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and more whitish on longer primaries; middle pair of rectrices deep 
bronzy or coppery brown, the distal portion cinnamon-brown narrowly 
tipped with black; next three pairs black, the two lateral pairs 
mostly white barred, except for a large terminal area, with black; 
loral and suborbital regions dusky; an incomplete white orbital ring, 
and an oblique patch of dull white across auricular region, the ter- 
minal portion of the latter blackish; malar region, chin, throat, and 
chest grayish brown, the lower chest with feathers narrowly and 
indistinctly tipped with dusky; a rather broad white band (sharply 
defined on both sides) across upper breast; rest of under parts buffy 
white broadly barred with grayish brown, the bars more faint poste- 
riorly, but anteriorly broader and coalescing into a definite band 
next to the white band across upper breast. 
From southern Arizona (Huachuca, Santa Catalina, and eastern 
side of San Luis Mountains; mountains near Tombstone) and ex- 
treme southern Texas (Fort Brown) southward over greater part of 
Mexico, in States of Sonora (Alamos; Ysleta), Chihuéhua (Batépilas; 
Durasno; Rio San Juan; Pifios Altos; Bravo; Barranca de Cobre), 
Nuevo Leén (Boquillo; Cerro de la Silla; Monteréy; Montemorelos; 
Bacaro; Rio Camacho; Villa Grande, Hacienda de la Cruz), Tamauli- 
pas (Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria; Soto la Marina; Tautina; 
Tampico; Alta Mira; Xicotencatl; Rio Corono; Rio Pilén; San 
* Augustin; Santa Leonora; Rio Martinez; Galindo; Guiaves; Monte- 
lunga; Rio de la Cruz; Realito), San Luis Potosi (Villar; Vallés; 
Sierra de San Luis Potosi), Durango (Chacal4; Arroyo del Buéy), 
Zacatecas (Sierra de Valparaiso), Jalisco (Bolafios; Zapotlan; Sierra 
Madre; Angostura; Barranca Ibarra; Las Palmas; Ixtapa; Guada- 
lajara; Ameca; Hacienda San Marcos; Hacienda San Felipe de Hijar; 
Plantanar), Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Presidio de Mazatlan; Rio Acoparuta; 
Escuinapa; Rio Juana Gomez; Mount Juan Lisiarraga; Arroyo de 
Los Pieles; Los Limones), Michoacan (Mount Tancitaro), Mexico 
(Coajimalpa), Puebla (Chietla; Chachapa), Vera Cruz (Orizaba), 
Oaxaca (Talea; Xacdutepec; Juchatengo), and Guerrero (Amula; 
Omilteme) and Territory of Tepic (San Blas; Santiago; Mesccatitlan; 
Rancho El Colomo, Compostella; Sierra de Nayarit). 
Trogon ambiguus Goutp, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835, 30 (northern Mexico); 
Mon. Trog., ed. 1, 1888, pl. 4 and text; ed. 2, 1858, pl. 8 and text.—ScLaTER, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 387 (Talea, Oaxaca).—Sumicurast, Mem. 
Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 562 (alpine region Vera Cruz); La Naturaleza, v, 
1881, 239 (alpine region of Orizaba, Vera Cruz).—Finscu, Abh. Nat. Mus. 
Brem., 1870, 326 (Mazatlén, Sinaloa)—Mzrrmu, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 
1878, 118, footnote (Ft. Brown, Texas).—Ripeway, Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 
iii, 1880, 6, 190, 229; ix, 1886, 161 (descr. adult male; crit.); x, 1887, 147 
(Huachuca Mts., Arizona, etc.; crit.); Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 384; 
Auk, iv, 1887, 161 (Huachuca Mts.).—Covzs, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 
