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narrower. Some Costa Rican specimens approach them closely in these 

 respects, and the differences appear to be fully bridged over by indi- 

 vidual variation in both series, and to be merely of an average char- 

 acter. Females of the present form, however, are more purely gray, 

 less blackish, and the form is doubtless entitled to recognition. 



Simons secured this trogon at Minca, and Mr. Smith also took it at 

 the same place, as well as at Bonda and Cacagualito. With the ex- 

 ception of a single specimen shot at Cincinnati, June 13, 191 1, the 

 writer failed to find it in the region around Santa Marta, all his speci- 

 mens having been taken at Fundacion, where it was fairly common 

 (as trogons go). Here it was found in the open woodland as a rule, 

 and high up in the trees. It was recorded as far east as Loma Larga 

 by the writer in July, 1920, and was not rare at Valencia. 



187. Trogonurus personatus personatus (?) Gould. 



Trogon personatus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XIII, 1899, 93 (Chirua, 

 La Concepcion, and Macotama). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, 

 1900, 135 (Valparaiso, Las Nubes, and El Libano). 



Twenty-five specimens: Las Nubes, El Libano, Valparaiso, Cincin- 

 nati, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (6,000 feet), Las Taguas, Pueblo 

 Viejo, Las Vegas, San Lorenzo, San Miguel, and Heights of Chirua. 



These agree with Gould's plate (Monograph of the Trogonidcc, Ed. 

 2, 1875, pi. 10), purporting to represent the type. According to veil 

 Berlepsch and Taczanowski (Proceedings Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don, 1884, 307), the Ecuador bird is appreciably different. The series 

 includes two immature females from Las Vegas, May 31. 



A fairly common species throughout its range, which lies in the 

 Subtropical Zone, in the forest-clad slopes of the mountains between 

 4,500 and 7,000 feet. It is a quiet bird, remaining motionless on its 

 perch for long periods at a time, then flying suddenly for a distance 

 of fifty or a hundred feet. It keeps well up in the trees, but not in 

 their very tops. Like all of the family, it is strictly a fruit-eater. 



188. Curucujus melanurus macrourus (Gould). 



Sixteen specimens : Fundacion, Tucurinca, Tierra Nueva, and Tro- 

 jas de Cataca. 



These are larger than Bolivian specimens, assumed to represent true 

 melanurus) the red below is paler and more pinkish, especially pos- 

 teriorly, in both sexes; and the crown, upper tail-coverts, and middle 



