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• ]32. Trogon personatus. 



After leaving Canuto our road lay over a mountain where these 

 birds must be tolerably common. We saw three that day in the 

 oak-forest near the highest point of our road, at an elevation of 

 about 8500 feet, and one in the denser forest lower down. We 

 afterwards met with them occasionally in other parts of the 

 forest until near Cachiri. The skin of these birds is exceedingly 

 delicate ; and the feathers come out in handfuls when they are 

 shot, should they fall even a short distance before reaching the 

 ground. The first two we shot were brought down by a chax-ge 

 of No. 8 ; and when we came to pick them up little but a lump 

 of feathers remained. After this we shot them with the same 

 charge we used for Humming-birds. They are very tame, and 

 generally sit motionless up in the trees (where the cock bird, 

 should his back be turned to you, is very difficult to see), and 

 allow one to ride by within a few yards. I have, however, seen 

 them hawking for insects, and returning to the same perch, like 

 a Flycatcher. From the gullet of one of those we shot we took 

 a lizard. Their range seems to extend from an elevation of about 

 7000 to 8500 feet. Iris dark brown. 



•133. Pharomacrus auriceps. 



We met with this magnificent Trogon, perhaps the most gor- 

 geous of all the denizens of the South-American forests, in the 

 same locality as Rupicola peruviana. Iris dark brown. 



• 134. Nyctidromus albicollis. 



The only Goatsucker of which wewere able to obtain specimens. 

 It was not uncommon at the Lake of Paturia, keeping company 

 with the innumerable bats which flew up and down over the 

 water just after sunset. When among the mountains, we saw 

 Goatsuckers on two occasions ; but whether they were of the same 

 species we could not tell. 



.135. Ch^etura fumosa, Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 204. 

 This little Swift we only met with at Naranjo, where the 

 forest had been cleared. Altitude 2500 feet. Another species 

 of the Cypselida, apparently with a white head or collar, was ob- 

 served by us in the Cocuta valley. 



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