curucui. 209 



5.— CINEREOUS CURUCUI. 



Trogon strigilatus, Ind.Orn.i. 200. Lin. i. 167. Gm. Lin.\. 402. 



Trogon Cayanensis cinereus, Bris iv. 165. t. 16. 1. Id. 8vo ii. 88. Gerin. t. 188. 



Couroucou de la Guiane, Bris. vi. 293. Pl. enl. 765. 



Cinereous Curucui, Gen. Syn.'n. 4S9. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 10.' 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill one inch, deep ash-colour ; 

 general colour of the body very deep ash, darker on the thighs and 

 legs ; belly, and under tail coverts orange yellow ; scapulars, upper 

 wing coverts, and the greater next the body blackish, transversely 

 striated with narrow whitish lines ; those farthest from the body plain ; 

 under wing coverts deep ash, edged with white ; greater quills 

 blackish ; the first five have white edges for two-thirds of the length, 

 the secondaries the same, and white also at the base ; tail blackish, 

 cuneiform, the six middle feathers six inches and a quarter long, 

 and equal, the three outer on each side shorten by degrees, the 

 exterior measuring less by two inches than the middle ones ; these 

 are striated across, black and white ; legs deep ash-colour. 



Inhabits South America. I observe some to have a pale yellow 

 bill; the outer quills indented with white on the edges; and the 

 three outer tail feathers white, crossed with more numerous black 

 bars on both webs, and the ends of these white for near three-fourths 

 of an inch : supposed to be young birds of the Yellow-bellied, and 

 Violet-headed. 



6— RUFOUS CURUCUI— Pl. xlix. 



Trogon rufus, Ind. Orn. i. 200. Gm. Lin. i. 404. 



Couroucou 4 queue rousse, Buf. vi. 293. Pl. enl. 736. 



Couroucou, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. pl. Ixxvii. 



Rufous Curucui, Gen. Syn. ii. 490. pl. 21. Gen. Zool. ix. pl. 2 & 3. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill dusky ; plumage in general rufous; 

 belly, thighs, and vent yellow ; wing coverts striated black and grey ; 



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