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tectricibus subcaudalibus citrino-aurantiis ; caude rectricibus tribus utrinque albo late terminatis. (Descr. 
maris et femine ex Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
3d guv. caude rectricibus tribus lateralibus albo terminatis et in pogonio externo albo maculatis. 
Hab. Mexico 26, Tamaulipas (Gould !), Tampico (W. B. Richardson), Misantla, Laguna 
Verde (M. Trujillo), Jalapa (de Oca®), Vera Cruz (W. B. £.), Playa Vicente 
(Boucard®, M. Trujillo), Uvero (Sumichrast 1°), Valle Real, Alvarado (Deppe), 
Cateman (Boucard*), Teapa (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Yak-Jonat?!, Chem-zonat ”!, 
Buctzotz, Izamal, Peto, Meco™ (G. F. Gaumer), Merida (Schott); BririsH 
Honpuras, Corosal (foe), Orange Walk (G. &. Gaumer), Belize, San Antonio, 
Cayo, San Felipe (Blancaneaux); Guatemata’, Choctum (0. 8S. & F. D. G.); 
SaLvapor, Volcan de San Miguel (W. B. Richardson), La Union (0. S.) ; Honpuras 8, 
Omoa (Leyland’), Truxillo (Townsend *?), Medina, San Pedro (G. Ml. Whitely®), 
Tigre I.4 and Taulevi (Zaylor?°); Nicaragua, Escondido R. (Richmond *°), Grey- 
town (Holland), Chontales (Belt}*), La Libertad in Chontales, Leon (W. B. 
Richardson), San Juan del Sur’, Sucuya?9, Omotepe *° (Nutting), Virgin Bay 
(Bridges), Volcan de Chinandega (W. B. Richardson); Costa Rica (Carmiol ), 
La Palma (Nutting "). 
Gould’s original specimen, on which he based his description and drew the plate in 
the first edition of his Monograph, was stated to have come from the Mexican State of 
Tamaulipas!, Mr. Richardson sent usan adult male from Tampico, on the boundary of 
the States of Tamaulipas and Vera Cruz, and we have many examples both from him 
and other collectors from thence southwards, all through the lowlands of Vera Cruz 
and Tabasco. Trogon melanocephalus also occurs in Yucatan and British Honduras, 
but in Eastern Guatemala it appears to be quite rare, as very few specimens have come 
under our notice from that country. It appears to be common on both sides of the 
mountain-range of Honduras, and also in Nicaragua. In Costa Rica, according to 
Mr. Nutting, it is common at La Palma, where it is to be seen in flocks of a dozen or 
more in the dry open woods away from water. It has a sort of chattering note, low 
and soft. A report of a gun does not startle them, and an entire flock can be secured 
from the same tree. Mr. Richmond gives * a similar account of the bird in the parts 
of Nicaragua he visited, where it is abundant, wandering into the plantations and 
sometimes found as many as six or eight together. . 
The only occasion on which Salvin met with 7’. melanocephalus was when coasting from 
Guatemala to Panama. An opportunity of going ashore occurring when the steamer 
was calling at La Union, he found several birds of this species in the woods close to the 
shore of the Bay of Fonseca. In habits they resembled other Trogons. Trogon melano- 
cephalus and 7. citreolus are closely allied, but the former may readily be distinguished 
by the smaller squarer terminal white spots to the three lateral tail-feathers on either 
side, the absence of the white pectoral band, and the deeper orange of the abdomen. 
Mr. Nutting noted that the skin round the eye in the fresh bird is sky-blue. 
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