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March 10, 1835. 

 Wniiam Yarrell, Esq., in tlie Chair. 



Specimens were exhibite(l of several species of Trogon, partly 

 from the Society's coUection, and partly from that of Mr. Gould; 

 and, at the reąuest of the Chairman, Mr. Gould called the attention 

 of the Meeting to some of the more interesting among thera, 



One of them was the Bird represented by M. Temminck, in his 

 ' Planches Coloriėes', under the name of Trog. fasciatus ; and on this 

 Mr. Gould reraarked, that having had an opportunity of examining 

 the drawing made by Forster, on vvhich Pennant's original descrip- 

 tion was founded, he had ascertained that it represented a species 

 altogether distinct from M. Temminck's J5ėrrf, and mucli more nearly 

 resembling Trog. Malabaricus. As the name of Trog. fasciatus 

 mušt necessarily remain with the species originally described under 

 it, the one figured by M. Temminck reąuires another designation; 

 and Mr. Gould proposed for it that of Trog. Temminckii. 



Another, was the splendid species figured by M. Temminck, in 

 the šame vvork, under the name of Trog. pavoninus, a name by vvhich 

 it is now generally known; but on referring to M. Spix's 'Avium 

 Brasiliensium Species Novse,' the original description and figure of 

 Trog. 'pavoninus, Spix, appear to Mr. Gould to have reference to a 

 totally different species, distinguishable by its smaller size, by the 

 absence of crest from its head, by the comparative shortness of its 

 hinder back plumes (wluch do not extend more than a few inches 

 beyond the tail), and by the vvhole of the tail-feathers being black. 

 The species exhibiting the peculiarities just adverted to will, of 

 course, retain its original name of Trog. pavoninus ; for the other 

 Mr. Gould proposed that of 



Trogon resplendens. Trog. pluniis capitis notceigue laxis, lan- 

 ceolatis, illius cristam efformantibus, hujus posterioribus longissi- 

 mis, tripedalibus ; supra et ad guttur pectusąue splendide aureo- 

 viridis ; ventre crissoque coccineis ; rectrtcibus sex intermediis 

 nigris, cceteris albis ad apicem tantummodo nigris. 



Foem.? vel Junior ? Capite, gutture, pectoreque obscure viridibus ; 

 dorso viridi; ventre cinerascenti-brunneo ; crisso coccineo; capite 

 subcristato ; tectricibus caudce superioribus brevioribus ; rectrtci- 

 bus externis tribus vtrinque albis nigro fasciatis. 



Rostrum flavum, in foemina? juniori? higrum: tarsi brunnei. 



Hab. in Mexico in provinciis Austrum spectantibus. 



Mr. Gould also characterized two species, hitherto apparently un- 

 described. 



No. XXVII. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 



