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Our figure of the indented Trogon is from a specimen in 

 the Museum of Paris. The top of the head and quills are 

 deep blue, but on the latter are many white patches ; the 

 nape, shoulders, upper wing-coverts, and upper side of the 

 tail, are green ; beneath, the bird is bluish white, except the 

 belly and vent, which are red. The tail-feathers are very 

 peculiar, each being indented at the extremity, as if the skin 

 had been divided, and the barbs separated. This species is 

 from Cuba. 



We have also inserted the figure of a most magnificent 

 Trogon in the British Museum, which, though it differs in 

 some particulars from the T. Pavoninus of Spix and of Tem- 

 minck, in the pi. col., belongs, in all probability, to the same 

 species. The specimens in the British Museum have the 

 entire head covered with an erect, but extremely soft and 

 silky crest ; whereas M. Temminck's figure, from a bird in 

 Mr. Leadbeater's extensive and valuable collection, has but a 

 slight indication of such a crest, and that merely on the front ; 

 t<he wing-coverts, moreover, like the long feathers of the tail, 

 fall in a very elegant manner over the quills. The whole 

 plumage, but especially the pendant feathers of the wings and 

 tail, are of silky softness, and very brilliant. The head, 

 body, and tail are of the brightest green ; the belly and vent 

 red, and the quills black. The species is from Brazil. 



The birds of the genus Ani are indigenous to the warmest 

 climates of the New Continent. Their wings are feeble, and 

 their flight extremely limited. They cannot bear the wind, 

 and numbers of them perish in the tremendous hurricanes 

 which take place in the countries they inhabit. Their social 

 instinct is truly admirable. They are always found in flocks, 

 tlie least numerous of which are from eight to ten, and many 

 are five-and-twenty or thirty. They scarcely ever separate, 

 but remain almost continually together, whether when flying 

 or at rest ; and even when they perch, it is as nearly as pos- 

 sible to each other. This mutual amity, which constitutes a 



