556 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



281. Pharomacrus mocinno costaricensis Ridgway. 



Trogon pavoninus Temminck, PI. Col., 372 {nee Spix). 



Pharomacrus mocinno De La Llave, Regis. Trim., I, 1831, 48. — Salvadori, 



Atti. R. Ace. Sc. Tor., 1868, 183 (Costa Rica [Durando]). — Frantzius, Jour. 



fiir. Orn., 1869, 313 (slopes of Volcan de Irazu). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 431 (Costa Rica [Carmiol], San Jose [Zeledon]). 



— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1896, 481 (Guatemala 



to Chiriqui). 

 Pharomacrus paradiseus Cabanis, Jour, fiir Orn., 1862, 175 (Costa Rica [Frant- 

 zius & Hoffmann]). ' 

 Pharomacrus costaricensis Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 120 (El 



Zarcero de Alajuela, La Palma de San Jose, Faldas de Irazu). 

 Pharomacrus mocinno, var. costaricensis Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 48 (Volcan 



de Irazu, Navarro, La Candelaria, Juan Vifias, in fact all the mountains 



around San Jose and Cartago). 

 Pharomacrus mocinno costaricensis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 498 



(Irazii [Nutting]). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Volcan de Turrialba, Coliblanco (Ridgway and 

 Zeledon), Volcan de Poas (Zeledon), San Juan de Irazu (Ridgway). 

 Bangs Collection: Volcan de Irazu (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection: Volcan de Poas and Turrialba. 

 Carnegie Museum: Escazu, La Hondura (Carriker); La Estrella de 

 Cartago (Francesco Cooper Ulloa). Seven skins. 

 The Quetzal, as it is known in its native countries, was formerly 

 very abundant throughout the higher portion of the highlands of Costa 

 Rica, being found almost anywhere above 5,000 feet and even lower 

 down wherever forests were found. Now, however, it is not to be 

 found in any numbers in any of the regions where it formerly abounded, 

 except some of the most inaccessible portions of the high volcanoes. 

 It has been hunted so assiduously by the native collectors, for sale to 

 local taxidermists, that birds are now very hard to procure. At the 

 beginning of the breeding season the males are quite noisy, some of 

 the notes being very musical, while others are harsh and discordant. 

 They never leave the dense humid forests in which they live, and 

 feed almost entirely on fruits of various kinds, but are especially fond 

 of that of the " Hira," a tree very abundant at higher altitudes. 

 When feeding the birds usually pluck the fruit on the wing, darting 

 about among the branches in a very graceful manner, never seeming 

 to be bothered by their long tails, but at other times usually sit very 

 quietly, only moving the head slightly now and then, and under such 

 circumstances it is almost impossible to see them. 



