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men but that the bird was rare as he had seen only two others, in 

 the collections of Abbe Aubry and Doctor Mauduit. Vieillot ap- 

 parently did not meet with it personally, as he bases his description 

 of the species mainly on the statements of Buffon. 



A E. Younglove secured one in the " mountains," back of Port-au- 

 Prince on June 5, 1866, and forwarded it to the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion where it still remains in the United States National Museum. 

 From that time to the period of the investigations made by Abbott 

 there has been little added to knowledge of the bird in Haiti. Abbott 

 secured one at Moline in southwestern Haiti on January 29, 1918. 

 At Riviere Bar, east of Port-de-Paix, where the birds were common 

 near sea level, he collected five on February 16, 17, and 19, 1917. The 

 only other records available are from the inland hills where one was 

 taken at 900 meters elevation near Moustique March 4, 1917. 



In 1927, Wetmore encountered the trogon first at Fonds-des-Negres 

 April 2, when he collected two at an altitude of 450 meters on the 

 upper course of the Riviere Seche, and heard others near the Coffee 

 Experiment Station below. Others were recorded near Fonds-des- 

 Negres April 5. On the high slopes of La Selle the birds were com- 

 mon from April 10 to 15, and were heard daily calling from the tall 

 pines or from thickets of deciduous forest. On April 12 half a 

 dozen were gathered on low perches in a little grove engaged in 

 mating display. Two, apparently rival males, were matched in 

 harmless combat in which they rested a few feet apart with head out- 

 stretched and tail hanging straight down. At intervals the tail was 

 raised slowly to nearly a right angle with the back and then brought 

 down rather quickly to its normal perpendicular position. At brief 

 intervals one dashed at the other with a loud rattle of wings but ap- 

 parently the two never actually struck one another as the one attack- 

 ing usually passed beneath the opponent. They uttered constantly 

 a rolling note that mingled with the usual cooing calls uttered stead- 

 ily by their companions. Their light-colored eyes and bills were very 

 conspicuous. In the low thickets grown with creeping bamboo tro- 

 gons perched at times within six feet of the ground. A pair taken 

 at Fonds-des-Negres April 2 had the iris light orange, bill bright 

 honey yellow, tarsus brownish gray, and the under side of the toes 

 yellow. 



The Haitians call this species cale^on rouge, dame or demoiselle 

 Anglaise, pie de montagne, or national. 



Beebe observed this species only once west of Miragoane in Jan- 

 uary. Bond records it at the same point, stating that he found it 

 in mangrove swamps at sea level. He also noted it on La Hotte, La 

 Selle, Haut Piton in the Massif du Nord, and at Ennery. He col- 



