486 TEOQONIDiE. 



Supra saturate gramineo-viridis, nitens, capite summo plumbescenti-nigro, cupreo-viridi vix tincto: subtus 

 gutture toto plumbeo-nigro nitenti viridi lavato, corpore toto reliquo rosaceo-coccineo ; alis plumbeo-nigris, 

 remigibus ad basin in pogonio externo albidis ; cauda chalybeo-nigra, rectricibus tribus utrinque externis 

 'late albo terminatis ; rostro plumbeo, pedibus corylino-carneis. Long, tota circa 13*0, alae 7'9, caudae 8*0, 

 rostri a rictu 1-5, tarsi 0-7. 



2 supra mari similis, capite summo plumbeo : subtus a mento usque ad medium ventris plumbeo ad medium 

 pectus brunneo tincta, ventre reliquo et tectricibus subcaudalibus coccineis, cauda sicut in mare. (Descr. 

 maris et feminae ex Sierra de Valparaiso, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Hah. Mexico {J. Taylor ^ Floresi apud Gould ^ ^), El Pinita in Chihuahua(i?'. Bobinette *), 

 Sierra de Valparaiso, Sierra Madre de Nayarit [W. B. Bichardson^). 



In the first edition of his ' Monograph of the Trogonidse,' Gould tells us that the 

 first intimation he had of the existence of this interesting species was the presentation 

 by Mr. John Taylor to the Zoological Society of an immature specimen about the year 

 1836, which he described and figured under the name of Trogon neoxenus. In the 

 second edition of the same work he states that he subsequently received an adult male 

 and female from the late Mr. Floresi, but was unable to say for certain from what part of 

 Mexico they were brought, but thought they came from the neighbourhood of Real del 

 Monte, a supposition since proved to be erroneous. Besides the specimens mentioned by 

 Gould, two others were acquired for the Berlin Museum, as recorded by Cabanis ^, both 

 from Mexico, but without more precise locality. It is only quite recently that the true 

 domicile of Euptilotis neoxenus was ascertained by our collector, Mr. W. B. Richardson, 

 who obtained five specimens for us in the Sierra de Valparaiso and the Sierra Madre de 

 Nayarit districts, towards the southern end of the great mountain-range which runs 

 more or less parallel to the Pacific Ocean, through the States of Jalisco and Durango 

 to the north-western frontier of the Republic. Since then this Trogon has been found 

 much further north in the same range at El Pinita, in the State of Chihuahua, 

 by Mr. F. Robinette, who was attached to the Lumholtz Archaeological Expedition 

 of 1890-91'*. It is thus extremely probable that Floresi's examples were secured in 

 the mountains near Bolanos, where he certainly resided for some time, and where some 

 of his collections were made. This place is close to where Mr. Richardson secured his 

 birds. The species is doubtless restricted in its range to suitable forests on the great 

 mountain-range already referred to, and forms one of its most characteristic birds, the 

 great Woodpecker, Campophilus imperialis, being another. 



No particulars of the habits of this fine bird have reached us. 



TROGON. 



Trogon, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 167 (1766) ; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 440. 

 Pothinus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 1, p. 180 (1863). 

 Aganus, Cab. & Heine, op. cit. p. 184. 

 Troctes, Cab. & Heine, op. cit. p. 201. 



The genus Trogon is essentially Neotropical, its species ranging from the northern 



