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Like other members of the family, Trogon mexicanus does not fly much, but rests 
almost motionless on the lower branches of the higher trees in an upright position. 
Its flight is quick but not sustained, as it moves from one perch to another. 
The bare eyelid surrounding the eye in both sexes is red, of a tint corresponding 
with that of the breast in each case, that of the male being the brighter of the two. 
2. Trogon elegans. 
Trogon elegans, Gould, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 26'; Mon. Trog. t. 37; ed. 2, t.9°; Sel. P. Z.S. 1858, 
p. 357°; Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p.117°; Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 194°; 1872, p. 8227; Cab. & Heine, 
Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 1, p. 170°; Cherrie, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 586°; Grant, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 449°, 
Supra lete nitide viridis, fronte, capitis lateribus et gula nigris: subtus gutture et pectore dorso concoloribus, 
fascia pectorali nivea, corpore toto reliquo et tectricibus subcaudalibus coccineis ; alis nigris, remigibus extus 
albo limbatis, secundariis, tectricibus mediis et minoribus nigris minutissime griseo-albido vermiculatis ; 
cauda supra cupreo-viridi, rectricibus sex mediis nigro terminatis, rectricibus tribus utrinque externis 
nigris late albo terminatis et regulariter albo stricte transversim fasciatis ; rostro flavo, oculorum ambitu 
coccineo, pedibus corylinis. Long. tota circa 11-0, ale 5:0, caude 6-7, rostri a rictu 0°85, tarsi 0°65. 
2 supra fusco-brunnea, pileo saturatiore; loris, capitis lateribus et gula nigricantibus, macula malari, altera 
auriculari et oculorum ambitu albis: subtus gutture dorso concolori, fascia pectorale albida, hypochondriis 
imis et tectricibus subalaribus rosaceo-coccineis, abdomine medio albo; alis nigris, remigibus albo limbatis, 
secundariis et tectricibus mediis et minoribus pallide fuscis vix nigro irroratis; cauda supra castanea 
nigro terminata, rectricibus tribus utrinque externis nigris albo late transfasciatis et albo terminatis. 
(Descr. maris et feminze ex La Libertad, Salvador. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. GuatemaLa (fide Gould}, mus. Heineanum8); Satvapor, La Libertad, Volcan de 
San Miguel (W. B. Richardson) ; Honpuras, Plain of Comayagua (Taylor **®); Nica- 
RAGUA, Chinandega, Volcan de Chinandega, Leon (W. B. Richardson), Virgin Bay, 
Lake of Nicaragua (Bridges), Chontales (Belt*); Costa Rica, San Lucas IL, 
Gulf of Nicoya (Alfaro & Cherrie°). 
The specimens from which Gould took his original description of this species in 
1834 were stated to have been brought from Guatemala!; and a male in the Heine 
collection is supposed to have come from the same country, a young female in the 
same collection being attributed to Mexico 8. We have no further evidence that this 
Trogon occurs in either country, and, judging from the number of skins we have lately 
received from Salvador and Nicaragua, we are inclined to doubt its occurrence in 
Guatemala, and to disbelieve in its existence in any part of Mexico. If it is found in 
the former country it is probably restricted to the southern portion of the lowlands 
bordering the Pacific Ocean, which form an extension of the lowlands of Salvador, 
where we have abundant evidence of its occurrence. From this point along the coast 
of the Pacific through Nicaragua, 7. elegans seems to be abundant, as Mr. Richardson 
has sent us many specimens from various places visited by him in this region. It also 
occurs as far in the interior of Honduras as Comayagua, and in the woods on the shore 
of the great lake of Nicaragua. The most southern point recorded for the occurrence 
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