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proximal secondaries very narrowly barred with light gray, distal 

 secondaries with small spots of white along edge of outer web, and 

 anterior underparts (in younger specimens) intermixed with dull 

 blackish slate. 



Eastern Panama (Panama; Lion Hill; Cascajal, Code), north- 

 western Colombia (Rio Truando; valley of Rio Magdalena; Paturia; 

 Remedios, Medellin, and Nechi, Antioqula; Carmen; near Jimenez; 

 20 miles from Honda, Tolima, 2,000 feet), and western Ecuador 

 (Guayaquil; Balzar Mountains; Cachavi, 500 feet; Foreste del Rio 

 Peripa). 



Trogon melanopterus (not of Swainson) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 

 136 (Rio Tniando, n. w. Colombia). 



Trogon viridis (not of Linnaeus) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 290.(Lion 

 Hill, Panama). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 364 

 (Lion Hill). 



Trogon chionurus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 843 (Lion 

 Hill, Panama; coll. Salvin and Godman); 1871, 374 (crit.); 1879, 535, 549 

 (Remedios and Nechi, Antioquia, Colombia).— Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 130 (Mag- 

 dalena Valley, Colombia), 374 (Paturia, Colombia). — Berlepsch, Journ. fiir 

 Om., 1884, 318 (Paturia).— Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 460 

 (Verdgua, Panamd; Remedies and Medellin, Colombia; Balzdr Mts., 

 w. Ecuad6r). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 495. — 

 Hartert, Novit. Zool., v, 1898, 499 (Cachavi, 500 ft., n. w. Ecuad6r).— Sal- 

 vador! and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 1900, 17 (Foreste del 

 Rio Peripa, w. Ecuad6r).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 19 

 (Lion Hill). 



[Trogon] chionurus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 104. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 148. 



Trogon eximius Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., x, 1874 (pub. March, 

 1871), 11, 13 (Panamd; coll. G. N. Lawrence). 



TROGON MELANOCEPHALUS MELANOCEPHALUS Gould. 



BLACK-HEADED TROGON. 



Adult male. — Head, neck, and chest uniform black or slate-black, 

 the occiput and hindneck sometimes faintly glossed with metallic 

 bluish; back, scapulars, anterior lesser wing-coverts, and upper rump 

 bright metallic bluish green to golden green, usually more bluish next 

 to black of hindneck and sometimes intermixed with violet-blue; 

 lower rump and upper tail-coverts rich metallic blue, violet-blue, or 

 bluish violet; four middle rectrices metallic bronze-green to bluish 

 green (rarely blue or violet-blue), abruptly tipped with black, the 

 inner web of second and third rectrices (from middle) wholly black; 

 three lateral pairs of rectrices black, broadly tipped with white (this 

 about 15-30 mm. wide); wings (except anterior portion of lesser 

 covert area) slate-black, the longer primaries edged basally with 

 white; sides and flanks blackish slate or sooty slate, the latter more 

 or less tinged or intermixed with orange-yellow; rest of underparts 

 rich orange-yellow (cadmium or deep chrome), fading into yellowish 



