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Descriptions of six new species of birds, by John Gould, Esq. : — 

 Tkogon assimilis. Mas. Trog. vertice, corpore superiore, et pec- 

 tore aureo-viridibus ; loro, auribus, guldque nigris ; rectricibus 

 intermediis duabus aureo-fuscis, viride tinctis; pogoniis lateralium 

 duarum his proximarum utrinque externis virido-fuscis aureo 

 splendentibus, internis autem, apicibusque, nigris; nigris quoque 

 rectricibus externis, modo marginibus pogoniarum fasciis albis 

 tenuibus transversim ornatis ; alis nigris, tectricibus et secondariis 

 lineis late griseis transverse fiexuosis delicatissime pictis. 

 Male. — Crown of the head, all the upper surface and chest rich 

 golden green ; lores, ear-coverts and throat black ; two middle tail- 

 feathers golden greenish brown, tipped with black ; the two next on 

 each side have the inner web and tip black, and the outer web golden 

 greenish brown ; outer feathers black, crossed for a short space on 

 either side the web by very fine irregular bars, and largely tipped 

 with white ; wings black, the coverts and secondaries finely penciled 

 with irregular zigzag markings of light grey ; primaries margined 

 externally with light grey ; abdomen and under surface fine scarlet, 

 separated from the green of the chest by a narrow crescent of white ; 

 bill orange-yellow ; feet yellowish brown. 



Female. — Head, chest and upper surface brown ; two middle tail- 

 feathers dull chestnut-brown, tipped with black ; the two next on 

 each side black on their inner webs and at the tip, and dull chestnut- 

 brown on their outer webs ; the remaining feathers black on their 

 inner webs at the base, largely tipped with white, the intermediate 

 portion crossed by alternate irregular bars of black and white ; wings 

 as in the male, but with the coverts and secondaries freckled with 

 yellowish brown instead of grey ; ear-coverts black ; under surface 

 scarlet, separated from the brown of the chest by a crescent of white ; 

 bill and feet yellowish brown. 



Total length, 10 inches ; bill, 1 ; wing, 5 ; tail, 6 ; tarsi, -§■. 

 Hab. Peru. 



Remark. — Nearly allied to Trogon personata, but differing from 

 that species in the tail being nearly black, in the transverse markings 

 being very slight and in the extremities more largely tipped with 

 white ; the freckled markings of the wing are also much more minute. 

 Cinclosoma cinnamomeus. Cine, toto superiore corpore, scapu- 

 laribus, rectricibus duabus intermediis, pectore ad latera, et later ibus 

 cinnamomeis ; alarum tectricibus nigris, plumis singulis ad apices 

 albis ; lined superciliari indistincte albd ; guld loroque nitide nigris ; 

 magna ovatd maculd infra oculum, et corpore inferiore albis ; pec- 

 tore magna maculd nitide nigrd, formd tanquam sagittce, signatd. 

 The whole of the upper surface, scapularies, two central tail- 

 feathers, sides of the breast and flanks cinnamon-brown ; wing-coverts 

 jet-black, each feather largely tipped with white ; above the eye a 

 faint stripe of white ; lores and throat glossy black, with a large oval 



