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TROGON ROSEIGASTER,

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SPrcr FIC CHARACTER.

Mas.—Capite summo et nuchd olwaceo-viridibu

Pin @ ;
8; gula pectoreque
alarum nigris, plumis singulis

cimereis ; humeri
anguste albo fasciatis.

8 tectricibusque

4DEREdERAD

Male ?—Lores greenish black ; crown of the head,

nape and upper surf,
passing into purer green on the lower

ace deep oil-green,
part of the back and upper tail-coverts ;
S crossed by numerous tr
arred throughout the entire
white ; chin, throat, breast and uy

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43

wings
slaty black, the coverts and secondarie

ansverse well-defined lines

length of their outer webs with
pper part of the abdomen dar]
abdomen and under tail-coverts deep blood-red ;

their outer webs and on the tips of bot]

© apache shad then O07 ba pplhtag ling) wibistel gnc iAteome

i

of greyish white : primaries |

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< grey ; lower part of the
two centre tail-feathers

1 webs ; their inner webs,

an

bluish green on
and a small portion of the

outer web near the tip, oil-green ; the bluish green ; the three outer

two next on each side
ones on each side bluish ereen, largely tipped with white: a considerable portion of the outer

near the tip by an oval spot of bluisl
Total length, 11+ inches ; di//. z- wing, 5: tail, 6+.

 

web is also white. interrupted 1 green ; bill yellow.

 

Female ?

ereen and destitute of the wl

Similar in the eeneral arrangement of tl]

Vw Bay 4-1

1e colouring, but the wing-coverts bronzy

ite transverse markings, and the primaries margined instead
of being barred with white.

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Trogon roseiguster, Vieill. Kney. Méth. Orn., part i. p. 1858.—Gould, Mon. of Trogons,

pl. 20.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Ay., p. 149, Trogon, sp. 10.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of
Birds, vol. i. p- 69, Trogon, s}

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4

». 1O.—Selater in Proce. of Zool. Soc., part xxv. p- 235.
= domicellus, Cuv.

——— rhodogaster, Temm.

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— ( Temnurus ry

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roseiyaster, Gould, Mon. of Trogons, List of Plates, sp. 20.

Le Couroucou a calecon rouge, ou Le Couroucou Damoiseau, LeVaill. Hist. Nat. des Courouc.,

pe 13.

 

Lae ¢ Sis ae s with specimens of this very beautiful species
We are much indebted to M. Sallé for having amply supplied us with spe me : |
| ly | to ornithologists from the very bad drawing in LeVaillant’s
Troe hic -eviously was only known gst : oa
of Trogon, which previoush “The aativelcoumamne St Domingo, where several trivial names are
“Histoire Naturelle des Couroucous. S native ae : te
rele des | it is called Calecon rouge, in others Dame, or Demoiselle Anglaise ;
. : - ‘ . . -ovinces 1t 1S Cé : g fay : }
applied to it; in some of the provil -ié Tn Mr. Sclatene oe am
‘ ‘y: A yetae ‘ x n ivVir. SCclater S paper
and also Pie de Montagnes, from its continually residing among the mountams = . st ] ae
ae “Salle | Mexico, published in the twenty-fifth part of the “ Proceedings o
. i ; ‘, / . x 7 ae »x1C0O ] . 5 4 E fe %
birds observed by M. Sallé in Southern Mexico, he Hind aces eee
; ‘He it 1s state his authority, that the birc stricts
r ; ee yy 1s by M. Sallé, it is stated, on his } a
the Zoological Society,” with notes by M. cee ‘oes in small bands uttering a plaintive
athe t e Pihe | es t mountains of the interior of the island, and goes in small be j g 7 I to
meee P % the lolties : hem; they perch on the loftiest
i ar e@ +h to fire upon them ; vy]
imitating which you can entice them near enoug ; eee
cry, by imitating which you can en vy male ‘thei wecte qlchenn Taam
2 - 7 ; : Bee iy tire: they mak
: : iderable size, which they swallow en 3 tne}
trees, and eat berries of considerable size, ; g ‘oe are white andiconnteieaenee
tte side: their eggs are J
r se ‘ough to the opposite side ; ss
of Woodpeckers, piercing them throug
are called Piragua.”

ae |; inform us what, if any, are the sexual differences in the
It i h to | retted that M. Salle does not infor
iS much to be regrette eae

. ‘ing-coverts are males or
es ee ae ‘5s on the wing-coverts ¢
; a - whether the specimens with fine transverse line g
colouring of this bird, or whethei spe

Ss: if s > prominent
ee a he males ; and if so, the }
however, that this character is peculiar to t ales 5
females ; I have little doubt, however, thé co
i i -epresents a female.
figure in the accompanying Plate represents a femé aa eee
; : ue at this b S
Vieillot was certainly mistaken when he stated that

: . ota s not
3 Ls 120 3 if it does ’
whether it occurs in any other country than St. Doge

in Mexico; I question very much

it affords another instance of the
| i ante - peculiar species.

West Indian Islands being tenanted by peculiar s]

The figures are of the natural size.