C U R U C U I. 



485 



Trogon Curucui, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 167. N° 2. 



Le Couroucou Verd du Brefil, Brif. orn. iv. p. 173. N° 4. 



Le Couroucou a ventre rouge, Buf, oif. vi. p. 287. 



. — de Cayenne, PL enl. 452. 



Tzinitzian, Raii Syn. p. 163. — Will. orn. p. 391. 

 Curucui, Rail Syn. p. 45. N° 4. — Will. orn. p. 140. t. 22. 



COMEWHAT lefs than a Magpie : length ten inches and a 

 half. The bill pale yellow : irides golden: the under man- 

 dible furnifhed with (tiff black bridles, and both the eye-lids with 

 black ones : the head, neck, and upper part of the breaft, the 

 back, rump, and upper tail coverts, are of a fhining green, with a 

 glofs of blue in fome lights : the throat is black : the wing co- 

 verts are blueifh grey, marked with numerous zigzag lines of 

 black: the quills are black, with part of the fhafts white: the 

 breaft, belly, fides, and under tail coverts, of a fine red : the 

 thighs blackifh : the upper furface of the tail is green, much cu- 

 neiform, and like the back, except the three outer feathers, 

 which are blackifh, and crofied with flender tranfverfe lines of 

 grey: the legs are brown. Brijfon mentions a fpot of white 

 beneath the eyes, but this does not appear in the fpecimen in the 

 Leverian Mufeum. 



This fpecies inhabits Mexico, Brafll, and Peru. 



The female * is faid to differ, in having thofe parts, 

 which are of a fine brilliant green in the male, black grey, and 

 totally without glofs : the zigzag lines on the wings alfo are lefs 

 confpicuous : and three of the outer tail feathers have the webs 

 marked with black and white : the upper mandible is not yellow, 



RED-BELLIED 

 CURUCUI. 



Description, 



Place. 



Female. 



* Eift. da oif. vi. 288. 



but 



