TROGON PERSONATUS, Gow.

Black-faced Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Trog. vertice, corpore superiore et pectore splendidé aureo-viridibus ; loris, plumis auricularibus,
et gutture ngris ; rectricibus caude duabus intermediis ex aureo virescenti-fuscis, ad apicem
mgris; utrinque proximd pogonio interno et apice nigris, pogonio externo ex aureo virescenti-
Jusco ; rectricibus externis nigris, lineis albis crebris et undulatis minute Jasciatis, ad apicem
late niveis ; alis nigris, tectricibus et secundariis lineis cinereis minutis et irregularibus crebré
Jasciatis ; abdomine et corpore subtis coccineis; colore coccineo & viridi disjuncto lunula
alba ; rostro aurantiaco.

Foem. Capite, pectore et corpore superiore fuscis ; rectricibus caude duabus intermediis sordid?
castaneis ; gutture et plumis auricularibus nigris; abdomine et corpore subtius coccineis, hic
colore a fusco pectorali disjuncto lunuld albd.

Male.—Crown of the head, all the upper surface, and chest rich golden green; lores, ear-
coverts, and throat black; two middle tail-feathers golden greenish brown and tipped
with black, the next on each side have the inner web and tip black and the outer web
golden greenish brown; the outer feathers black, crossed by numerous fine irregular bars,
and largely tipped with pure white ; wings black, the coverts and secondaries finely
pencilled with irregular zigzag markings of light grey; primaries margined externally
with light grey ; abdomen and under surface scarlet, separated from the green of the chest
by a narrow crescent of white ; bill orange-yellow ; feet yellowish brown.

Female.—Wead, chest, and upper surface brown ; two middle tail-feathers dull chestnut-brown,
tipped with black; the two next on each side black on their inner webs and at the tip,
and dull chestnut-brown on their outer webs; the remaining feathers black on their inner
webs at the base, largely tipped with white, the intermediate portion being crossed by
alternate irregular bars of black and white; wings as in the male, the coverts and
secondaries freckled with yellowish brown instead of grey, and ear-coverts black ; abdomen
and under surface scarlet, which colour is separated from the brown of the chest by a
crescent of white ; bill and feet yellowish brown.

Total length 11 inches; bill {; wing 5;; tail 6}; tarsi 3.

Trogon personatus. Gould, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ix. p. 237 (1842).
_— heliothrix. Tsch. Wiegm. Arch. 1844, p. 300, et Fauna Peruana, pp. 41, 257.
Trogonurus personatus. Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 14.
Trogon propinquus. Cab. & Hem. Mus. Hein. ive Deeley
?—— assimilis. Gould, P. Z. 8. 1846, p. 67.

 

OrniTHOLOGIsTs are at the present moment divided in opinion as to whether the very common Trogons
which inhabit the hill-country of Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru are referable to one, two, three, or more
species, or whether these birds, having minor differences in markings and structure, should be considered
mere local varieties of a widely spread bird; at all events it has been considered, by some of my colleagues,
unnecessary to figure more than that first described. 8

The bird to which I originally gave the name of personatus is the one chosen for illustration in the

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