482 TROGONID^. 



nigricante griseo-albido transversim regulariter fasciata, tectricibua supraoaudalibus elongatis sed caudam 

 baud superantibus. 

 d juv. ? similis, capite virescentiore, seoundariis nonnunquam cervino guttatis, caudae rectricibus tribus 

 utrinque exte'rnis acutis efc albo distincte terminatis. (Descr. maris, maris juv. et feminae ex Volcan de 

 Fuego, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Guatemala ", forests of the higher mountains, San Martin in Quezaltenango, Pie 

 de la Cuesta in San Marcos (W. B. Richardson), Cerro Zunil, Volcan de Fuego 

 7000 feet i«, Volcan de Agua {0. S. & F. D. G.), Chiacaman in the Chiantla range 

 (Jide 0. S.\ vicinity of Cohan i^, and the higher forests of Vera Paz, Raxche2o, 

 Chilasco, &c. {Delattre, 0. S. & F. D. G.), Santa Cruz Mts. {R. Owen^^); 

 Honduras, mountains south and east of Comayagua {Taylor ^^) ; Nicaragua, San 

 Rafael del Norte {W. B. Richardson); Costa Rica 22 (Burando''), Turrialba, 

 Cervantes {v. Frantzius «), Volcan de Irazu (v. Frantzius ^, Boncard ^5, Zeledon ^ ^^, 

 NuUing^''), San Jose (Nutting ^% Navarro, Candelaria Mts. {Boucard^% El 

 Zarcero de Alajuela, La Palma de San Jose [Zeledon ^^); Panama, Boquete 

 {Bridges ^ ^), Volcan de Chiriqui, Calovevora, Calobre {Arce «). 



The earlier history of this remarkable bird is best, given in some extracts from the 

 'Ornithology' of Francis Willughby, who describes it in an "Appendix (p. 385) to 

 the flistory of Birds, containing Such Birds as we suspect for fabulous, or such as are 

 too briefly and unaccurately described to give us a full and suflUcient knowledge of them, 

 taken out of Franc. Hernandez especially." After describing the Quetzaltototl he goes 

 on to say: — "The feathers of this Bird are highly esteemed among the Indians, and 

 preferred even before Gold itself; the longer ones for crests, and other ornaments both 

 of the head and whole body, both for War and Peace : But the rest for setting in 

 feather-works, and composing the figures of Saints and other things ; which they are so 

 skilful in doing, as not to fall short of the most artificial pictures drawn in colours. 

 For this purpose they also make use of, and mingle and weave in together with these the 

 feathers of the humming bird. These Birds live in the Province of Tecolotlan beyond 

 Quauhtemallam towards Honduras, where great care is taken that no man kill them : 

 Only it is lawful to pluck off their feathers, and so let them go naked ; yet not for all 

 men indiflferently, but only for the Lords and Proprietors of them ; for they descend to 

 the Heirs as rich possessions. Fr. Hernandez, in some pretermitted annotations adds 

 concerning the manner of the taking these birds some things worth the knowing. The 

 Fowlers (saith he) betake themselves to the Mountains, and there hiding themselves in 

 small Cottages, scatter up and down boil'd Indian Wheat, and prick down in the ground 

 many rods besmeared with Birdlime, wherewith the Birds intangled become their prey. 

 They fly in flocks among trees, on which they are wont to sit, making no unpleasant 

 noise with their whistling and singing in consort. They have by the instinct of nature 

 such knowledge of their riches, that once sticking to the Birdlime, they remain still 

 and quiet, not strugling at all, that they may not mar or injure their feathers. The 



