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TROGON AURANTIUS, sp:

Orang'e-breasted Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Mas. Vertice pectoreque violaceo-ceruleis nitore viridi, gutture nigrescente ; dorso et uropygro

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entense veridibus, hic cerulescente; abdomine medio crissoque splendidé aurantiacis; rectricibus

caude duabus intermediis intense viridibus, utrisque duabus proximis nigrescenti-fuscis extis
viridi lavatis ; tribus externis versus apicem albis.
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Foem. Capite, corpore supra, gutture, pectore lateribusque nigrescenti-cinereis ; caudd nigrescenti-
cmered, rectricibus intermediis ad apicem mgerrims, tribus externis albo extis marginatis

apicibusque albis.

Male.—Crown of the head and chest violet-blue, with green reflections in some specimens ;
throat black ; back and rump rich dark green inclining to blue on the latter ; wings black,
with the centre very finely striated with greyish white, and the primaries margined on the
outer edges with white ; flanks grey ; centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts rich
orange yellow ; two centre tail-feathers rich green ; the two next on each side blackish
brown, tinged with green on their outer webs, and all six tipped with black; the three
lateral feathers on each side blackish brown at the base, and pure white for the remainder
of their length ; bill bluish horn-colour; feet purplish lead-colour.

Total length 10; inches, bill 1, wing 5, tail 6.

Female.—Head, all the upper surface, throat, chest, flanks, and tail grey, the middle feathers of
the latter tipped with jet-black, and the three lateral ones on each side margined on their
external webs and tipped with white ; centre of the wing striated with white ; centre of
the abdomen and under tail-coverts orange yellow ; bill dark horn-colour, becoming lighter

at the point ; feet purplish lead-colour.

Trogon aurantius, Spix, Av. Bras., tom. 1. p. 47, tab. xxxvi.—Steph. Cont. of Shaw’s Gen. Zool.,
vol. xiv. part 1, p. 219.—Temm. PI. Col., gen. Courouce., sp. 13.—Gould, Mon. of Trog.,
pl. 14.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 69, Trogon, sp. 7.—Id. List of Spec. of
Birds in Coll. Brit. Mus., part ii. sect. 1., Fissirostres, p. 42.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av.,
tom.i.p. 149, Trogon, sp. 6.—Burm. Syst. Uebers. Th. Bras., tom. u. p. 279.—v. Pelz. Sitz.
Wien. Akad. Wissensch., tom. xx. p. 505.—Id. Orn. Bras., p. 20.—Sclater, Cat. of Coll. of

Amer. Birds, p. 276.
—— chrysogaster, Swains. Two Cent. and a Quart., p. 330.—Id. Class. of Birds, vol. 11. p. 337.

Aganus aurantius, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 192.

 

My late friend John Natterer informed me, when in London some thirty years ago, that this beautiful species,

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the Trogon aurantius of Spix, was not uncommon 11 the woods near Rio de Janeiro; we learn from Aug

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von Pelzeln’s “ Ornithologie Brasiliens, Resultate von Johann Natterer’s Reisen in den Jahrer / 0;

 

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