WHITE-TAILED TROGON 



3. Trogon strigilatus chionurus (Sclater and 



Salvin) 

 White-tailed Trogon 



Length 267 mm. (10.50 in.); tail 146 mm. 

 (5.80 in.). 



Male. Head, neck and upper chest black 

 glossed with purplish; lower chest and sides of 

 breast metallic purplish blue; remaining upper 

 parts metallic bluish green; no gray on wings: 

 remainder of under parts deep orange; under 

 surface of tail when closed pure white, not 

 barred. 



Female. Resembling female of T. curucui 

 tenellus except that the brown of the plumage 

 is replaced by blackish slate which extends down 

 to the lower margin of the breast; remainder of 

 under parts bright orange yellow; under surface 

 of tail white barred basally with black. 



Reported from open forest at Gatun by Jewel. 

 Also found at Barro Colorado Island. 



4. Curucujus melanurus macrourus (Gould) 



Large-tailed Trogon 



Length 299 mm. (11.80 in.); tail 168 mm. 

 (6.60 in.). 



Male. Similar to male of the following species 

 C. m. massena; but with a relatively much longer 

 tail. A white band between the green of the 

 chest and vermilion of the remaining under 

 parts. Bill red. 



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