PLATE II. 



Trogon VIRIDIS: viridi-aureus, subtus luteis, gula nigra, fascia 



pectorali viridi-aurea. Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat, 

 2. 404. n, 3. 



Trogon viridis, Linn. Syst. Nat. edit. 12. 1. p. 167. 3. 



Trogon Cayanensis viridis. Briss. av. 4. p. 168. n. 2 t. 17. 



Couroucou d ventre jaune. Buff. Ois. 6. p. 291. PI. Enl. 195. 



Trogon viridis: viridi-aureus subtus luteis, gula nigra, retrici- 



bus utrinque tribus extimis oblique et dentatim 

 albis. Lath. Ind. Orn. t. 1. p. 199. 2. 



Yellow-bellied Curucui. Lath. Gen. Syn. 2. p. 488. 2. 



This curious and very elegant bird is about twelve inches in 

 length ; the bill an inch long and of a pale cinereous or ashen hue, 

 and, like most other species of this remarkable genus, serrated 

 along the margin. The legs are feathered to the toes, and with the 

 toes and claws are of a pale brown. 



The colour of the head and neck of this species is black, very 

 richly glossed with blue, which appears, in different directions of 

 the light, highly splendid upon its surface. Upon the crown of 

 the head the blue verges into violet and purple, and in descending 

 towards the neck becomes changeable into a fine green, glossed 

 with gold ; these brilliant hues appear also on the sides of the neck, 

 and passing round as a kind of pectorial band forms in particular a 

 rich zone of golden green upon the breast. 



The pale ashen hue of the bill is singularly contrasted with the 

 4eep black and violet of the head and neck, and the sudden tran§k 



