794 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
aa. Smaller (male averaging: Wing 117.8, tail 112.8, tarsus 16, inner anterior toe 
14.4; female averaging: Wing 117.6, tail 113.6, tarsus 16.4, inner anterior toe 
14.4); bill relatively larger and broader; red of under parts lighter. (Isle of 
Pines, south of Cuba.)...............222. Priotelus temnurus vescus (p. 795). 
PRIOTELUS TEMNURUS TEMNURUS (Temminck). 
CUBAN TROGON. 
Adult male——Pileum dark metallic blue, more violaceous on occi- 
put; loral, suborbital, and auricular regions black; back, scapulars, 
and rump metallic green or slightly bronzy green, passing into more 
bluish green on hindneck and upper tail-coverts; six middle rectrices 
glossy blue-black or dark violaceous blue, the middle pair with outer 
webs brighter and less violaceous blue, passing into dark violet-blue 
terminally, their inner webs bronze-green or greenish bronze, passing, 
through blue, into dark violet-blue terminally; three outer rectrices 
(on each side) extensively white terminally, blue-black basally, the 
outer web of second and third with one to three white spots on black 
portion of outer web, the inner web sometimes with one or two trans- 
verse spots of white; lesser and middle wing-coverts dark metallic 
green, broadly margined with much brighter green; greater coverts 
very dark bluish green narrowly edged with brighter bluish green, 
the outer web with a very large terminal subquadrate spot of white; 
alula and primary coverts black, the former with three white spots 
on outer web, the latter with a subterminal spot of white; proximal 
secondaries (tertials) dark metallic bluish green; other secondaries 
black, edged with metallic bluish green and with a very large sub- 
terminal quadrate spot of white on outer web; primaries black, the 
terminal half (more or less) of outer web with quadrate spots of 
white, the basal portion continuously white, except the two outer- 
most, which are spotted to the base; chin, throat, and malar region 
white, passing into clear gray (no. 7) on chest, breast, and upper 
abdomen and sides, the remaining under parts pure geranium red, 
the line of demarkation between the red and the gray forming a very 
sharp transverse line; thighs grayish white, the feathers dark grayish 
basally; maxilla brownish black, except rictal portion, which, together 
with the mandible, is dull vermilion red; iris carmine red;@ feet dark 
brownish (Gn dried skins); length (skins), 247-260 (255); wing, 
117-128 (123.6); tail, 105.5-124.5 (116.4); culmen, 16.5-18 (16.8); 
tarsus, 16-18 (16.8); inner anterior toe, 15-16.5 (15.3).° 
Adult female.—Precisely like the adult male, but averaging slightly 
smaller; length (skins), 248-258 (251); wing, 118-125 (121.8); tail, 
106-120 (114.4); culmen, 16-18 (17.2); tarsus, 16.5-17.5 (17); inner 
anterior toe, 14-16 (15.2).°¢ 
¢ Palmer and Riley. 6 Ten specimens. ¢ Six specimens. 
