TROGON COLLARIS,

Collared Trogon.

Vieill.

SPECIFIC CHaracteEr.

Mas.

lrog. supra. aureo-viridis 3 rectrictbus tntermedits sex
gonis enternis (nisz intermediarum duarum) nigris, cee
< 3 ee . . 2 .

bus negris pogonis externis albis, secundartis ale

alboque lineatis 3; auribus gulaque nigris ;

aureo-viridibus ngro apiculatis, po-
teris mgro alboque fasciatis ; remigi-
que mediee plumis transverse flexuosim nigro

dt gulture aureo-viridi ; pectore torque lunata alba
cencto ; ventre caudceque tectricibus enferioribus coccineis

Trides saturate brunnee ; rostrum flavo-aurantiacum ; pedes saturaté cinerei.
Fem. brunnea est ubi mas aureo-viridis 3 rectricthus. tribus extimis utringue negro lineolatis
punctatisque alboque apiculatis.

Rostrum brunnescenti-aurantiacum.

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 being black, and the whole six tipped with
black; the three outer feathers on each side strongly barred with black and white ; pri-
maries black with their outer edges white; secondaries and middle of the wing transversely
rayed with zigzag markings of white and black ; 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; inides dark brown; feet dark grey.

Female. Head, chest, and upper surface brown ; two middle tail-feathers rich chestnut brown,
the two next on each side chestnut brown on their outer webs and 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 ; bell, $; wing, 44; tael, 5s; tarsz, *.

Le Couroucou Rosalba. Le Vaill. Hist. Nat. de Couroucous, pl. 6.
Trogon collaris. Vieill. Y Encyclopédie Méthodique, vol. 3. p. 1362.

a «Spx, Av. Sp. Nov. vol. 1. p. 50.

h the brilliant scarlet of the breast, the strong and decided

Tue rich golden green of its plumage, together wit oe : :
: 5 , are the principal features by which this elegant

1 i i » perfect pectoral bé white
markings of the tail, and the perfect pectoral band of 4
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species may be distinguished from its congeners; for although the Trogon elegans |
s ste 5 : :
iets hie - of black that vary its much more elongated tail are considerably finer
style of markings, the transverse bars of black that vary its g
and more numerous.

The Zrogon collaris is found in Brazil
have never seen specimens. Although different met .
forms me that he once observed this species in compan) wit

yility they were effe

Rio Negro; and he considers that in all probat a
chs of several of this species wh

and Cayenne, from any localities to the north of which COMINGS I
members of these birds rarely associate, yet M. Natterer in-
the Trogon variegatus, On the banks of the
cting a partial migration, from one part

ich he examined contained the re-
of the country to another: the stoma

mains of fruits and caterpillars.

The plumage of the sexes differs considerably ; ,
the tail of the latter 1s als
which characterize that of the male.

those parts which in the male are rich golden green, being

f in the femal o extremely different, being entirely destitute of the
of a deep brown in the female:

strong bars of black and white