TROGON MELANURUS,

Swainson.

Black-tailed Troe

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SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

‘0g. vertice, pectore summo ne
Trog fi summo et corpore supra intense aureo- viridibus ; loris, regione auriculari,
guldque nigris, hée aureo-viridi nitente ; pectore albo transversim fasciato ;

pulcherrimé coccineo ; alis mgris, medialiter lineis delicatis albis striatis
albo marginatis ; caudd nigrd, rectricibus sex intermediis
externis extus lineis obscuris albis striatis ;
Foem. Capite,

corpore subtis
primariisque extits
purpureo et viridi tinctis ; duabus
rostro flavo ; pedibus stramineis.

corpore supra, gutture ee intense cinere

is; alis nigris, obscure striis
albis medialiter notatis ;

cauda niyy a, rectricibus duabus externis eats Crissoque COCCINELS.

Male.—Crown of the head, chest, and all the upper surface dark golden green ; space between

the bill and the eye, ear-coverts, and throat black, gradually passing into the golden green ;
breast crossed by a band of white, beyond which all the under surface is rich fiery
scarlet ; wing black, the centre striated with fine wavy lines of white, and the primaries
margined externally with the same colour ; tail |] black, the six centre feathers tinged with
purple and green, and the outer web of the lateral feather on each side faintly
with white, as in the centre of the w ing ; bill yellow ; feet straw- yellow.
Female.—Head, all the upper surface, throat, and breast Fi k grey ; wings and tail black, with

a faint indication of the white striae on the centre of the wing and the outer webs of the
lateral tail-feathers ; vent and under tail-coverts scarlet.
Total length 12 inches; bill 1}; wing 6{; tail 6:; tarsi:

striated

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Couroucou a ventre rouge de Cayenne. Buff. Pl. Enl. 452.

Trogon curucui, var. Gm. 8. N. i. p. 403.

Le Couroucou d Amérique male a ventre rose. Levaill. Hist. Nat. Couroue. pl. 1

Le Couroucou & ventre rose dans son premier dge. Leyaill. t. c. pl. 2

Trogon curucui (nec Linn.). Bonn. et Vieill. Enc. Méth. iii. p. 1362.—Gray, Gen. B. i.
p: 69.—Burm. Syst. Uebers. i. p. 275.—Gray, Hand-l. B. 1. p. 81.

Trogon strigilatus. Spix, Av. Bras. 1. p. 49.

— melanurus. Swains. An. in Menag. p. 329.—Gould, Monogr. Trogon. text to pl. 18.
—Gray, List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 41.—Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Brit. Guian. Ii.
p: 718.—Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 261, et 1860, p. 284.—Id. Cat. Am. B. p. 277.—Scl.
& Saly. P.Z. S. 1866, p. 193.—Iid. op. cit. 1867, pp. 583, 978.—lid. op. cit. 1869,
p- 598.—Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 19, 402.—Scl. & Salv. P.Z.S. 1873, p. 292.—lid.
Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 104.

Trogon nigricaudatus. Gould, Monogr. Trogon. pl. 18.

Curucujus melanurus. Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 14.

Troctes melanurus. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 202.

ee csurus. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 203°

 

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