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TROGON COLLARIS, Fieiu.

Collared Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Supra aurato-viridis ; rectricibus duabus intermediis aurato-viridibus negro terminatis, duabus
proxims nigris extus aurato-viridibus, reliquis nigro alboque transfasciatis ; tectricibus alarum
minimis dorso concoloribus, reliquis et secundariis flexuose mgro alboque vermiculatis ;
primarus nigris extus albo limbatis ; loris, regione parotica gulaque nigris ; gutture et pectore
superiore aurato-viridibus ; torque pectorali albo ; corpore reliquo subtius coccineo.

Trides saturate brunneze ; rostrum flavicanti-aurantiacum ; pedes saturate cinerei.

Foem. Brunnea ; torque pectorali albo ; corpore reliquo subtts coccineo ; tectricibus alarum
brunneis nigro vermiculatis ; rectricibus tribus utrinque extimis nigro lineolatis et punctatis
alboque terminatis.

Rostrum brunnescenti-aurantiacum.

Adult Male.—Crown of the head and whole of the upper surface rich golden green; throat
and ear-coverts black; two middle tail-feathers golden green, the two next on each side
golden green on their outer edge, the inner webs black, and the whole six tipped with
black; the three outer feathers on each side strongly barred with black and white ;
primaries black with their outer edges white ; secondaries and wing-coverts transyersely
waved with zig-zag lines of black and white; a semilunar collar of white separates. the
golden green of the chest from the abdomen, which, with the under tail-coverts, is
scarlet ; bill rich yellowish orange ; irides dark brown ; feet dark grey.

Female.—Wead, chest, and upper surface of body brown; the two middle tail-feathers rich
chestnut-brown, the two next on each side chestnut-brown on their outer webs aud black
on the inner, the three lateral feathers on each side freckled with black and tipped with
white ; a band of white separates the brown of the chest from the abdomen, which is
scarlet as in the male; bill brownish orange.

Total length 9? inches ; bill 3; wing 43; tail 5}; tarsi 3.

Le Couroucou rosalba. Levyaill. H. N. Couroucous, pl. 6.
Trogon collaris. Vieill. N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. viii. p. 820.—Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. 1, t. 5.—
Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 82.—Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 104.
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auratus. Swains. An. in Menag. p. 329.
»—_.._ fosalba, Guy. ‘Hartl, Verz, Mus. Brem. ps i
Trogonurus collaris. Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 14.
Trogon eytoni. Fraser, P. Z. 8. 1856, p. 368.
elegans. Licht. in Mus. Berol. (fide Cabanis).
erythrinus. Licht. in Mus. Berol. (fide Cabanis).
—— curucui, Linn. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 177.
— exoptatus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 179.
— virginalis, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 173.

 

 

 

 

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