TROGON SURUCUA.

Surucua Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Mas. Vertice, cervice iridescenti-ceruleis » roptrjns ..
WE : pectoreque iridescenti-cei ules ; rectricibus intermediis duabus cerulescenti-

viridibus, duabus proximis utringue pogoniis externis cerulescenti-viridibus internis nigris,
‘um omnium apicibus negris, reliquis dimidio basali nigro anica); > remigib gr
harum on gro apiat albo ; remigibus nigrescenti-
brunneis, albo ad pogonia externa fimbriatis.
Foem. Puliginoso-cinerea ; alis bi unnescenti-nigris, renugibus albo fimbriatis.

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Male.—Crown of the head, back of the neck, and chest changeable green and violet in some

specimens, and almost pure blue in others ; throat and face black ; back and upper tail-

coverts deep changeable golden green, inclining to blue on the rump; the two middle tail-
feathers bluish green, the two next on each side with their outer webs only bluish green,
the inner black, the whole six tipped with black ; the three outer feathers on each side
have their basal half black, the remainder white ; primaries blackish brown, bordered with
white on their exterior edges; secondaries and upper part of the wing freckled with markings
of black and white; centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts crimson; bill olive; irides
reddish brown ; eyelash orange; feet dark brown.

Total length 10; inches, é7/7 1, wing 5, tail 55.

Female.—-Head, neck, chest, back, and rump sooty grey ; lower part of the belly and under tail-
coverts light crimson ; wings brownish black ; primaries edged with white ; the secondaries
and upper part of the wings transversely rayed with greyish white ; six centre tail-feathers
brownish grey tipped with black, three outer feathers on each side brownish grey margined on

their exterior edges and partly so on their inner ones with white ; bill olive.

Surucud, Azar. Apunt. Hist. Nat. Paxar. Parag., tom. u. p. 373. no. 270.

Trogon surucura, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. d Hist. Nat., tom. vii. p. 322.—Gould, Mon. of Trog.,
pl. 15.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. App. p. 4, app. to p. 69.—Bonap. Consp.
Gen. Ay., tom. i. p. 148, Harpactes, sp. 2.—v. Pelz. Orn. Bras., p. 19.

Trogon leucurus, Swains. Two Cent. and a Quart., p. 331.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol.i.
p. 70, Trogon, sp. 15.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., tom. 1. p. 149, Trogon, sp. 19.

curucura, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 69, Trogon, sp. 2.
Curucujus surucua, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 14. gen. 20s or
Trogon surucua, Hartl. Ind. Azar., p.17.—Burm. Syst. Uebers. Th. Bras., tom. u. p. 274.

Hapalophorus surucua, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 199.

 

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work on the natural productions of Paragu
country, he proceeds to state that ‘it is not common, and

ay :—After informing us that Swrucua is its native name in that
does not quit the largest woods, but generally

 

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