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1907, 88 (Los Amates, Guatemala). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 

 1900, 19 (Loma del Le6n, Panamd); Auk, xxiv, 1907, 294 (Boruca and Pozo 

 del Rio Grande, Costa Rica). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 562 

 (Costa Rica; crit.; habits). — Ferry, Pub. 146, Field Mus. N. II., orn. ser., 

 i, no. 6, 1910, 265 (Guayabo, Costa Rica; crit.). 



T[rogon] massena Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1845, 70. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 149. 



[Trogoii] massena Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 81, no. 951. — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 560 (hot region of Vera Cruz). — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. 

 Av. Neotr., 1873, 104.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 149. 



Trogon massenx Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 96 (s. Mexico). 



[CiirucujiLsl massena Bonaparte, Consp. Voluc. Zygod., 1854, 14. ^ 



T[roctes'] massenae Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, March, 1863, 204 (Mexico). 



Troctes masseuse Gould, Mon. Trog., ed. 2, 1869, pi. 31 and text (Guatemala). 



E[utroctes'\ massenae Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., xi, Sept., 1863, 358. 



[Eutroctesi massenae Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 210 

 (Mexico). 



T[roctes'\ hoffmanni Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, March, 1863, 204, foot- 

 note (in text) (Costa Rica; coll. Berlin Mus.). 



Elutroclesl hoffmanni Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., xi, Sept., 1863, 358. 



[Trogon] hoffmanni Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 81, no. 954. 



Trogon ertjthronolus MUller, Reis. in Mex., i, 1864, 229 (Mexico); iii, 1865, 562. 



[Trogoni erijthronotus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 83, no. 979. 



CURUCUJUS MELANURUS MACROURUS (Gould). 



LARGE-TAILED TROGON. 



Similar to C. massena, but smaller, with relatively much longer 

 tail, the adult male with a narrow white band between the metallic 

 green of chest and red of breast; quite similar in coloration to C. m. 

 melanurus ,"■ but averaging decidedly larger. 



Adult male. — Above bright metallic green, more or less golden 

 green on back, scapulars, and upper rump, more bluish green (some- 

 times greenish blue) on lower rump and upper tail-coverts; middle 

 pair of rectrices dark metallic bluish green or greenish blue rather 

 broadly (but not sharply) tipped with black, the second and third 

 pairs black, with outer portion of outer web (more or less broadly) 

 dark metallic green tipped with black; remaining rectrices black, 

 their outer webs finely freckled or sprinkled along edge, especially 

 toward base, with pale grayish or dull grayish white; anterior lesser 

 wing-coverts bright metallic green or golden green, the remaining 

 coverts, together with secondaries, delicately vermiculated with black 

 and white; rest of wing dull black or slate-black, the longer primaries 

 edged with white (except terminally); loral, orbital, auricular, and 

 malar regions, chin, and upper throat black; lower throat and chest 

 bright metallic green or golden green, margined posteriorly by a 

 band or line of white across upper breast, this white band sometimes 

 narrowly barred with blackish; rest of under parts pure geranium 

 red, the thighs slate-black or blackish slate; bill yellow (orange in 



« See p. 743. 



