432 BIRDS OF BKITISH GUIAXA. 



Breeding-seaso)i. Unknown in British Guiana. 

 Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 

 Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima (McConnell collection); 

 Mount Roraima, 3500 ft. (Whifelg). 



Extralimital Range. Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia. 

 Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



293. Trogon viridis. 



Green Trogon. 



Trogon viriJis Linn. Syst. Nat. 12th ed. i. p. 167, 1766 (Cayenne) ; 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 61 (Bartica Grove, Camacusa, Merume Mts., 

 Atapurau River) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 458, 

 1892 (Demerara); Brabom-ne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 149, 

 no. 1461, 1912. 



Trogon melanopterus (nee Swains.), Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 718, 

 1848 ; Brown, Canoe and Camp Life, p. 154, 1876 (Quitaro Biver). 



'^ Bowclorou " {Broicn). 



Adult male. Head and breast deep blue ; back metallic-green 

 becoming blue on the upper tail-coverts ; wings black with white 

 edges to some of the primaries ; middle tail-feathers bronze-green 

 tipped with black and a shade of blue on the outer webs, the two 

 pairs next to the middle ones black on the inner webs, lateral 

 feathers black tipped with white ; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 orange-yellow ; under wing-coverts black fringed with white ; 

 thighs black. 



Total length 305 mm., culmen 21, wing 14G, tail 150, tarsus 13. 



The male described was collected on the Mazaruni River. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being dusky grey 

 on the upper surface with pale narrow bars on the up[)er wing- 

 coverts and white markings on the primary and secondary quills ; 

 the outer tail-feathers barred and tipped with white. Wing 144 mm. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. " The nest merely con.sists of a hole scooped out of a large 

 round termites' ne.st built on the stem of a tree " (^Broicn) ; " its 

 nest is like that of a Pigeon's, built loosely between the branches 

 of trees" (ScJiomhurgk). 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Upper Takutu 

 Mountains, Mazaruni River {McConnell collection) ; Bartica, Kama- 

 kusa, Merume Mountains, Kamarang River, Quemeta {Whitelg); 

 Kwitaro River (Broicn). 



