TROGON PULCHEIiLUS, Gould. 
Beautiful Trog’on. 
Trog. capite, guld, corpore supra humeris, tectricibus alee, caiiddque splendide aureo-viridibus ; 
primariis rectricibusque caudee sex intermediis nigris ; rectricibus tribus externis albis et ad 
basin nigr is ; abdomine, lateribus, crissoque coccineis ; rostra jiavo; pedibus plumbeis. 
Head, throat, all the upper surface, shoulders, wing-coverts, and upper tail-coverts rich golden 
green ; primaries and six middle tail-feathers jet black ; the three lateral tail-feathers black 
at the base, and pure white for the remainder of their length ; abdomen, flanks, and under 
tail-coverts rich carmine red ; bill yellow ; feet lead colour. 
Total length, 14 inches ; bill, H; wing, ; tail, 7 ; tarsi, f. 
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Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VI. 1838. 
For the discovery of this beautiful species science is indebted to M. D’Orbigny of Paris, who obtained it, 
together with many other rarities, during his travels in Peru. When recently at Paris, I was permitted by 
the Officers of the Zoological Department of the “ Jardin de Plantes” to take a sketch and description of 
the specimen in the national collection, from which the accompanying drawing was executed. 
No species of this group exceeds the present bird either in the richness of its colouring or in the elegance 
of its form. It differs from the Resplendent Trogon in being rather less in size ; in having an elevated tuft 
of feathers springing from the forehead and covering the nostrils and the greater part of the bill, instead of a 
rounded and compressed crest covering the whole of the head as in that species ; in the greater extent of 
the white on the three lateral tail-feathers, and in the prolonged upper tail-coverts exceeding the tail by 
about two inches only. 
At the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Liverpool in September 
1837, I proposed the name of Peruvianus for this species ; but as their Report is not yet published, and 
Mr. Swalnson has since characterized another species under that name, I have found it necessary to alter 
my specific appellation to pulc/iellus in order to prevent confusion. 
