110 Miscellaneom. 



Monte mines in Mexico, which he considers to be the same as the 

 bird above described ; this specimen is now in the Museum at 

 Norwich. — Froc. Zool. Soc, April 8, 1856. 



Description of a new Trogon and a new Odontophorus. 

 By John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., &c. 



Trogon aurantiiventris, Gould. 



Male : Forehead, face and chin dull black ; head, sides of the 

 neck, breast, back and upper tail-coverts golden-green ; wings slat}'- 

 black, the coverts and secondaries finely freckled, and the primaries 

 margined at the base with white ; two centre tail-feathers bronzy- 

 green, narrowly tipped with black ; the two next on each side bronzy- 

 green on their outer webs, the inner webs and the tips black ; three 

 outer tail-feathers on each side black, crossed by numerous narrow 

 bars of, and narrowly tipped with, white ; under surface rich orange, 

 separated from the green of the chest by a semilunar mark of white ; 

 thighs black ; bill orange ; feet dark grey. 



Total length, 10 inches ; bill, | ; wing, 5f ; tail, 6. 



Female : Head, all the upper surface and breast orange-brown ; 

 wing-coverts brown, minutely freckled with brownish-black ; abdo- 

 men pale orange ; two central tail-feathers reddish-brown, narrowly 

 tipped with black ; the two next on each side brown on their outer 

 webs, the interior webs and tips black ; three lateral feathers black 

 at the base, their outer webs and apical portions white, minutely 

 freckled with black, and a narrow irregular band of black near the 

 tip. 



Hab. near David, Veragua. 



Remark. — This species is very closely allied to Trogon puella, 

 being precisely similar in every character, except that of the colour- 

 ing of the breast, which is orange instead of scarlet ; both these 

 species are remarkable for the regularity of the markings of their 

 tail-feathers, and for the markings extending to the tip. 



Odontophorus veraguensis, Gould. 



Male : Crown of the head and crest dark rust-red ; throat black, 

 with a line of white down the centre of each feather ; back reddish- 

 brown, freckled with black, and a faint line of white down the centre 

 of each feather ; wings brown, mottled and freckled with black, and 

 with a small indistinct spot of buff near the tip of each of the coverts ; 

 scapularies brown, with a light stripe down the centre, and with a 

 large blotch of brownish-black near the apex of the inner web ; rump 

 pale brown, obscurely spotted with black ; under surface light cho- 

 colate-brown, with a spot of white more or less encircled with black 

 near the tip of each feather. 



Female : Differs in having the forehead and upper feathers of the 

 crest slaty -brown ; and the spots on the breast smaller and less con- 

 spicuous. 



Total length, 10 inches ; bill, |; wing, 5f ; tail, 2f ; tarsi. If. 



Hah. Veragua. 



