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(and as unnatural
to separate the Kingfishers from

would be as reasonable

¢ them a new three-toed family, as

As an instance how totally unable the Trogons

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families and form 0
reasons assigned. f
like climbmg, we
one would think they would get by

the Trogons for the
may mention that the Trogons

are to use their feet for any thing

rincipally on fruit, which
But no;

d their attention on some particular tempting

of South America feed p
alking after if they could.

and having fixe

they take their station on a bare branch

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about the middle of the tree,
fruit they dart at it, seize it dexterously on the wing, and return to their original seat.
Often while waiting ender a icuttree 10° Chatterers or Pigeons, have we received the
a Trogon by the ‘whir-r-r’ of its wings as it darted shee

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first intimation of the presence of

at this habit seems confined to the Trogons of America. In

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the East I have never yet observed it, and 1

nothing has been found but insects. The African ‘Trogons also appear to be wholly

imsectivorous.

he American Trogons, as they have

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ne under his observation during his travels :—‘‘In habits, Trogons are inactive whilst

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able time almost motionless on the branch on which

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spasmodic ; . ee or
pe ic; but they appear to seize most of their food, whether it be msect or fruit,
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wing. Of the former, the larvee are mostly preferred, and I have not

unfrequently found large caterpillars in the stomachs of those I shot

“<T'rogons are :
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gS ly found singly or in pairs; but I have, when me pursuit of Quezals,

 

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occasion eral indivi
s seen several individuals at one time. Then, perhaps excited by the calls
of the hunter, tl ] 3g 7
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, they evince unusual activity, and fly from tree to tree and branch to
branch rine | | a
uttermg a chattermg note. Trogons always
g always remain under the shade of the

forest-tr
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with ae [ i
on boughs at some distance from the ground,

but not in the tops of the trees.”

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