TKOGON. -431 



Adah fer.iale. Differs from tlie adult male in the absence of the 

 metallic colour in the plumage ; the head, back, throat, and breast 

 slate-grey. Wing 159 mm. 



The female described was collected at Bartica. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JS^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in Britisli Guiana. Bartica, Mazaruni River, Abary 

 River [McConnell collection). 



Exlraliinital Range. Northern Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia. 



Habits. According to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 708) 

 this bird is similar in habits and mode of life to T. melanopterus 

 (= T. viridis), but very local in its distribution. It was common 

 on the sandhills near the Demerara River and on the Essequebo 

 in the vicinity of the Waraputa, where it preferred the light open 

 patches in the woods. 



292. Trogon personatus. 



Masked Trogon. 



Trogoii personatus Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 287, 1842 

 (Corddlerian Andes of Peru) ; Salvin, Ibis, ISSG, p. GO (Iloraima) ; 

 Ogil vie- Grant.. Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xvii. p. 410, 1S92. 



Adult male. Head, entire back, and fore-neck shining green 

 tinged with bronze on the back and fore-neck; upper median 

 and greater wing-coverts black with minute wavy white bars or 

 specklings ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, the 

 outer webs of the primary-quills white ; middle tail-feathers 

 blackish vvith bronze on the outer webs, the lateral rectricos white 

 narrowly barred witb black, becoming entirely black towards the 

 base ; forehead, chin, and sides of face black ; a broad white 

 band across the chest ; remainder of the under surface red shading 

 to rose-colour ; thighs black ; under wing-coverts blackish. 

 " Bill yellow." 



Total length 21)0 mm., culmeu 10, wing 127, tail 130, tarsus 15. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being pale cinnamon- 

 brown on the head, back, and fore-neck. The middle tail-feathers 

 cinnamon and the al)douien pale pink. AVing I2G nnn. 



The nude and female from which the descriptions arc taken 

 were collected l»y Mr. McConnell at ]\lount lujrainia in Octolxr 

 I.S98. 



