206 curucui. 



3.— YELLOW-BELLIED CURUCUI. 



Trogon viridis, Ind.Om.i. 199. Lin. i. 167. Gm. Lin. i. 404. Bor. Nat. ix. 123. 

 Bris. iv. 168. t. 17. 1. itf. 8vo. ix. p. 88. Gerin. t. 189. Spaloivsck. Vog. iii. t.14. 

 Couroucou & ventre jaune, Buf. vi. 291. Pl.enl. 195. 

 Couroucou, 7Vm. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxii. 

 Yellow-bellied Curucui, Gen. 5y«. ii. 488. Shaiv's Zool. ix. pi. 4. 



LENGTH eleven inches and a half. Bill pale ash-colour, scarcely 

 an inch long - ; the upper part of the head violet, with a mixture of 

 green gold ; sides of the head and throat black; the upper part of 

 the body green gold, passing forwards to form a band of the same 

 colour on the breast ; all beneath this is yellow orange ; thighs nearly 

 black, as are the under wing coverts ; the last margined with white ; 

 upper side coverts and scapulars black ; quills black brown, the 

 outer edges, from the base to the middle, white; from this to the 

 end spotted with white; tail cuneiform, the two middle feathers 

 exceeding the outer ones by two inches ; these are blackish, with a 

 green gold gloss ; the second and third the same, but the edges only 

 are green gold ; and the third has only a black tip ; the fourth black- 

 ish, indented with white on the outer edge at the tip ; and the two 

 outer ones, half way from the base, blackish ; the rest white, in- 

 dented as the fourth ; legs feathered to the toes, which are brownish 

 ash-colour. 



Some specimens have the outer tail feathers barred black and 

 white ; and others have the three outer ones obliquely white at the 

 ends, the colours being so separated, but not indented. 



A.— Psittacus flammeus viridis et cinereus, &c. Feuil. Obs. Phys. p. 20. 

 Yellow-bellied green Cuckow, Edw. pi. 3-31. Seligm. Vog. 9. t. 21. 



Size of the last. Bill yellow, surrounded with black feathers, 

 extending round the eyes, and for an inch down the throat ; irides 



