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proximal secondaries very narrowly barred with light gray, distal 
secondaries with small spots of white along edge of outer web, and 
anterior underparts (in younger specimens) intermixed with dull 
blackish slate. 
Eastern Panama (Panama; Lion Hill; Cascaj4l, Coclé), north- 
western Colombia (Rio Truando; valley of Rio Magdalena; Patitria; 
Remédios, Medellin, and Nechi, Antioquia; Carmen; near Jiménez; 
20 miles from Honda, Tolima, 2,000 feet), and western Ecuadér 
(Guayaquil; Balzar Mountains; Cachavi, 500 feet; Foreste del Rio 
Peripa). 
Trogon melanopterus (not of Swainson) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 
136 (Rio Truando, n. w. Colombia). as 
Trogon viridis (not of Linneus) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vii, 1862, 290 (Lion 
Hill, Panam4).—Scrater and Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 364 
(Lion Hill). 
Trogon chionurus ScuaTER and Satvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 843 (Lion 
Hill, Panam4; coll. Salvin and Godman); 1871, 374 (crit.); 1879, 535, 549 
(Remédios and Nechi, Antioquia, Colombia).—Wvyartt, Ibis, 1871, 130 (Mag- 
dalena Valley, Colombia), 374 (Paturia, Colombia) —Brruizprscy, Journ. fir 
Orn., 1884, 318 (Pattria)—Granrt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 460 
(Verégua, Panam4é; Remédios and Medellin, Colombia; Balzér Mts., 
w. Ecuadér).—_Satvin and Gopmav, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 495.— 
Harrert, Novit. Zool., v, 1898, 499 (Cachavi, 500 ft., n. w. Ecuaddér).—Sar- 
vapor! and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 1900, 17 (Foreste del 
Rio Peripa, w. Ecuadér).—Banes, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 19 
(Lion Hill). 
[Trogon] chionurus ScLaTER and Savin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 104.—SHarps, 
Hand-list, ii, 1900, 148. 
Trogon eximius LAWRENCE, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y., x, 1874 (pub. March, 
1871), 11, 18 (Panamé; coll. G. N. Lawrence). 
TROGON MELANOCEPHALUS MELANOCEPHALUS Gould. 
BLACK-HEADED TROGON. 
Adult male——Head, neck, and chest uniform black or slate-black, 
the occiput and hindneck sometimes faintly glossed with metallic 
bluish; back, scapulars, anterior lesser wing-coverts, and upper rump 
bright metallic bluish green to golden green, usually more bluish next 
to black of hindneck and sometimes intermixed with violet-blue; 
lower rump and upper tail-coverts rich metallic blue, violet-blue, or 
bluish violet; four middle rectrices metallic bronze-green to bluish 
green (rarely blue or violet-blue), abruptly tipped with black, the 
inner web of second and third rectrices (from middle) wholly black; 
three lateral pairs of rectrices black, broadly tipped with white (this 
about 15-30 mm. wide); wings (except anterior portion of lesser 
covert area) slate-black, the longer primaries edged basally with 
white; sides and flanks blackish slate or sooty slate, the latter more 
or less tinged or intermixed with orange-yellow; rest of underparts 
rich orange-yellow (cadmium or deep chrome), fading into yellowish 
