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ranged low down, ordinarily moving with a subdued humming of 

 the wings that was the only sound that I heard from them. As the 

 woodlands became drier with the cessation of rains, they sometimes 

 fed at higher levels. They were rather quiet for hummingbirds, 

 though I observed a certain amount of fighting among them. When 

 disturbed by my presence, possibly because of the proximity of a 

 nest, they perched near at hand with the tail vibrating in a vertical 

 arc of at least 60°, so rapidly that in the subdued light of the forest, 

 the whitish spot at the tip appeared as a white line while the bird 

 itself was almost invisible in the obscurity. A young bird just from 

 the nest that I caught by hand on March 21 moved the uropygium 

 rapidly in this same fashion, though the tail was only about one- 

 third grown. This juvenile specimen is like the adults, except that 

 the colors are duller. The feet in this species are yellowish white, 

 in contrast to the blackish claws. 



Family TROGONIDAE 



TROGON COLLARIS PUELLA Gould 



Trogon puella Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1845, p. 18 (Escnintla, Guatemala). 

 Carriker found the Jalapa trogon in the Sierra de Tuxtla and 

 collected three pairs on Cerro de Tuxtla on March 11 and 19 and 

 April 1 and 9, 1940, between 1,000 and 2,500 feet elevation. He 

 records that they were as common both on the peak mentioned and 

 on Volcan San Martin as the black-headed trogon is through the 

 lowlands. They ranged almost invariably high among the trees 

 where it was difficult to find them unless they were calling or flying 

 about. 



TROGON VIOLACEUS SALLAEI Bonaparte 



Trogon sallaei Bonapabte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 42, 1856, p. 955 

 (Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico). 



Apparently the gartered trogon was only fairly common. In 

 1939, on March 16, 1 shot a male from a shaded perch in open monte 

 where it was calling steadily. April 10 I collected another male 

 just inside the woods at Arroyo Corredor. In this bird the edge 

 of the eyelid was thickened to form a distinct fleshy ring, light yellow 

 in color, clear around the eye. Carriker in 1940 saw only two, a 

 male taken on February 27 and a female on March 27. All were 

 found near Tres Zapotes. 



TROGON MELANOCEPHALUS MELANOCEPHALUS Gould 



Trogon melanocephalus Gould, A monograph of the Trogonidae, ed. 1, 1838, pi. 12 

 (Tamaulipas, Mexico). 



