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adult male, but the longer upper tail-coverts not reaching much, 

 if any, beyond tip of tail (often falling short of tip) ; reiniges black, 

 the primaries broadl}' edged wdth buff; tail black, the three lateral 

 rectrices on each side broadly white distally and on outer web (except 

 basally), the white portion barred with dusky; chin and throat 

 grayish brown; foreneck and chest metallic green; breast, sides, and 

 abdomen (except extreme lower portion of the latter) plain grayish 

 brown (nearly hair brown) ; extreme lower abdomen, hinder flanks, 

 anal region, and under tail-coverts pure geranium red; thighs sooty 

 blackish, the lower feathers glossed with metallic green ; bill blackish; 

 feet dusky (in dried skins). 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult female, but metallic green 

 of head, etc., brighter, bill yellow, breast, abdomen, and sides gray 

 instead of grayish browai, and distal portion of rectrices with more 

 white (the w^liite portion ^^dth much fewer dusky bars). 



Young {nestling, sex not determined). — Pileum, hindneck, back, 

 scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain dark sooty brown 

 (nearly seal brown), some of the longer upper tail-coverts with a 

 narrow mesial terminal streak of dull tawny, the scapulars with 

 large but not well defined spots of tawny-buff; mngs darker sooty 

 brown, the coverts (except primary coverts and alula) with very 

 large spots cf tawny-buff, the remiges broadly edged with the same; 

 four middle rectrices wholly blacl-dsh brown, the lateral rectrices 

 (as far as developed) white; throat naked, the cliin tlunly covered 

 with loose- w^ebbed feathers of dull tawny mixed with dusky; chest 

 dull tawny-ochraceous or clay color, rather broadly barred with 

 dark sooty brown, these bars indistinct anteriorly but very distinct 

 near posterior margin of chest, where the ochraceous area has a very 

 definite convex outline; rest of under parts white suffused with 

 buffy, especially on sides and flanks, which are rather broadly but 

 intlistinctly barred with grayish dusky; bill and feet brownish (in 

 dried sldn). 



High mountains of Guatemala (San Martin, Quezaltenango ; Pie 

 de la Cuesta, San Marcos; Cerro Zunfl and Calderas, Volcan de 

 Fuego; Volcan de Agua; Chiacaman, Chinantla Mountains; near 

 Coban; Raxche, Chilasco, etc.. Vera Paz; mountains of Santa Cruz), 

 Honduras (south and east of Comayagua), and Chiapas; northern 

 Nicaragua (San Rafael del Norte) ? " 



Trogon pavoninus (not of Spix) Temminck, PI. €ol., iii, 1825, pi. 372. — Lesson, 

 Traite d'Orn., 1830, 120.— Wilson, Illustr. Zool., 1831, pi. 6.— Dubois, 

 Orn. Gal., i, 1839, 79, pi. 49. 



Trogon pavonius Gloger, Ilaiid-u. Hilfsb. Nat. 1842, 201. 



o Nicaraguan specimens, which I have not seen, may possibly be referable to 

 r. m. costaricensis. 



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