-NORTH AMERICAS BIRDS. 



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 Geog. Dist. — 



• * BLTTE-CROWNED KTOTMOT. Momotus cceruleiceps Gould. 

 Eastern Mexico, north to Rio Grande Valley. 



The Motmots, or Sawbilis, as they are called, is a family of twelve or fifteen 

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



• * Paradise Trogan, PAaramaerut mocinno (After MieheleO. 



in the Bio 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 tall-feathers, blue except the tips, where they are black. The head of the 



