BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 791 



slender, decurved, antrorse bristles; feathers of chin and malar apex 

 antrorse, forminj^ slender bristles, the former strongly recurved; 

 auricular feathers with elongated filamentous tips, curved outward 

 terminally; sixth })rimary longest, the seventh slightly shorter, the 

 tenth (outermost) much less than half as long as eighth; tail much 

 longer than wing, the middle rectrices truncate, the lateral ones sub- 

 truncate at tip, the outermost })air strongly bowed basally. Tarsus 

 about as long as longest anterior toe (without claw), the lower half 

 naked; anterior toes united for basal phalanx only. 



Coloration. — Adult male with upper parts, including wing-coverts, 

 metallic green, the middle rectrices, with outer web, metallic greenish 

 blue, inner web grayish bronze, the throat, chest, and breast slate- 

 gray, the abdomen and \mder tail-coverts red, the lateral rectrices 

 broadly tipi)ed with white; adult female similar, but wing-coverts and 

 secondaries blackish, narrowly barred with wliite. 



Range. — Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



TEMNOTROGON ROSEIGASTER (Vieillot). 



HAITIAN TROGON. 



Adult male. — Pileum rather dull metallic bronze-green or greenish 

 bronze; back, scapulars, anterior lesser wing-coverts, and upper 

 rump brighter bronze-green, passing into pure metallic green or 

 slightly bluish green on lower rump and upper tail-coverts; outer 

 web of middle pair of rectrices dark metallic blue or greenish blue, 

 except a small subterminal (usually triangular) area of grayish 

 bronze or olive bronze, the inner web grayish bronze, bronze-gray, or 

 bronzy olive, broadly tippetl with dark metallic blue; next two pairs 

 of rectrices wholly dark metallic blue or greenish blue, the three outer 

 pairs similar but extensively white terminally, the white area occu- 

 p}ang a much greater portion of outer web (most of outer web on 

 outermost pair), which has a subterminal spot of dark metallic blue 

 or blue-black; under surface of inner web of three lateral rectrices (on 

 each side) with an area (more or less well defined) of metallic grayish 

 between the basal dark metallic blue and a subterminal spot of dark 

 metallic blue or blue-black; ])osterior lesser, middle, greater and pri- 

 mary wing-coverts, alula, and secondaries blackish, more or less 

 glossed witli bronze-greenish (at U^ast on coverts) and narrowly but 

 very regularly barred with wliite; ])rimaries black, their outer web 

 marked with (piadrate s))ots of white, exce})t proximal portion of 

 longer ([uills, which are moi-e or less continuously white or edged with 

 white; lores dusky, passing into slate color on orbital, auricular, and 

 malar regions, chin, and up])er throat, the lower throat and chest 

 slate-gray, more or less strongly glossed (especially on chest) with 

 bronze-green or greenish bronze: breast, uj)])er abdomen, and ante- 



