TROGON MASSENA, 
Prince Massena’s Trog’on. 
Gould. 
Male. Crown of the head, all the upper surface and chest fine green ; lores, ear-coverts and 
throat black, gradually passing into the green ; centre of the wing finely pencilled with 
black on a grey ground ; primaries black, margined on their external webs with white ; 
two centre tail-feathers purplish green, tipped with black, the remainder wholly black ; 
breast and under surface rich scarlet ; bill yellow ; feet greyish olive. 
Female. Crown of the head, the upper surface, throat, chest and upper half of the belly dark 
bluish grey ; lower part of the belly, flanks and under tail coverts scarlet ; wings and tail 
black, the secondaries and lesser wing-coverts powdered with extremely fine spots of grey ; 
upper mandible black; lower mandible yellow; feet dark brown. 
Total length, 14 inches ; hill, H; wing, 7i ; tail, 7 ; tarsi, f. 
I BELIEVE I may safely assert that no example of this fine Trogon exists in any of the public or private 
collections of England. On the continent, however, I have had opportunities of examining specimens in 
the Museums at Vienna and Leyden, and in the fine collection of the “ Jardin de Plantes,” at Paris : Prince 
Massena also possesses several examples ; among which there is a series consisting of the old and young 
male, and the female ; and it is from these that my figures are taken. 
In dedicating this species to Prince Massena, I am desirous of paying a just compliment to a nobleman 
ardently attached to the science of Zoology, and to acknowledge his many acts of kindness towards myself. 
Habitat. Mexico. 
