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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
coarsely and regularly barred with black. Young male: Head, neck, 
and chest dull brownish gray, paler on chin, browner on chest and 
occiput, almost black on lores, beneath eyes, and terminal portion 
of ear-coverts; an orbital ring (interrupted on middle portion of 
upper eyelid and anterior half of lower lid), and broad oblique bar 
across middle portion of ear-coverts, white; back and scapulars 
grayish brown, becoming more russet on lower back, rump, and 
upper tail-coverts; middle, and many of lesser, wing-coverts buffy 
white, bordered with black, producing conspicuous large spots; 
greater wing-coverts and tertials pale grayish brown, finely sprinkled 
with dusky, and tipped with a large spot of buffy white ; lower parts 
grayish white, the breast and upper belly coarsely spotted or mottled 
with brownish gray; tail much asin adult female. Length about 
11.25-12.00, wing 5.10-5.50, tail 6 50-7.20. Hab. Central and northern 
Mexico, north to southern Texas (ower Rio Grande Valley) and 
southern Arizona. 
389. T. ambiguus GovuLp. Coppery-tailed Trogon. 
c. Adult male: Similar to same sex of T. ambiguus, but upper parts bronzy 
green, the middle tail-feathers golden green, wings rather more 
coarsely undulated, and outer tail-feathers more broadly and regu- 
larly barred with black. Adult female: With black bars on outer 
tail-feathers broader and less numerous (?). Length about 12.00, 
wing 5.00-5.30, tail 7. Hab. Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Sal- 
vador (Libertad). 
T. elegans GouLp. Elegant Trogon.! 
b”. Inner webs of outer tail-feathers uniform black, or black narrowly barred 
with white, in adult males, destitute of bars (except sometimes—in T. 
puella—a terminal white and narrower subterminal black bar). 
c. Adult male: Upper parts and chest pure metallic green, more bronzy 
on back; wings very minutely zigzagged and freckled with white, 
the markings hardly distinguishable at a little distance ; quills with- 
out whitish edgings; outer tail-feathers entirely black, except the 
very broad and abrupt white tip. Adult female: Outer web of outer 
tail-feathers broadly barred with black and white, the inner web 
chiefly uniform black, without any bars. Length about 12.00, wing 
5.50-6.00, tail 7.40-7.50. Hab. Guatemala to northern Mexico (Chi- 
HuUshua) ccrcesovesqessvsesersavaveary T. mexicanus Swains. Mexican Trogon.? 
ce. Adult male: Upper parts and chest bronzy green, asin 7. mexicanus ; 
wings very distinctly undulated with white, the quills edged with 
the same; outer tail-feathers distinctly but narrowly barred across 
both webs with white, and rather narrowly tipped with the same. 
Adult female: Outer web of outer tail-feathers plain white, some- 
1 Trogon elegans Gouin, P. Z. S. 1834, 26. 
2 Trogon mexicanus Sways., Philos, Mag. n. s. i. 1827, 440. 
