CHAPTER XI 
The Resplendent Trogon and the 
Argus Pheasant 
ONE of the most beautiful birds in the whole world 
—more beautiful, even, than some of the Birds of Para- 
dise and than some of the Humming-birds, even those 
that are not hermits—is the lovely Trogon of Mexico. 
But first I must tell you that there are a great many 
birds called Trogons that live in other parts of America 
as well as in Mexico, and in other parts of the world 
as well as in America. But the most beautiful 
of all of them—which is the only one I shall have 
time to tell you about—is the Resplendent Trogon 
or Quezal—for that is what the Indians call it—and 
it is only found in Mexico, which, you know, is in 
North America, only right down at the southern end 
of it, where there are a good many Humming-birds 
too. There are many more Humming-birds in South 
America than in North America. It is the hot, 
tropical countries they are so fond of. You see they 
like to be with their brothers the sunbeams. 
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