486 TROGONID. 
Supra saturate gramineo-viridis, nitens, capite summo plumbescenti-nigro, cupreo-viridi vix tincto: subtus 
gutture toto plumbeo-nigro nitenti viridi lavato, corpore toto reliquo rosaceo-coccineo ; alis plumbeo-nigris, 
remigibus ad basin in pogonio externo albidis; cauda chalybeo-nigra, rectricibus tribus utrinque externis 
late albo terminatis ; roestro plumbeo, pedibus corylino-carneis. Long. tota cirea 13°0, ale 7°9, caudee 8-0, 
rostri a rictu 1:5, tarsi 0-7. 
@ supra mari similis, capite summo plumbeo: subtus a,mento usque ad medium ventris plumbeo ad medium 
pectus brunneo tincta, ventre reliquo et tectricibus subcaudalibus coccineis, cauda sicut in mare. (Descr. 
maris et feminz ex Sierra de Valparaiso, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico (J. Taylor}, Floresi apud Gould 12), El Pinita in Chihuahua (Ll. Robinette *), 
Sierra de Valparaiso, Sierra Madre de Nayarit (W. B. Richardson *). 
In the first edition of his ‘ Monograph of the Trogonide,’ Gould tells us that the 
first intimation he had of the existence of this interesting species was the presentation 
by Mr. John Taylor to the Zoological Society of an immature specimen about the year 
1836, which he described and figured under the name of Trogon neoxenus. In the 
second edition of the same work he states that he subsequently received an adult male 
and female from the late Mr. Floresi, but was unable to say for certain from what part of 
Mexico they were brought, but thought they came from the neighbourhood of Real del 
Monte, a supposition since proved to be erroneous. Besides the specimens mentioned by 
Gould, two others were acquired for the Berlin Museum, as recorded by Cabanis ®, both 
from Mexico, but without more precise locality. It is only quite recently that the true 
domicile of Huptilotis neorenus was ascertained by our collector, Mr. W. B. Richardson, 
who obtained five specimens for us in the Sierra de Valparaiso and the Sierra Madre de 
Nayarit districts, towards the southern end of the great mountain-range which runs 
more or less parallel to the Pacific Ocean, through the States of Jalisco and Durango 
to the north-western frontier of the Republic. Since then this Trogon has been found 
much further north in the same range at El Pinita, in the State of Chihuahua, 
by Mr. F. Robinette, who was attached to the Lumholtz Archeological Expedition 
of 1890-914. It is thus extremely probable that Floresi’s examples were secured in 
the mountains near Bolafios, where he certainly resided for some time, and where some 
of his collections were made. ‘This place is close to where Mr. Richardson secured his 
birds. The species is doubtless restricted in its range to suitable forests on the great 
mountain-range already referred to, and forms one of its most characteristic birds, the 
great Woodpecker, Campophilus imperialis, being another. 
No particulars of the habits of this fine bird have reached us. 
TROGON. 
Trogon, Linneus, Syst. Nat. 1. p. 167 (1766) ; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 440. 
Pothinus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 1, p. 180 (1863). 
Aganus, Cab. & Heine, op. cit. p. 184. 
Troctes, Cab. & Heine, op. cit. p. 201. 
The genus Zrogon is essentially Neotropical, its species ranging from the northern 
