496 TROGONID£. 
Colombian State of Antioquia, and an adult male from the Balzar Mountains, north of 
the Gulf of Guayaquil, in Western Ecuador. Salmon, who met with Trogon chionurus 
in Antioquia, also found its nest, which he says is made in holes of palm-trees, in which 
two white eggs are laid °. 
The notes in the ‘Monograph of the Trogonide’ are as follows:—“ This beautiful 
Trogon may readily be distinguished from the well-known T. viridis by the much 
greater development of white in the tail-feathers. The first outer pair are all pure 
white, except a narrow basal patch concealed by the tail-coverts. Of the second pair 
considerably more than the apical half is white; in the third pair the white apices 
measure two inches in length. When the tail is closed the under surface appears 
perfectly white. Comparing the amount of white in the tail with that shown in 
T. viridis, the distinctness of the two birds is apparent. Notwithstanding this difference, 
the species remained several years undescribed both in Mr. Lawrence's cabinet and in 
our own; but in 1870 Mr. Sclater and I had occasion to examine the question, when 
it became manifest that this fine species required a name. About the same time 
Mr. Lawrence also bestowed the name 7’. eximius upon it.” 
The first specimens of this species were forwarded to Lawrence from the Panama 
Railway Line by the late James M‘Leannan, who afterwards supplied our collection 
with specimens of both sexes. The bird does not seem to extend its range into Central 
America much beyond the Line of Railway. Mr. Wyatt, when travelling in the valley 
of the Magdalena river in Colombia, shot a female of this species in the forest near 
Paturia, and heard the male calling further in. 
The bird found by the hunters of Bogota is the true 7. viridis, which occurs over a 
wide range of country lying to the east of the Andes, as far as Guiana and Eastern 
Brazil. It is therefore most probable that Colombian birds of this form are all 
obtained on the slope of the mountains drained by the upper waters of the Rio Meta, 
a district much frequented by the Bogota bird-hunters. 
7. Trogon bairdi. 
Trogon bairdi, Lawr. Aun. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p.119*; Salv. Ibis, 1869, p. 3167; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 202? ; 
v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 313*; Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. 2, t. 23°; Zeledon, An. Mus. 
Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 120°; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 4617. 
Trogon clathratus, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix, p. 119 (nec Salv.)°. 
T. chionuri similis, abdomine et tectricibus subcaudalibus coccineis nec aurantiis facile distinguendus, femina 
caude rectricibus tribus utrinque lateralibus ad apices fasciatis nec late albo terminatis. (Descr. maris 
et femine ex Bugaba, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica, San Mateo (Cooper 18, v. Frantzius*), Pozo Azul de Pirris, Las Trojas 
(Zeledon®); Panama, Bugaba *, Bibalaz (Arcé), Veraguas (Merritt). 
This fine species is closely allied to T. chionurus, but may readily be distinguished 
by its scarlet breast. It range, too, is distinct, being confined to Costa Rica and the 
