Cory on the Birds of the West Indies, 1 55 



Priotelus temnuius (Temm.). 



Trogon temnurus Temm PI. Col. 

 No. 326 (1S20-39). — Vigors, 

 Z00l.J0urn.1S27, p. 443. — Gould, 

 Mon. Trog. pt. II (1S35).— 

 D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. 

 Cuba,Ois.p. 165(1840). — GuNDL. 

 Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VI, p. 

 319 (1857). 

 Priotelus iemtinrus Bp. Consp. I, 

 p. 150 (1850). — GuNDL. J. f. O. 

 1856, p. 106. — Brewer, Pr. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860). 

 Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. S3. (1869) 

 — GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 29S (1866) ; ib. J. f. O. 

 1874, p. 165. 

 Prionteles temnurus ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 103 (1873). 

 Prionoteles te7n)iiirus CoRY, List Bds. W. I. p. 18 (1S85). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of the head dark blue, purplish on the crown; 

 back bright green, showing a tinge of bluish in some lights; rump 

 showing distinctly bluish, green in some lights; throat white, shad- 

 ing into gray on the breast; belly and under tail-coverts bright red : 

 tail-feathers square at the tips, the two central feathers green on 

 the inner webs, bluish on the outer; rest of tail, except the 

 three outer feathers, blue; outer tail-feather having the terminal 

 half dull white, grayish on the outer web; basal half of the inner 

 web of outer tail-feather dark blue ; the second and third feathers 

 nearly the same, but having the white on the outer web more re- 

 stricted ; on the third feather the white appears only in two or three 

 spots, but the terminal portion of the feather for an inch or more is 

 entirely dull grayish white; primaries dark brown, the feathers 

 heavily barred with white on the outer web; some of the coverts 

 also banded with white; lower mandible reddish; upper mandible 

 dark brown. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length, 10; wing, 5; tail, 5; tarsus, .50; bill, .62. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Temnotrogon Bonap. 



Tcmnotrogon "Boxaparte, Consp. Volucr. Zygodact. No. 8, p. 14, 1854." 



Temnotrogon roseigaster (Vieill.). 



Couroucou a ventre rouge, de Saint Dominique, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. VI, 

 p. 287 (1779). 



