BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 775 



Pacific slope of Central America, from Guatemala (El Ranclio), 

 through Salvad6r (La Libortdd; Volciln de San Miguel), Honduras 

 (Plains of Comayagua), Nicaragua (Grenada; Chinandega; Volcan 

 de Chinandega; Leon; Matagal])a; Lake Nicaragua; Chontales; 

 Virgin Bay; boundary between Nicaragua and Honduras, 180 miles 

 from Pacific coast) to Costa Rica (Bebedero; Bagaces; San Lucas 

 Island, Gulf of Nicoya). 



Trogon elegans Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., ii, 1834, 26 (Guatemala or Mexico; 

 coll. J. Gould); Isis, Bd. xxviii, 1835, 1025; Mon. Trog., ed. 1, 1838, pi. 3 and 

 text; ed. 2, 1869, pi. 9 and text (Hondiu-as). — Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 

 1837, 337.— Gray, Cat. Fissir. Birds Brit. Mus., 1848, 43 (Guatemala; Mex- 

 ico). — ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 357 (Plain of Comayagua, Hon- 

 duras). — Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 117 (Plain of Comayagua). — Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 

 194 (Guatemala; "Mexico;" Nicaragua); 1872, 313, 322 (Lake Nicaragua and 

 Chontales, Nicaragua). — Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 536 (San 

 Lucas I., Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica).- — Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 

 1892, 449 (Virgin Bay, Chontales, and Volcan de Chinandega, Nicaragua; 

 Comayagua, Honduras; La Libertdd and Volcan de San Miguel, Salvador). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 489. — Underwood, 

 Ibis, 1896, 443 (Bagaces, n. w. Costa Rica). — Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field 

 Mus. N. H., 1907, 88 (El Rancho, Guatemala). — Carriker, Ann, Carnegie 

 Mus., vi, 1910, 557 (shores of Gulf of Nicoya, w. Costa Rica). 



Tlrogoii] elegans Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1845, 69. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 

 149. — Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, 1863, 170 (Guatemala; "Mex- 

 ico"). — RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 276.— Hartert, Kat. Vogel- 

 samml. Mus. Senckenb., 1891, 135 ("Tamaulipas"). 



{Trogori] elegans Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 82, no. 970. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 103.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 147. 



[^Trogonurus] elegans Bonaparte, Consp., Voluc. Zygod., 1854, 14. 



'I\rogon1 personatus (not of Gould) IIartlaub, Verz. Mus. Brem., 1844, 12 

 (Guatemala). 



C[alurus] auriceps (not of Gould) Hartlaub, Verz. Mus. Brem., 1844, 12 (Guate- 

 mala; supposed female). 



TROGONURUS PUELLA (Gould). 



JALAPA TROGON. 



Adult ma?^.— Upper parts (except wings) metallic golden green, 

 occasionally varying to metallic grass green or (as the other extreme) 

 almost golden bronze, the middle rectrices abruptly tipped with 

 black; second and third pairs of rectrices with outer web metallic 

 green, tipped with black (like middle pair), but inner web wholly 

 black; three outer pairs black, tipped with white (the white tip 

 varying from 1.5 to, rarely, 9 mm. in width),'' the remainder black, 

 narrowly barred with white (the white bars much less than half as 



a Very rarely the white terminal bar is narrowly margined terminally with black. 



