NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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* * BLTJE-CBOWNED JlIOTIIEOT. Momotus cwruleiceps Gould. Geog. Dist. — 

 Eastern Mexico, north to Rio Grande Valley. 



Tlie Motmots, or Sawbills, as tliey are called, is a family of twelve or fifteen 

 species inhabiting tropical America, the present species coming very near our border 



• • Pakadise Trogah, Pharomacrus mscinno (Alter Michelet). 



in the Rio Grande Valley. They are birds of striking plumage, the general color 

 being plain greenish, tinged with olive; the ear-coverets are rather lengthened and 

 stiffened and chiefly black, but partly blue. They have lengthened and usually spatu- 

 late middle tail-feathers, blue except the tips, where they are black. The head of the 



