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SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

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Mas. Stmilis H. narinee, sed rectrice extimd pure alba et tectricibus alarum canis tenuissim? nigro

vermiculatis distinguendus.

 

Male.—General colour of the upper surface shining green, as well as the entire throat and fore
neck, the green of these parts always having a kind of olive-golden lustre, changing to
bright grass-green on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; the four centre tail-feathers deep
blue, with a narrow border of green; the two next bluish, shading off into brown; the
terminal half pure white, increasing in extent on the penultimate feathers, the outermost
being pure white excepting at the extreme base; all the wing-coverts (excepting the
least ones, which are green like the back) and secondaries greyish white, extremely finely
pencilled with black lines; primary coverts greyish black; primaries blackish, the
outermost edged with white; under surface of body rich crimson; under wing-coyerts
greyish black, like the inner lining of the wing; bill light green ; iris dark.

Total length 10; inches; wing 5;; tail 6).

Hapaloderma narina. Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1857, p. 38.
Trogon narina. Vartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 263.
Hapaloderma constantia. Sharpe & Ussher, Ibis, 1872, p. 181.

 

Tus beautiful species has long been known to ornithologists, but has been confounded with the Narina
Trogon of South Africa, from which it is certainly specifically distinct. _ is known at present only from
the forest-regions of the Gold Coast and Gaboon, having been procured an the latter country ay Du Chaillu.
Riis sent specimens from Aguapim ; and the typical examples were killed in the Denkera district of the Gold
Coast by Mr. St. Thomas D. Aubinn, a native hunter in the employ of Governor Ussher, after whose

daughter Constance the species is named. ;
The principal figure in the Plate is of the size of life, and has been drawn from one of the typical
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specimens kindly given to me by Mr. Bowdler Sharpe.