186 TEOGONID^, TEOGONS ; MOMOTIDiE, SAWBILLS. — GEN. 124, 125. 



124. Genus AGYETRIA Cabanis. 



( • Linne Iliimmmghird . ^ bronzy-green, including middle tail feathers ; 

 throat and breast grass-green, paler on sides ; middle of bell3^ and crissum, 

 white ; wings purplish-browu ; lateral tail feathers black with paler tips ; 

 9 duller, more white below, no green on throat ; wing 2 ; tail 1-| ; bill |. 

 South America; accidental in Massachusetts, one instance (Aug. 1865, 

 Brewster) ; but I am advised that the occurrence is open to suspicion. 

 Allen, Am. Nat. iii, 1869, p. 645 ; jMaynard, Guide, 128. . linn^ei. 



Suhorder OUC'ULI. Onculiform Birds. 

 The nature of this large group has Leen indicated on a preceding page (178). 



Family TROGONID.^. Trogons. 



Feet zyrjodactyle by reversion of the second toe. The base of the short, broad, 

 dentate bill is hidden bj' appressed antrorse feathers ; the wings are short and 

 rounded, with falcate quills ; the tail is long, of twelve broad feathers ; the feet 

 are very small and weak. The general plumage is soft and lax, the skin tender, 

 the eyelids lashed. A well-marked familj' of about fifty species and j^erhaps a 

 dozen genera, chiefly inhabiting tropical Amei'ica. They are of gorgeous colors, 



and among them are found the mSst magnificent birds of 



this continent. 



125. Genus TROGON Auetorum. 



Mexican Trogon. Metallic golden-grccn ; face and 

 sides of head black ; below from the breast carmine ; 

 a white collar on the throat ; middle tail feathers 

 coppery -green, the outer white, barred with black; 

 quills edged with white ; about 11; wing 5-| ; tail 6f. 

 Valley of the Rio Grande, southward. Bd., 69, pi. 40. . . mexicanus? 



Fig. 320. Mexican Trogon. 



Family fflOMOTID^. 



Feet syndactyle by cohesion of third and fourth toe 

 family of tropical American birds, 

 comprising about fifteen species. 

 Neither this nor the foregoing has 

 really rightful place here, but they 

 come on our border, and are in- 

 cluded to illustrate the suborder. 

 In the following species, the central 

 tail feathers are long-exserted, and 

 spatnlate bj' absence of webs along 

 a part of the shaft — a mutilation 

 efl'ected, it is said, by the birds 

 themselves ; the bill is about as 

 long as the head, gently curved ; 



Sawbills. 



s; toniia serrate. 



A verj' small 



Fig. V2l. Bhic-liciidoil S:nyljiU. 



the nostrils are rounded, basal, exposed ; the \vings arc short and rounded : 

 tarsi are scutellate anteriorly. 



the 



