94 MiCROTROGOX XEW OEXERIC XAME 



III a 



MICROTROGON 



new g-eneric name 



proposed for Trogon ramonianus Des Murs 



By Prof. Dr. EMIL A. GOELDI, 

 Director of the Pará-Museum 



In thc Amazonian region therc cxists a Trogon descri- 

 bed for the first time by Des Murs in the large work trea- 

 ting of the natural history results of the Count de Castelnau 

 South-American expedition, which scems to me worthy of 

 more systematic attention than it has obtained in the prin- 

 cipal ornithological literature within my reach Due to the 

 circumstance hitherto unknown to science that the bird ori- 

 ginally coUected in the Cisandean Peru is also found around 

 Pará, I have been enabled to make a personal acquaintance 

 with it. 



My first and immediate impression on recognising the 

 identity of my Pará-spccimens with the Peruvian bird des- 

 cribed by Des Murs was that in obediance to the princi- 

 pies of our up-to-date systematic praxis the establishment of 

 a new genus was desirable. thc bird claiming an isolated 

 position from ali the other species of the genus Trogon 

 with which I am acquainted. 



There are two striking peculiarities which even at first 

 sight create the feeling of a nccessity for its removal from 

 the original quarters in which it has been billeted. The for- 

 mer is its diminutive size, the adult birds of either sex being 

 no larger perhaps than a halfgrown specimen of the most 

 neotropical species of Trogon personally known to me. The 

 second consists in the fact, that a transverse section of the 



