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E[ntroctes] macrurus Heine, Joum. fiir Orn., xi, Sept., 1863, 358. 

 [Eutroctes] macrurus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 210 

 (Cartagena). 



CURUCUJUS CLATHRATUS (Salvin). 



LATTICE-TAILED TROGON. 



Much like 0. massena, but smaller, lateral rectrices crossed by 

 narrow lines of white, and adult female with lower breast light brown 

 instead of gray. 



Adult male. — Above nearly uniform metallic green or golden or 

 bronzy green, the upper tail-coverts rarely more bluish, but middle 

 pair of rectrices usually more bluish green (sometimes greenish blue), 

 rather broadly, but not sharply, tipped with black; inner web of 

 second and third pairs of rectrices (from middle) black, the outer 

 web metallic green, bluish green, or greenish blue, tipped with black; 

 remaining rectrices black, crossed on outer web and distal portion of 

 inner web with narrow lines of white, the outermost rectrix with 

 greater portion of inner web thus barred; anterior lesser wing-coverts 

 metallic green or bronze-green, the remaining coverts and the sec- 

 ondaries delicately vermiculated with black and white; remainder of 

 wing dull black or blackish slate, the longer primaries edged with 

 grayish white, this broken into minute freckling on distal portion; 

 loral, orbital, auricular, and malar regions, chin and throat black; 

 chest metallic green or golden-green; remaining under parts pure 

 geranium red, the thighs black or dark sooty slate, the longer feathers 

 sometimes narrowly tipped with pinkish; bill yellow (orange in life ?) j 

 iris brown;" feet brownish or horn color (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 285-302 (295);^ wing, 152-165 (159); tail, 148.5-160 (153.5); 

 culmen, 20-21.5 (20.8); tarsus, 14.5-15.5 (15.1); inner anterior toe, 

 14.5-17.5 (15.5).'= 



Adult f €711 ale. — Pileum blackish slate; remaining upper parts slate 

 color, the middle rectrices darker and more brownish slate, narrowly 

 and rather indistinctly tipped with blackish; rest of tail as in adult 

 male; wings dull blackish slate, the wing-coverts and secondaries 

 minutely and rather indistinctly vermiculated with pale grayish, 

 the longer primaries edged with white; loral, orbital, auricular, and 

 malar regions, chin, and throat dark sooty; chest slate color, passing, 

 through dull slate-gray, into light raw umber or wood brown, the 

 posterior portion sometimes faintly barred; rest of under parts 

 geranium red, the thighs blackish or sooty; maxilla blackish, with 

 lower basal portion, together with mandible dull yellow; feet as in 

 adult male; length (skins), 278-285 (282); wing, 151-165 (158.7); 



o Heyde and Lux, manuscript. & Three specimens. c Nine specimens. 



