TROGON CALIGATUS, Goud.
Booted ‘Trogon.

Trog. Capite, collo, pectoreque intense violacers ; dorso, uropygio tectricibusque caude entense et

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metallice viridibus ; ala nigra, im medio cinerea, linersque delicatis nigris undatim notata ;
primariis eatts albo margimatis ; rectricebus caudee duabus intermediis, nec non proaximis
duabus ad barham externam, intense et metallicée viridibus, his ad harbam internam et ad

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apicem, tllarumque apicibus ngris ; ad has utrinquée proxima nigra extus albo notata ; re-
liquis alternatim albo nigroque fasciatis, ad apicem large albis ; lateribus cinereis ; abdomine
medio, crissoque aurantiacis ; plumis femorum tarsorumque nigris, fimbrid alba anticé ad basin

digitorum ; rostro ceerulescenti-corneo ; pedibus oliwacers.

Head, neck, and chest deep violet; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts deep metallic green ;
centre of the wing grey, marked transversely with very minute, irregular, and wavy lines
of black; remainder of the wing black, with the primaries edged externally with white ;
two centre tail-feathers and the outer web of the next on each side deep glossy green, the
inner webs of the two latter, and the tips of all six black; the next.on each side black,
with a row of white spots on the outer margin; the three lateral feathers on each side al-
ternately barred with black and white, and largely upped with white ; flanks grey ; centre
of the abdomen and under tail-coverts orange yellow ; feathers of the thighs and tarsi black
terminating in a fringe of white immediately above the toes; bill bluish horn colour ;
feet olive.

Total length, 8: inches; be//, 1; wing, 42; tail, 5 ; tarsi, +.

Trogon caligatus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part VI. 1838.

 

I recrer exceedingly that it is not in my power to lay before my readers any account relative to the history
of the elegant little Trogon figured in the accompanying Plate. My own specimen, which is a male, is the
only one I have seen; I procured it during a recent visit to Paris, from a collection of South American birds :
I was unable to obtain any information respecting its true habitat; but that portion of South America
which extends from the Spanish Main to the River Amazon will in all probability ultimately prove to be its
native locality.

It is one of the least of the genus, and is rendered remarkable by the circumstance of the tarsi being thickly
clothed down to the toes; the black bars on the outer tail-feathers are also broad, and well-defined; and,
contrary to what obtains in every other species, these bars are not confined to the three lateral feathers, but
the outer web of the fourth partakes of the same character, although to a less extent.