TEOGON. 503 



birds of Trogon massena brought from the Truando river and the delta of the Atrato 

 is one specimen that may belong to T. inacfurus'^. Salmon, who found it in the 

 Cauca Valley of Colombia, states that it feeds on fruit ^. 



13. Trogon massena. 



Trogon massena, Gould, Mon. Trog. t. 16'; Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 96'; 1859, p. 387'; Moore, 



P. Z. S. 1859, p. 53*; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 132 ^ P. Z. S. 1864, p. 364°; Cassin, Pr. 



Ac. PMl. 1860, p. 135'; Salv. Ibis, 1861, p. 146 ' ; 1872, p. 321 "; P. Z. S. 1867, p. 151 '"; 



1870, p. 202 " ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 290 '' ; viii. p. 184 " ; ix. p. 119 " ; Cab. J. 



f. Orn. 1862, p. 174 " ; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 313 '' ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 48 ''; 



Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 239 '' ; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 400 '' ; vi. p. 407 '" ; 



Ridgw. Pr. ir. S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 591 '' ; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nae. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 120"; 



Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 474 ''; Richmond, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 514^*. 

 Trades massena, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 1, p. 204 " ; Gould, Mon, I'rog. ed. 2, t. 31 '°. 

 Trades haffmanni. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Heft 1, p. 204 ". 



Supra nitide viridis, loris, capitis lateribus et mento nigris, pectore toto dorso coneolore, abdomine et tectricibus 

 subcaudalibuB coccineis ; alis nigricantibus, secundariis internis et tectricibus minute albo irroratis ; caudse 

 rectricibua duabus mediis nitide viridibus seneo tinctis, rectrieibus tribus externis nigris, pogonio externo 

 indistincte albido irrorato, rectrieibus reliquis in pogonio externo mediis concoloribus ; rostro flavido. 

 Long, tota 13-0, alee 7"0, caudae rectr. med. 7'2, reotr. lat. 5-0. 



2 schistacea, alis et cauda saturatioribus, abdomine imo et tectricibus subcaudalibus coccineis. (Descr. maris 

 et feminsB ex Choctum et Chisec, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



S juv. caudse rectrieibus tribus lateralibus albo anguste terminatis et pogoniis suis externis albo variegatis. 



Hah. Mexico (Verreaux ^), Playa Vicente (Boucard ^), Uvero {Sumichrast ^% Chimalapa 

 (W. B. Michardson), Teapa {Mrs. H. II. Smith); Bkitish Hondueas. Western 

 District, San Felipe, Cayo {Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Chisec, Choctum, Eaxche ^ 

 Teleraan {0. S. & F. B. G.) ; Hondukas ^, Omoa, San Pedro {Leyland ^), Segovia E. 

 (Townsend ^^j ; Nicaragua, Greytown {Holland ^^), Chontales {Belt ^), Los Sabalos 

 {Nutting ^o), San Carlos, Eana ( W. B. Richardson), Virgin Bay {Bridges) ; Costa 

 Rica J 5 16, Rio Frio {Richmond ^'^), La Raima {Nutting '^^), Angostura ^^ Valza 

 {Carmiol), Tucurriqui i*, Pozo Azul de Pirris^s, Jimenez 22, Naranjo de Cartago^a 

 {Zeledon), San Carlos (Boucard ^'^); Panama, Bugabai\ Volcan de Chiriqui ", 

 Cordillera de Tole 1°, Santiago de Veraguas ^o (Arce), Lion Hill (M'Leannan^ ^^), 

 Truando R. and Delta of the Atrato (W. S. & C. J. Wood''). 



Gould described this species in the first edition of his ' Monograph of the Trogonidae ' 

 from specimens said to have been received from Guatemala 1, and according to Mr. Grant 

 now in the collection of the British Museum. In his second edition Gould adopted 

 Cabanis and Heine's genus Troctes for this bird, a course which has not been followed. 



To the account furnished by Salvin of T. massena for Gould we have little to add, 

 and the following notes give the substance of what is there stated. 



This Trogon, though abundant in many parts of the vast forests which clothe the 

 warmer portions of the eastern side of the great Central-American Isthmus from 

 Mexico to Panama, does not appear to occur in similar tracts on the western or Pacific 



