PHAROMACRUS PAVONINUS

Red-billed Train-bearey.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Mas. Rostro ad basin maniaceo, ad apicem flavo ; caudd negra.

Male.—Head and breast glossy green in some specimens, rich golden green in others ; wings
and the whole of the upper surface rich glossy green ; upper tail-coverts green, the two
centre ones reaching to the end of the tail, but rar ely exceeding it ; wings and tail black ;
breast and under tail-coverts rich scarlet ; feathers of the thighs and tarsi black with green

reflections ; irides dark red inclining to carmine; feet ochre-yellow ; bill carmine at the
base and yellow at the tip.

Total length 134 inches, 677 1:

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Female.—Head, throat, and chest dark greyish brown, tinged with green; upper part of the
abdomen dark greyish brown, the lower part and the under tail-coverts deep scarlet ; feathers
of the thighs and tarsi black with green reflections ; shoulders and the whole of the upper
surface including the upper tail-coverts, which nearly reach to the end of the tail, rich green;
wings brownish black with the outer edges of the feathers buff ; tail-feathers black, the two
outer on each side obscurely rayed with greyish white ; upper mandible dark brown, under

mandible dusky carmine becoming brown at the point ; irides brown.

Trogon pavoninus, Spix, Av. Bras., tom. i. p: 47, tab. xxxv.—Steph. Cont. of Shaw’s Gen. Zool.,
vol. xiv. part 1, p. 219.—Gould, Proe. of Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 107, 1835, p. 29, & 1836,
p- 12.—Id. Mon. of Trog., pl. 23.

Calurus pavoninus, Swains. Class. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 338.— Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. i. jo. Zl.
Calurus, sp. 2.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., tom. i. p. 293, Calurus, sp. 2.—Burm. Syst.
Uebers. Th. Bras., tom. ii. p. 273, & ibid. note sp. 3.

Tanypeplus pavoninus, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 205.

Pharomacrus pavoninus, Sclat. and Salv. Proc. of Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 583.

 

Ir ornithologists will examine and compare my figures of the various species of this truly beautiful section
of the Zrogonide, they will perceive at a glance that the characters of each are so cle arly defined that but
little attention will be required to distinguish one from another. The bird here represented is the only
species of the form that has yet been discovered with a red bill; if, then, this peculiarity be kept in view, and
the uniform brownish-black colouri ing of the tail be remembered, the bird will be readily recognized. Its native
country is the interior of Brazil, where it inhabits most, if not all, the great primeval forests bordering the
rivers of that extensive region, but more particularly those which flow into the mighty Amazon. Spix was
the first who made_ us acquainted with this fine bird by his figure of it on the thirty-fifth Plate of the first
volume of his work on the Birds of Brazil. The late John Natterer brought specimens with him when he
returned from his sojourn of eighteen years in the same country, kindly leaving with me a male and a female
when passing through London ex route to Vienna. He at the same time informed me that he had had

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