of
head, and entire upper surface green; two centre tail-feathers green, with slight bronzy
reflections, the two next on each side black, with their extreme outer edges of the same
green as the two middle ones, the tips of all being black, the three outer ones on each

side black, tipped with white, and regularly barred on the outer web with black
as well as towards the tip of the inner one; w

delicately freckled with grey ; prim

and white
ing-coverts and secondaries black, finely and
aries black, with a narrow external edging of white ;
under surface fine orange, separ

ated from the throat by an indistinct pectoral band of
white ; feet brown.

Female.—Head, throat, upper surface, and six middle tail-feathers brown, the latter slightly

tipped with black, the remaining tail-feathers as in the male, but not so regularly barred ;

the wing-coverts freckled with brown on a black ground ; the primaries black, margined

on the outer edges with white; under surface orange, but not so pure as in the m

ale.
Total length about 9 or 10 inches ; wing 45; tail 6.

Yellow-bellied Green Cuckoo. Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist. pl. 331.

Couroucou @ queue rousse de Cayenne. Buff. Pl. Enl. 736.

pm CCUG, sluevarll it. Nat. Couroucous, p. 14, pec oO:

Trogon rufus. Gm. 8. N. i. p- 404.

atricollis. Vieill. N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. viii. p- 318.—Id. Gal. des Ois. i. pes
Gould, Monogr. Trogon. pl. 8.—Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 83.—Sel. & Salv. Nomenel.
Av. Neotr. p. 104.

viridis. Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 50 (nec Linn.).

Trogonurus lepturus. Swains. An. in Menag. p. 331.

Trogon chrysochlorus. Natt. & Pelz. Sitz. Akad. Wien, xx. p. 49.—Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 20.

—— sealaris. Licht. in Mus. Berol. (fide Cabanis).
Pothinus atricollis. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 180.

 

 

 

‘THERE can be little doubt,” says Mr. Salvin, ‘‘ that the figures of the old authors, Edwards, Buffon, and
Levaillant, quoted above, all apply to this bird, and also that a strict application of the law of priority points

to the exceedingly inappropriate title of Trogon rufus, bestowed upon it by Gmelin, as the name this bird
ought to bear.

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