228: BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEU^r. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 
MOMOTUS IGNOBILIS ( Berlepscli ) . 
Momotus brasiJiotsis ignobilis Berl., Journ. f. Orn. 1889. p. 306. 
Momotus ignobilis Berlepscli & Hartert, p. 106. 
Rare. An immature male was shot at Mataban above the falls 
of Maipures. 
Eye vermilion; l)ill black, smoke grey at base of mandible; feet dark 
smoke grey. 
TROGONIDAE— THE TROGONS. 
The Trogons are but poorly represented in the Orinoco region, 
two species only having been observed. 
Trogon viol.^cEus viol.^cEus Gmelin. 
Trogon 7'iolaccus Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 404; Berlepsch & Hartert. 
p. 106. 
A single specimen identified by Berlepsch and Hartert (/. c.) was 
collected at Munduapo February 23, 1890. 
Eye seal brown; bill above blackish, mandible and cutting edges of 
maxilla slate grey ; feet slate color. 
Trogon strigil.vtus strigilatus Linnaeus. 
Trogon strigilatus L. Syst. Nat. ed. 12. 1766. p. 167. 
Trogon viridis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 106. 
This species is not uncommon on the upper Orinoco from the 
fails of Atures onward, and is met with, although rarely, on the middle 
stretches of the river down as far, at least, as the mouth of the Caura 
River. 
In fresh specimens the eye is seal brown, eye-lids blue-grey ; bill 
whitish horn color; feet slate grey. 
PSITTACIDAE— THE MACAWS. IWRROTS. PARAOUETS. 
ETC. 
The Berlepsch and Hartert paper listed seventeen species, twelve 
of which number were observed and collected on the Orinoco proper by 
the writer. The remaining five were recorded from points on the 
Caura River, where Andre and Klages both made collections. Three 
additional species are included in the present paper. 
