433 c- U R u e U I. 



2. Trogon viridls, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 167. N° 3. 



Y^f^f" LeCouroucou verd de Cayenne, Brif. orn. iv. 168. No. 2. pi. 17. f. j, 



q Le Couroucou a ventre jaune, Buf. oi/.vu 291. 



Couroucou de Cayenne, PI. en!. 195. 

 Yellow-bellied green Cuckow, Edtu. pi. 331. 



Description. J ENGTH eleven inches and a half. Bill pale afh-colour, 

 fcarcely an inch in length: the upper part of the head is 

 violet, with a mixture of green- gold: the fides of the head and 

 throat are black : the upper parts of the body green gold, palling 

 forwards to form a band of the fame colour on the breaft : all be- 

 neath this is yellow-orange: the thighs are nearly black: the 

 under wing coverts the fame, margined with white : the upper 

 wing coverts and fcapulars black: quills black brown; the outer 

 edges, from the bafe to the middle, white, from this to the end, 

 fpotted with white : the tail is cuneiform ; the two middle fea- 

 thers exceed the outer ones by near two inches, and are blackifh, 

 glofled with green-gold; the fecond and third, on each fide, the 

 fame, but the edges only are green-gold ; the third has a black 

 tip ; the fourth is blackifh. alfo, indented with white on the outer 

 edge at the tip ; and the two outer ones, halfway from the bafe, 

 blackifh, the reft white ; and thefe two colours indented into each 

 other, as in the former : the legs are feathered to the toes, 

 with blackifh feathers : the toes and claws are brown afh. 

 Peace. Inhabits Cayenne. 



Trogon 



