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tectricibus subcaudalibus citrino-aurantiis ; caudae rectricibus tribus utrinque albo late terminatis, (Descr. 

 maris et feminse ex Teapa, Tabasco, Mexico, Mus. nostr.) 

 (J juv. caudse rectricibus tribus lateralibus albo terminatis et in pogonio externo albo maculatis. 



Hah. Mexico ^\ Tamaulipas (Gould i), Tampico (W. B. Eichardson), Misantla, Laguna 

 Verde {M. Trujillo), Jalapa {de Om^), Vera Cruz [W. JB. JR.), Playa Vicente 

 [Boucard ^ M. Trujillo), Uvero (Sumichrast ^% Valle Eeal, Alvarado (Deppe), 

 Cateman (Boucard % Teapa (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Yak-Jonat 21, Chem-zonat 21, 

 Buctzotz, Izamal, Peto, Meco 1* (Q. F. Gaumer), Merida (SchoU); British 

 Honduras, Corosal (Boe), Orange Walk (G. F. Gaumer), Belize, San Antonio, 

 Cayo, San Felipe (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala s, Choctum (0.8. & F. 1). G.); 

 Salvador, Volcan de San Miguel (W. B. Eichardson), La Union (0. S.) ; Honduras ^, 

 Omoa (Leyland'^), Truxillo (Townsend^^), Medina, San Pedro (G. M. Whitely^), 

 Tigre I.^ and Taulevi (Taylor ^^); Nicaragua, Escondido E. (Eichmond^^ Grey- 

 town (Holland^^), Chontales (BeW^^), La Libertad in Chontales, Leon (W. B. 

 Eichardson), San Juan del Sur i^, Sucuya ^^, Omotepe 20 (Nutting), Virgin Bay 

 (Bridges), Yo\cdi.n de Chinandega (W. B. Eichardson); Costa Rica (Carmiol^^), 

 La Palma (Nutting 1^). 



Gould's original specimen, on wMcli he based his description and drew the plate in 

 the first edition of his Monograph, was stated to have come from the Mexican State of 

 Tamaulipas ^. Mr. Eichardson sent us an adult male from Tampico, on the boundary of 

 the States of Tamaulipas and Vera Cruz, and we have many examples both from him 

 and other collectors from theuce southwards, all through the lowlands of Vera Cruz 

 and Tabasco. Trogon melanocephalus also occurs in Yucatan and British Honduras, 

 but in Eastern Guatemala it appears to be quite rare, as very few specimens have come 

 under our notice from that country. It appears to be common on both sides of the 

 mountain-range of Honduras, and also in Nicaragua. In Costa Eica, according to 

 Mr. Nutting, it is common at La Palma, where it is to be seen in flocks of a dozen or 

 more in the dry open woods away from water. It has a sort of chattering note, low 

 and soft. A report of a gun does not startle them, and an entire flock can be secured 

 from the same tree. Mr. Eichmond gives ^s a similar account of the bird in the parts 

 of Nicaragua he visited, where it is abundant, wandering into the plantations and 

 sometimes found as many as six or eight together. 



, The only occasion on which Salvin met with T. melanocephalus was when coasting from 

 Guatemala to Panama. An opportunity of going ashore occurring when the steamer 

 was calling at La Union, he found several birds of this species in the woods close to the 

 shore of the Bay of Fonseca. In habits they resembled other Trogons. Trogon melano- 

 cejphahis and T. citreolus are closely allied, but the former may readily be distinguished 

 by the smaller squarer terminal white spots to the three lateral tail-feathers on either 

 side, the absence of the white pectoral band, and the deeper orange of the abdomen. 



Mr. Nutting noted that the skin round the eye in the fresh bird is sky-blue. 



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