TROGON CLATHRA TUS,

Salvin.

The Lattice-tailed ‘Trogon.

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SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Trog. splendide viridis, vix aureo nitens ; puleo cyanescente ; facie lateral; gulaque nigris; jugulo
et pectore superiore dorso concoloribus ; corpore reliquo subtis let? coccines

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tectricibus alarum minoribus viridibus, re eliquis autem et

externo cinereis minute nigro transvermiculatis ;

alis nigris,
remiguin secundariorum pogonio

caudd nigro terminatd, rectricibus duabus
viridibus, proximis duabus exttis viridibus

quatuor utrinque nigris angusté albido transversim lineati
Foem. Saturaté cinerea, alis et caudd mgricantioribus ;
transfasciatis ; abdomine rufescente tincto,

mediis omnino ie
s ints nigricantibus, reliquis
8.

rectricibus tribus externis albo anguste
ventre imo et crisso coccineis

fusco-nigro, basi et mandibuld inferiore flavis (S

: Trostro superiore
Salvin).

Male.—Shining green above, slightly washed with blue, but also inchning to golden green ;

the head decidedly darker and much more blue; least w ing-coverts coloured like the
back, the remainder grey very finely waved with tiny zig-z

zag lines of black ; the bastard
wing and primary coverts blae

ek; quills black, the primaries with an indistinct narrow

edging of whity brown to the outer web; the secondaries externally vermiculated with

grey like the wing-coverts; the three centre tail-feathers on each side shining green,
tipped with black; the two centre rectrices entirely green, but the next two more or less
inclining to black on the inner web; the four outermost on each side black, narrowly
lined across with whitish, these cross lines disappearing towards the centre of the tail;
lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts, as well as the chin and throat, black; fore neck and
chest shining green like the back ; rest of under-surface crimson ; inner lining of quills
ashy black, with greyish cross vermiculations on the under wing-coyerts.

Total length about 11; inches; wing 6}; tail 63; culmen %.

The female, according to Mr. Salvin (/. c.) is “dark grey; the wings and tail being blacker ;
the three outer tail-feathers narrowly barred across with white; the abdomen tinged
with rufous, the lower part of the belly and vent crimson; bill dusky black, the base
and the lower mandible yellow.”

Trogon clathratus. Salvin, P. Z.S. 1866, p. 75.—Id. P. Z.S. 1867, p. 151.—Id. Ibis,
1869, p. 316.—Id. P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 202.—Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 119.—Sel.
& Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr.

—— calthratus. Gray, Hand-l. B. 1. p. 81.

 

Tuis species was first described by Mr. Osbert Salvin in 1866; and his eeuenis as to its LIne are as
follows :—‘‘ At first sight this very distinct species has the appearance ot T. massena ot Gould ; but, mn
addition to a very considerable inferiority of size, the barred tail (a characteristic of a very different section
of the Trogonide, viz. of that which includes 7. puella, Gould) at once shows its complete aa

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It partakes, in fact, to some extent of the characters of both the above- mentioned groups. There <
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distinct notches on the oe of both upper and lower mandibles ; but these are neithe |

large as in 7” massena.’
It is an inhabitant of Veragua, the exact localities where it h
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Santiago de Veragua, Calovevora, and the Cordillera de T

extend to Costa Rica, by Mr. Lawrence.

as been obtained by Arce being Santa Fe,

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