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Cory 07i the Birds of the West Tndies. 



[July 



Priotelus temnurus (Temm.). 



Tt-ogon tfmnnrns Temm. PI. Col. 

 No. 326 (1S20-39). — Vigors, 

 Zool. Journ.1827, p. 443. — Gould, 

 Mon. Trog. pt. II (1S35).— 

 D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. 

 I^s. Cuba,Ois.p. 165(1840).— GuNDL. 

 Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VI, p. 

 319 (1857). 

 Priotelus temnnrns Bp. Consp. I, 



p. 150 (1S50). GUNDL. J. f. O. 



1856, p. 106. — Brewer, Pr. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (1S60). 

 Gr.\y, Handl. Bds. I, p. 83. (1869) 

 — GrNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 298 (1S66); ih. J. f. O. 

 1S74, p. 165. 

 Priofitcies temnurus .ScL. & S.\LV. Nom. A\iiini Neotr. p. 103 (1S73). 

 Prio7ioteles tevinurns Ct)KY. List Bdb. W. I. p. iS (1S85). 



Sp. Char. yi/(;/t'.— Top of tiie head dark blue, purplish on the crown; 

 back bright green, sliowing a tinge of bluish in some lights; rump 

 snowing distinctl\- bluish, green in some lights ; throat white, shad- 

 ing into gray on tlie breast; belly and under tail-coverts bright red : 

 tail-feathers square at the tips, the two central feathers green on 

 the inner webs, bluish on the outer; rest of tail, e.vcept the 

 three outer feathers, blue; outer tail-feather having the terminal 

 half dull white, gravish on the outer web; basal half of the inner 

 web of outer tail-feather dark blue ; the second and third feathers 

 nearly the same, but having the white on the outer web more re- 

 stricted ; on the third feather the white appears only in two or three 

 spots, but the terminal portion of the feather for an inch or more is 

 entirely dull grayish white; primaries dark brown, the feathers 

 heaxily barred with white on the outer web; some of the coverts 

 also banded with white; lower mandible reddish; upper mandible 

 dark brown. 



The sexe.s are similar. 



Length, 10: wing, 5: tail, 5; tarsus, .50; bill, .62. 



H.\niTAT. Ctiba. 



Gknis Temnotrogon Bo.nap. « 



Tciniiot logon •"B(>.x.\p.\ri'k, Consp. \'olucr. Z\'godact. No. 8, p. 14, 1854." 



Temnotrogon roseigaster (Vieill.). 



Couroneon a ventre rouge, de Saint Dominique-, BlFF. Hist. Nat. Ois. VI, 



p. 2S7 :i779). 



