3. TMETOTROGON. 43^ 



blue in both sexes Infraloral space and sifles of the face feathered, 

 feathers behmd t,he eye and ear-coverts produced into Ion- hair- 

 like filaments Upper tail-corerts extend to the middle of the tail. 

 ^^n very slender in proportion to the size of the bird. Upper man- 

 dible not toothed behind the subterminal notch. 

 liange. Mexico. 



1. Euptilotis neoxenus. 



Trogon neoxenus, Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. i. pi. 2.5 [text] (1838) 

 Trogon (Ulums) neoxenus, Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. i. List of piates. 



sp. z^ ( loooj. ' 



Cahirus "^"^euus (?.«,/ p„ 5. i. p. 71 (1845); Gray,Lkt Fissir. In 



Brit. Mus. p. 46 (1848) ; Bonap. Coyup. Gev. Av. i. p. 1-52 (1850) 

 Losmurus neoxenus, Bonap. Camp. Vol. Zyg. p. 14 (1854^ 

 Luptilotis neoxeuus, Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. "ii. pi. 6 rtext|(18o8) 

 Leptuas neoxenus, Cab. ^- mine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 206 (1863). 



^Mt male Head, cheeks, lengthened tufts behind the eves, and 

 throat black shghtly glossed with bluish green, and the top of the 

 head with dull bronze-green ; ends of the feathers of the chest, 

 sidesof neck, back, lesser and median wing-coverts bronzy green 

 shading into bluish green on the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts, basas greyish black; breast, belly, and under tail-coverts 

 blood-red ; thighs blackish grey ; primaries black, white towards 

 the base of the outer web : secondaries black with white bases and 

 greater wing-coverts black, both edged with metallic green • bill 

 blackish horn. Total length ] ;5-3 inches, wing 8, tail 7-6, tarsus 0-7 

 Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the head 

 clieeks, and throat duU blackish grey, and the neck and chest grev' 

 shading into brown on the breast. Otherwise the plumage is the 

 same, lotal length 13-3 inches, wing 8, tail 7-8, tarsus 0-7. 



An immature specimen, probably a young female, resembles the 

 adult, but the beUy and under tail-coverts are pinkish, mixed with 

 buff, and the outer secondaries show traces of having been blotched 

 with buff. 



Hah. Mexico. 



a~e. d 2 ad. et Sierra de Valparaiso, Mexico, Salvin-Godniau Coll 



imm. sk. July, Aug. (Richardson). 



f. ? ad. sk Sierra Madre, Nayarit, 8000 ft., Salvin-Godniau Coll 



Mexico, Julv {Ridiardson). 

 g-i. d 2 ad. sk. Mexico (Floresi). Salvin-Godman & 



^^ Gould Coll^. 



7. T 1 rur . -, (Types of the species.) 



L Imm. sk. [Mexico.] Purchased. 



3. TMETOTROGON. 



Temnotrogon, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zgg. p. 14 (1854). T. 



Type. 

 Tmetotrogon,' Cab.^ ^- Heine, Mus.''llein?ivy^7\m " ' ^"^"'-"'*■^''^^• 



(18ti.3) 



T. I'liodogaster. 



Centre pair of tail-feathers with the outer web and tip purplish 



