43-4 BIKDS OF BRITISH GL'1.\XA. 



surface orange yellow ; under wing-coverts blacki,<h ; thiglis 

 black. 



Total length 245 mm., culmen IG, wing 115, tail 114, tar.^us 13. 



The male described was collected on the Mazarnni River. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in being pale brown 

 on the head, back, throat, and fore-neek. The nnder surface is 

 pale yellow and the middle tail-feathers chestnut. 



Breedinrj-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undesciibed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Bartica, ]\[azarnni River (McConnell 

 collection); Bartica, Kamakusa, Merumd Mountains (WJnteli/). 



Kxtralimital Range. Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, (Colombia. 



Habits. This bird, according to Schomburgk (Reis. Guian. iii. 

 p. 719), is like T. meridionalis (= 7. violaceus) in its habits and 

 mode of life. 



295. Trogon violaceus. 

 Southern Trogon. 



Trogon violaceus Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 404, 1788 (Surinam) ; Brabourne 



& Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 150, no. 1464, 1912. 

 Trogon meridionalis Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 719, 1848 ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 18S6, p. 61 (Bartica Grove, Camaeusa, Atapurau River, 



Roraima, 3500 ft.). 



Adidt male. Top of head, fore-neck, and breast greenish blue ; 

 forehead, sides of face, and throat dull black; back metallic-green, 

 inclining to blue on upper tail-coverts ; middle tail-feathers green 

 tipped with black, the next two pairs black on inner webs, outer 

 feathers black barred and tipped with white; upper wing-coverts 

 minutely speckled with white, as are also the outer webs of the 

 secondary-quills; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, and quills black 

 with white edges to some of the primaries ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts orange-yellow ; thighs black ; under wing-coverts 

 blackish with pale edges. 



Total length 223 mm., culmen 16, Aving 124, tail 115, tarsus 12. 



The male from which the description is tnkeu was collected on 

 the Ituribisi River in October 1908. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in the absence of 

 metallic in any portion of the j)lumage ; the head, back, and breast 

 \»M-y dark lead-grey. 



