39^ BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



Description. — Length 285-300 mm. Adult male, crown and hind- 

 neck black, in some with a sheen of violet-blue ; back, scapulars, 

 anterior lesser wing coverts, and rump metallic green, bluish green, 

 or violet-blue; central rectrices metallic bluish green to violet-blue, 

 tipped with black ; three pairs of outer rectrices black on the partly 

 concealed base, broadly white distally; wings and wing coverts (ex- 

 cept as noted) black, with the outer primaries edged narrowly with 

 white toward base ; sides of head, foreneck, upper breast and anterior 

 areas of sides black ; tibia dull black ; rest of under surface orange- 

 red; under wing coverts dark gray, tipped narrowly with grayish 

 white. 



Adult female, upper surface, including anterior lesser wing coverts 

 slate to slate-gray; rectrices slate-black, the three outer pairs tipped 

 and barred rather narrowly with white ; wings black, with secondaries 

 and wing coverts barred very narrowly with white ; longer primaries 

 lined narrowly on outer webs with white, others dotted on this area 

 with white ; side of head, foreneck, breast, and sides slate-gray ; rest 

 of under surface reddish orange, except tibiae which are blackish 

 slate ; under wing coverts slate-gray, very faintly marked with white ; 

 concealed inner webs of base of primaries and secondaries white. 



Juvenile, upper surface and foreneck somewhat brownish slate ; 

 lower breast and abdomen grayish slate basally, tipped and barred 

 subterminally with grayish white ; under tail coverts grayish white ; 

 wings as in adult female ; tail also like adult female, but with white 

 tips on the three outer rectrices somewhat larger. (From Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology no. 120867, collected at El General, Costa Rica, 

 July 4, 1908.) 



A male, American Museum of Natural History no. 389824, taken 

 at El Pozo, Rio Terraba, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, December 2, 1923, 

 by Austin Smith, has the following data : iris dark brown ; eyelids 

 pale blue ; bill blue ; feet lead color. 



Measurements. — Males (14 from Chiriqui and Costa Rica), wing 

 142.0-151.0 (145.5), tail 147.8-151.9 (149.9), oilmen from base 22.3- 

 24.7 (23.9), tarsus 14.0-15.8 (15.0) mm. 



Females (10 from Chiriqui and Costa Rica), wing 142.0-145.8 

 (143.6), tail 142.8-151.0 (147.4), oilmen from base 22.2-23.6 (22.9), 

 tarsus 14.4-15.5 (14.9) mm. 



Weight, male, 93.71 grams (F. A. Hartman) . 



Resident. Found in Tropical and lower Subtropical Zone forests 

 in western Chiriqui. 



This interesting trogon, described from Costa Rica in 1868, has 



