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and more whitish on longer primaries; middle pair of rectrices deep 

 bronzy or coppery brown, the distal portion cinnamon-brown narrowly 

 tipped with black; next three pairs black, the two lateral pairs 

 mostly wliite barred, except for a large terminal area, with black; 

 loral and suborbital regions dusky ; an incomplete white orbital ring, 

 and an oblique patch of dull white across auricular region, the ter- 

 minal portion of the latter blackish; malar region, chin, throat, and 

 chest grayish brown, the lower chest with feathers narrowly and 

 indistinctly tipped with dusky; a rather broad wliite band (sharply 

 defined on both sides) across upper breast ; rest of under parts bulTy 

 white broadly barred with grayish brown, the bars more faint poste- 

 riorly, but anteriorly broader and coalescing into a definite band 

 next to the white band across upper breast. 



From southern Arizona (Huachuca, Santa Catalina, and eastern 

 side of San Luis Mountains; mountains near Tombstone) and ex- 

 treme southern Texas (Fort Brown) southward over greater part of 

 Mexico, in States of Sonora (Alamos ; Ysleta) , Chihuahua (Batopilas ; 

 Durasno; Rio San Juan; Piiios Altos; Bravo; Barranca de Cobre), 

 Nuevo Leon (Bocpiillo; Cerro de la Silla; Monterey; Montemorelos ; 

 Bacaro; Rio Camacho; Villa Grande, Hacienda de la Cruz), Tamauli- 

 pas (Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria; Soto la Marina; Tautina; 

 Tampico; Alta Mira; Xicotencatl; Rio Corono; Rio Pilon; San 

 Augustm; Santa Leonora; Rio Martinez; Galindo; Guiaves; Monte- 

 lunga; Rio de la Cruz; Realito), San Luis Potosl (Mllar; Valles; 

 Sierra de San Luis Potosi), Durango (Chacala; Arroyo del Buey), 

 Zacatecas (Sierra de Valparaiso), Jalisco (Bolanos; Zapotlan; Sierra 

 Madre; Angostura; Barranca Ibarra; Las Palmas; Ixtapa; Guada- 

 lajara; Ameca; Hacienda San Marcos; Hacienda San Felipe de Hijar; 

 Plantanar),Sinaloa (IMazatlan; Presidio deMazatlan; Rio Acoparuta; 

 Escuinapa; Rio Juana Gomez; Mount Juan Lisiarraga; Arroyo de 

 Los Pieles; Los Limones), Michoacan (Mount Tancitaro), Mexico 

 (Coajimalpa), Puebla (Chietla; Chachapa), Vera Cruz (Orizaba), 

 Oaxaca (Talea; Xacautepec; Juchatengo), and Guerrero (Amula; 

 Omilteme) and Territory of Tepic (San Bias; Santiago; Mesccatitlan; 

 Rancho El Colomo, Compostella; Sierra de Nayarit). 



Trogon ambigiais Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835, 30 (northern Mexico); 

 Mon. Trog., ed. 1, 1838, pi. 4 and text; ed. 2, 1858, pi. 8 and text.— Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 387 (Talea, Oaxaca). — Sumichrast, Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 562 (alpine region Vera Cruz); La Naturaleza, v, 

 1881, 239 (alpine region of Orizaba, Vera Cruz). — Finsch, Abh. Nat. Mus. 

 Brem., 1870, 326 (Mazatldn, Sinaloa). — ^Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 

 1878, 118, footnote (Ft. Brown, Texas).— Ridg way, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 6, 190, 229; ix, 1886, 161 (descr. adult male; crit.); x, 1887, 147 

 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona, etc.; crit.); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 384; 

 Auk, iv, 1887, 161 (Huachuca Mts.).— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 



