TROGON CITREOLUS, Gould.

Lemon-breasted Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER,

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Trog. corpore supra guttureque cerulescenti-viridibus ;

rectricibus duabus intermediis ad apicem,

reliquisque ad basin nigris, his apicem

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proximarum duarum utringue pogoniis imternis,

versus albis; ventre citrino in aurantiacum vergente ; alis brunnescenti-nigris, primariorum
pogonus externis albo fimbriatis; rostro cerulescenti-corneo :

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Foem. Capite, gutture dorsoque saturate cinereis

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Male.—Crown of the head, neck, back, and throat bluish ereen ;

tips of the two middle
tail-feathers, the internal web of the two

next on each side, and the base of the

emainder black, the rest of each feather white; abdomen lemon-yellow, passing into

orange ; wings brownish black, the outer webs of the prim
bill bluish horn-colour ; feet brown.

 

aries fringed with white :

Female-—Head, throat, and back dark grey; six middle tail-feathers brownish ; in other
respects the same as the male.

Total length 105 inches; bill 1; wing 5;; tail 6; tarsi

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Trogon citreolus. Gould, P. Z. 8S. 1835, p. 30.—Id. Monogr. Trog. ede sleeps 13.—Gray,
Hand-l. B. i. p. 82.—Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. p- 104.

— ——~ lucidus. Licht. in Mus. Berol. (fide Cabanis).

Agamus citreolus. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. De ore

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Tuts interesting and very rare Trogon is a native of Mexico, and may be distinguished from most other
known species by the delicate lemon-yellow of the under surface, by the greater extent of the white on the

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lateral tail-feathers, and by the uniform colouring of the central portion of the wing.
The foregoing paragraph relates all that was known of the species at the time of publication of the first
edition of the ‘Monograph ;’ but I have lately been indebted to my kind friend Mr. Salvin for the following

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account of the species :— ,
“ Of this well-marked species but little is known. The original specimens, formerly in the collection of
the Zoological Society, came from Mexico; but, beyond the indication of the particular places where the
species occurs in that country, next to nothing has been added to its history. Herr Deppe, who Ed largely
enriched the Berlin Museum with specimens of the natural objects of Seas, Ce this bird at Tequistlan
and Tehuantepec ; and at this latter place Col. A. J. Grayson also ais with it. The same a recat
also says, in a note given in Mr. Lawrence’s ‘Catalogue of the Birds of North-W estern bet a the
second volume of the ‘Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History,’ that the bird is well distributed
throughout the forests of the tierra caliente of that region, which includes the district on ae
both Col. Grayson and Mr. Xantus procured specimens. Mr. Cre aoe that the = ae nee a
Tehuantepec by Prof. Sumichrast to the Smithsonian Institution contained numerous specimens

om a > included i irds of Guatemala ; but this
Lf’ citreolus. At one time I thought that this Trogon might be included in the _ S ie
: I still think it far from improbable that the bird is

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suppositi i al confirmati hough
supposition has not received actual confirmation, thoug
° if actually 1 : erritory. One point
to be found in the forests of the province of Soconusco, if not actually in oe ee 7 P
restern S Jordilleras, which sprez
seems certain, that its range is restricted to the forests of the western slope of the Cordilleras, I
out to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. ae
“Tt remains to be stated that Messrs. Cabanis and Heine, in

in the ‘Revue Zoologique’ for 1842
synonym 7. capistratus of Lesson, described in the . g

their account of 7° cctreolus, place as a
, p. 1386. But from the

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