492 TROGONID. 
Supra lete nitide aureo-viridis, loris, capitis lateribus et mento nigris: subtus gutture et pectore dorso conco- 
loribus, hoc late albo marginato; corpore toto reliquo et tectricibus subcaudalibus coccineis ; alis nigris, 
remigibus albo limbatis, tectricibus alarum minute albo vermiculatis ; cauda nigra, rectricibus utrinque 
tribus parte exposita anguste sed distincte albo transfasciatis, duabus mediis extrorsum fere dorso conco- 
loribus nigro terminatis, reliquis in pogonio externo quoque dorso concoloribus ; oculorum ambitu ave 
vivo coccineo ; rostro flavo, pedibus corylinis. Long. tota 10-5, ala 5-0, caude rectr. med. 5:6, rectr. lat. 
3°5, tarsus 0°55. 
Q supra omnino brunnea, gutture et pectore concoloribus, mento et capitis lateribus nigricantibus, torque 
pectorali alba, abdomine rosaceo ; alis fusco-nigricantibus extrorsum albido lim batis, tectricibus dorso conco- 
loribus minutissime nigro irroratis ; cauda fusco-nigricante, rectricibus duabus mediis extrorsum castaneis 
nigro terminatis, rectricibus tribus externis in pogonio externo et ad apicem albidis nigro variegatis, apici- 
bus albis, fascia subterminali nigra. (Deser. maris et femine ex Duefias, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
¢ juv. cauda plus minusve femine caudi similis. 
Var. abdomine plus minusve aurantio nec coccineo unde Trogon aurantiiventris, Gould. 
Hab. Mxxtco (White ®), Jalapa (de Oca *), Cofre de Perote, Coatepec, Vega del Casadero 
(M. Trujillo), Misantla (F. D. G.), Cordova (Sallé*?), Uvero (Sumichrast '), 
Atoyac (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Playa Vicente (Boucard®), Guichicovi (Sumichrast "), 
Chimalapa (Sumichrast © 6, W. B. Richardson), Izamal, Tizimin in Yucatan 
(G. F. Gaumer'); British Honpuras, Western District (f. Blancaneaus) ; 
GUATEMALA, Pie de la Cuesta, Santa Maria near Quezaltenango, Retalhuleu, Toliman 
(W. B. Richardson), Pacific coast region 7, Medio Monte, Alotenango, Duenas, 
Volcan de Fuego (0. S. & F. D. G.), Escuintla (Gould 1), Chiriquyu near Coban, 
Yaxcamnal. Choctum 74, ‘Teleman (0. S. & F. D. G.); Nicaragua, Matagalpa, San 
Rafael de Norte (W. B. Richardson) ; Costa Rica ®?§ (Durando), Turrialba® 1, 
Angostura (Carmiol), 8. José%, Dota Mts. (v. Frantzius), Candelaria Mts. 
(v. Frantzius 12, Boucard *), Barranca (Carmiol *", Zeledon *°), Navarro (Boucard \*), 
Naranjo de Cartago (Zeledon'’); Panama, David, Boquete (Bridges *° *1), Volcan 
de Chiriqui 18, Calovevora 2°, Castillo *°, Sta Fé *°, Cordillera de Tolé * (Arcé). | 
‘This Trogon was described by Gould in 1845, from a specimen said to have been 
sent from Escuintla in “South America ”!, the well-known town of that name in the 
lowlands of Guatemala bordering the Pacific Ocean no doubt being the place referred 
to. It was again described in the same year by Vicomte Du Bus as Trogon xalapensis, 
and figured in his ‘ Esquisses Ornithologiques’}®. ‘The range of the species is now 
known to be very extensive, reaching in the north to about the middle of the Mexican 
State of Vera Cruz, where it is found in some abundance from the neighbourhood of 
Jalapa southwards. It occurs on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec ’°, but probably only on 
the eastern side, for we have no record of its being traced to any part of Western 
Mexico. It is found in Northern Yucatan, in British Honduras, and is a common 
bird throughout the heavily forested district of Central Guatemala up to Coban and 
the valley of the Polochic river. In Western Guatemala it is also abundant throughout 
the region bordering the Pacific Ocean, and in the mountains inland up to an elevation 
of about 5000 feet above the level of the sea, Absent, apparently, from Honduras 
