488 TEOGONID^. 



pp. 367 ^ 387'; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 132 ^ I860, p. 41 ' : Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. 



iv. Heft 1, p. 167"; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 239"; Salv. Cat, Strickl. Coll. p. 425''; 



Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 161"; Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. pp. 178 '^ 321"; 



Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 444". 

 Togon glocitans, Licht. Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. p. 1 [cf. J. £. Orn. 1863, p. 55) ". 

 Trogon morgani, Swains, apud Gould, Mon. Trog. t. 1 (text) ". 



Supra nifcide gramineo-viridis, dorso vix cupreo tincto ; loris, capitis lateribuB et gula nigris, gutture dorso 

 concolore, torque peotorali nivea, aljdomine et tectricibus subcaudalibus coccineis ; alis nigris, sccundariis 

 extrorsum et tectricibus mediis et minoribus nigris minutissime griseo irroratis ; cauda nigra, rectricibus 

 macula terminali magna quadrata alba, rectricibus duabus mediis dorso fere concoloribus nigro late 

 terminatis ; rostro flavo, pedibus eorylinis, oculorum ambitu ave vivo ooccineo. Long, tota circa ll'O, 

 alsD 5'8, caudee 6"7, rostri a rictu 0'85, tarsi 0"6. 



$ supra rufo-brunnea, capitis lateribus et gula nigricantioribus, macula postoculari alba, gutture dorso conco- 

 lore, torque pectoral! albida, ventre antico brunneo, ventre imo et tectricibus subcaudalibus coccineis ; alis 

 nigricantibus, tectricibus minutissime fulvo irroratis, remigibus extrorsum albo limbatis ; Cauda nigra, 

 rectricibus tribus utrinque externis in pogonio externo regulariter albo vittatis et albo terminatis, rectri- 

 cibus duabus mediis brunneis nigro terminatis. (Descr. maris et feminse ex Sierra Nevada de Colima, 

 Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Juv. tectricibus alarum macula subterminali magna fulva ornatis. 



Hab. Mexico" {Wagler^, T. Mann^% Temisoaltepec {Bullock'^), Keal del Monte 

 {J. Taylor ^), Valley of Mexico [Herrera ^^ ^^j^ Alpine region of Orizaba, Monte 

 Alto, Popocatepetl {Sumichrast '^^), Rio Frio Ixtaccihuatl {W. B. Richardson), 

 Chimalpa, Coapa, Cerro de San Mateo '^ (Ferrari-Perez), Jalapa [de Oca^, 

 Ferrari-Perez^^), Cofre de Perote, Coatepec [M. Trujillo), Tenango de Valle, 

 Sierra de Nayarit, Sierra de Bolafios [W. B . Eichardson), Sierra Nevada de Colima 

 [W. B. Eichardson, W. Lloyd), Omilteme in Guerrero [Mrs. E. H. Smith), Real 

 Arriba [Deppe), La Parada [Eebouch), Cinco Seiiores [Boucard'^), Villa Alta, 

 Oaxnca [M. Trujillo) ; Guatemala [Constancia i^), Santa Cruz Mts., San Geronimo, 

 Chuacus, Volcan de Fuego ^ [0. S. cS: F. I). G.), Santa Maria, San Martin and 

 Cuipache in Quezaltenango ( W. B. Eichardson). 



Trogon mexicanus is a well-known and characteristic species of the forests of the 

 highlands of Mexico and Guatemala, beyond which latter country it has not been 

 traced. It was first discovered in Mexico by Bullock at Temiscaltepec, on the borders 

 of the plateau, and it has since been found in suitable places in all the surrounding 

 country — the Sierras of Jalisco and the Sierra Nevada of Colima, as well as the 

 volcanos of Orizaba, Popocatepetl, and Cofre de Perote. In Guatemala we found it 

 in many parts of the upland districts from an elevation of about 3000 feet to as high 

 as 7000 or 8000 feet or more above sea-level. The forests of evergreen oaks are its 

 chief resort, but it is also found in the thinner forest which clothes the hills of the 

 interior at a lower elevation. On one occasion, when riding along the road from the 

 city of Guatemala to Vera Paz, near the village of Chuacus, we observed a male bird of 

 this species fly from a hole in a small tree growing near the road-side. This hole was 

 about 15 or 20 feet from the ground, and contained three slightly-pointed eggs of a very 

 pale greenish colour. There was no nest, the eggs lying on the floor of the hole. 



