Curassows and Trogons 95 
appearance. The female is a very different-looking bird 
from the male, being of a fine brown colour. Dr. Sclater, ina 
paper read before the Zoological Society of London, June 17th, 
1873, stated that in the South and Central American species 
of Crax there is a complete gradation from a species in which 
the sexes scarcely differ, through others in which they differ 
more and more, until in Crax globicera they are quite dis- 
tinctly coloured, and have been described as different species. 
The natives call them “ pavones,” and often keep them tame; 
but I never heard of them breeding in confinement. Another 
fine game bird is a species of Penelope, called by the natives 
“‘pavos.” It feeds on the fruits of trees, and I never saw it 
on the ground. A similar, but much smaller, bird, called 
“* chachalakes,”’ is often met with in the low scrub. 
Mountain hens (species of Tzmamus) were not uncommon, 
about the size of a plump fowl, and tasting like a pheasant. 
There were also two species of grouse and a ground pigeon, 
all good eating. 
Amongst the smaller birds were trogons, mot-mots, 
toucans, and woodpeckers. ‘The trogons are general feeders. 
I have taken from their crops the remains of fruits, grass- 
hoppers, beetles, termites, and even small crabs and land 
shells. Three species are not uncommon in the forest around 
Santo Domingo. In all of them the females are dull brown or 
slaty black on the back and neck, these parts being beautiful 
bronze green in the males. The largest species (Trogon 
massena, Gould) is one foot in length, dark bronze green 
above, with the smaller wing feathers speckled white and 
black, and the belly of a beautiful carmine. Sometimes it 
sits on a branch above where the army ants are foraging below ; 
and when a grasshopper or other large insect flies up and 
alights on a leaf, it darts after it, picks it up, and returns to 
its perch. I found them breaking into the nests of the 
termites with their strong bills, and eating the large soft- 
bodied workers; and it was from the crop of this species that 
I took the remains of a small crab and a land shell (Helzcina). 
Of the two smaller species, one (Tvogon atricollis, Vieill.) is 
bronze green above, with speckled black and white wings, 
belly yellow, and under feathers of the tail white, barred 
with black. The other (Trogon caligatus, Gould) is rather 
smaller, of similar colours, excepting the head, which is black, 
