BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 737 
adult male, but the longer upper tail-coverts not reaching much, 
if any, beyond tip of tail (often falling short of tip); remiges black, 
the primaries broadly edged with buff; tail black, the three lateral 
rectrices on each side broadly white distally and on outer web (except 
basally), the white portion barred with dusky; chin and throat 
grayish brown; foreneck and chest metallic green; breast, sides, and 
abdomen (except extreme lower portion of the latter) plain grayish 
brown (nearly hair brown); extreme lower abdomen, hinder flanks, 
anal region, and under tail-coverts pure geranium red; thighs sooty 
blackish, the lower feathers glossed with metallic green; bill blackish; 
feet dusky (in dried skins). 
Immature male.—Similar to the adult female, but metallic green 
of head, etc., brighter, bill yellow, breast, abdomen, and sides gray 
instead of grayish brown, and distal portion of rectrices with more 
white (the white portion with much fewer dusky bars). 
Young (nestling, sex not determined).—Pileum, hindneck, back, 
scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain dark sooty brown 
(nearly seal brown), some of the longer upper tail-coverts with a 
narrow mesial terminal streak of dull tawny, the scapulars with 
large but not well defined spots of tawny-buff; wings darker sooty 
brown, the coverts (except primary coverts and alula) with very 
large spots cf tawny-buff, the remiges broadly edged with the same; 
four middle rectrices wholly blackish brown, the lateral rectrices 
(as far as developed) white; throat naked, the chin thinly covered 
with loose-webbed feathers of dull tawny mixed with dusky; chest 
dull tawny-ochraceous or clay color, rather broadly barred with 
dark sooty brown, these bars indistinct anteriorly but very distinct 
near posterior margin of chest, where the ochraceous area has a very 
definite convex outline; rest of under parts white suffused with 
buffy, especially on sides and flanks, which are rather broadly but 
indistinctly barred with grayish dusky; bill and feet brownish (in 
dried skin). 
High mountains of Guatemala (San Martin, Quezaltenango; Pié 
de la Cuesta, San Marcos; Cerro Zunil and Calderas, Voleén de 
Fuego; Volcan de Agua; Chiacaman, Chinantla Mountains; near 
Coban; Raxché, Chilasco, etc., Vera Paz; mountains of Santa Cruz), 
Honduras (south and east of Comayégua), and Chiapas; northern 
Nicaragua (San Rafaél del Norte) ? 4 
Trogon pavoninus (not of Spix) Temmincx, Pl. Col., iii, 1825, pl. 372.—Lzsson, 
Traité d’Orn., 1830, 120.—Wrtson, Illustr. Zool., 1831, pl. 6.—Dusors, 
Om. Gal., i, 1839, 79, pl. 49. 
Trogon pavonius GLoGER, Hand-u. Hilfsh. Nat. 1842, 201. 
@ Nicaraguan specimens, which I have not seen, may possibly be referable to 
P. m. costaricensis. 
81255°—Bull. 50—11—_47 
