492 TEOGONID^. 



Stipra Isete nitide aureo-viridis, loris, capitis lateribus et merito nigris : subtus gutture et pectofe dorso conco- 

 loribuS, hoc late albo marginato ; corpore toto reliquo et tectricibus subcaudalibus cocoineis ; alis nigris, 

 remigibus albo limbatis, tectricibus alarum minute albo vermiculatis ; Cauda nigra, rectricibus utrinque 

 tribiis parte exposita anguste sed distinote albo transfasciatis, duabuS mediis extrofsum fere dorso conco- 

 loribas nigro terminatis, reliquis in pogonio externo quoque dorso concoloribus ; oculorum ambitu ave 

 vivo coccineo ; rostro flavo, pedibus corylinis. Long, tota 10'5, alae 5'0, caudae reefer, med. 5'6, rectr. lat. 

 3"5, tarsus 0"55. 



5 supra omnino brunnea, gutture et pectore concoloribus, mento et capitis latferibus higricantibus, torque 

 pectorali alba, abdomine rosaceo ; alis fusco-nigricantibus extrorsum albido limbatis, tectricibus dorso conco- 

 loribus minutissime nigro irroratis ; cauda fusco-nigricante, rectricibus duabus mediis extrorsum castaneis 

 nigro terminatis, rectricibus tribus externis in pogonio externo et ad apicem albidis nigro variegatis, apici- 

 bus albis, fascia subterminali nigra. (Descr. maris et femina3 ex Duerias, Gruatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



S juv. Cauda plus minusve feminae caudi similis. 



Var. abdomine plus miuusve aurantio nee coccineo unde Trogon aurantiiventris^ Gould. 



Hob. Mexico ( White % Jalapa {de Oca *), Cofre de Perote, Coatepec, Vega del Oasadero 

 (M. Trujillo), Misantla [F. I). G.), Cordova {Salle^^% Uvero (Sumichrast ^% 

 Atoyac {Mrs. H. H. Smith), Pl&,ya Vicente (Boucard^), Guichicovi (Sumichrast ^"j, 

 Chimalapa (Sumichrast ^^ ^^, W. B. Richardson), Izamal, Tizimiu in Yucatan 

 ( G. F. Gaumer ^^) ; British Honduras, Western District [F. Mancaneaux) ; 

 Guatemala, Pie de la Cuesta, Santa Maria near Quezaltenahgo, Retalhuleu, Toliman 

 ( W. B. Eichardson), Pacific roast region ^, Medio Monte, Alotenango, Duenas, 

 Volcan de Fuego [0. S. & F. B. G.), Escuintla (Gould i), Chiriquyu near Coban, 

 Yaxcanmal. Choctum^*, Teleman {0. S. <& F. D. G.) ; Nicaragua, Matagalpa, San 

 Rafael de Norte ( W. B. Eichardson) ; Costa Eica » 28 (Burando i^), Turrialba ^ ^^ 

 Angostura (Carmiol), S. Jose ^, Dota Mts. i^ (v. Fraritzius), Candelaria Mts. 

 (v. Frantzius i^, Boucard i*), Barranca (Carmiol 2^, Zeledon ^^), Navarro (Boucard ^4), 

 Naranjo de Cartago (Zeledon ") ; Panama, David, Boquete (Bridges 20 21^^ Volcan 

 de Chiriqui i3, Calovevora 26, Castillo 26, Sta Fe 25, Cordillera de Tole 25 (Arce). 



This Trogon was described by Gould in 1845, from a specimen said to have been 

 sent from Escuintla in "South America "i, the well-known town of that name in the 

 lowlands Of Guatemala bordering the Pacific Ocean no doubt being the place referred 

 to. It was again descVibed in the same year by Vicomte Du Bus as Trogon xalapensis, 

 and figured in his ' Esquisses Ornithologiques ' ^^. The range of the species is now 

 known to be very extensive, reaching in the north to about the middle of the Mexican 

 State of Vera Cruz, where it is found in some abundance from the neighbourhood of 

 Jalapa southwards. It occurs on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec ^"j but probably only on 

 the eastern side, for we have no record of its being traced to any part of Western 

 Mexico. It is found in Northern Yucatan ^^, in British Honduras, and is a common 

 bird throughout the heavily forested district of Central Guatemala up to Coban and 

 the valley of the Polochic river. In Western Guatemala it is also abundant throughout 

 the region bordering the Pacific Ocean, atid in the mountains inland up to an elevation 

 of about 5000 feet above the level of the sea. Absent, apparently, from Honduras 



