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circulation by Bonaparte that the Quezal builds a nest in the shape of a bag or 
barrel open at both ends, by which means injury to its long tail-feathers is avoided, is 
finally discredited. 
The range of the Quezal extends beyond the limits of Vera Paz, for it occurs where 
ancient upland forest remains in all the higher parts of -Guatemala, such as the 
mountains beyond the Rio Negro above Chiacaman and Cunen, in the forests of 
Quezaltenango, and in the great volcanoes of Agua and Fuego, in the belt of mixed 
forest which encircles those mountains between 7000 and 10,000 feet above the sea. 
In these mountains we obtained several specimens when staying at the hospitable 
hacienda of Duefias. Southward of Guatemala the late Capt. G. C. Taylor gave good 
evidence of Quezals being found in the higher mountains south and east of Comayagua 
in Honduras 1, and quite recently Mr. W. B. Richardson has sent us several examples 
from the neighbourhood of San Rafael del Norte in Nicaragua. Southward of this 
point there is a distinct gap in the range of the Quezal, the mountain-chain sinking 
below the height suitable for its economy; but when the hills and volcanos rise again | 
in Costa Rica and Chiriqui, the Quezal reappears in a slightly smaller form, which 
was named P. costaricensis by Cabanis 23, or P. mocinno var. costaricensis > or P. m. 
costaricensis*", according to the taste of some authors. The difference is slight and 
only of dimensions, and in our opinion the southern bird is not worthy of being 
separated by name. Of the Costa Rica bird M. Boucard *6 has given some interesting 
details in the third volume of Rowley’s ‘ Ornithological Miscellany.’ 
EUPTILOTIS. 
Euptilotis, Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. 2, t. 6 (1858); Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p- 436. 
Lepiuas, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 1, p. 206 (1863). 
Euptilotis is a peculiar monotypic genus of restricted range. It differs from true 
Trogon in several points of more or less significance. The central rectrices instead of 
differing in the sexes are coloured alike in both male and female. The ear-coverts are 
produced and end in long hair-like filaments, a character not found in any other 
member of the family. The bill is slate-colour, rather flatter and less stout than in 
Trogon, the oval nostrils are more exposed, and the maxilla has a single subterminal 
notch ; and in this respect Luptilotis resembles Pharomacrus rather than Trogon, which 
has several notches along the end of the tomia. 
The genus was founded by Gould in 1858, and in 1863 Cabanis and Heine, apparently 
overlooking Gould’s title, renamed it Leptuas. 
1. Euptilotis neoxenus. 
Trogon neoxenus, Gould, Mon. Trog. t. 25 (1838) ’. 
Euptilotis neoxenus, Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. 2, t.6 (1858)”; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. 
p. 437°; Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. v. p. 34°. 
Leptuas neoxenus, Cab, & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 1, p. 206°. 
