TROGON ROSEIGASTER, Vieiii. 
St. Doming-o Trog’on. 
Specific Character. 
Mas.— Capite summo et nuclia olivaceo-viridibus ; guld pectoreque cinereis ; humeris tectricibusque 
alarum nigris, plumis singulis anguste albo fasciatis. 
Male ? —Lores greenish black ; crown of the head, nape and upper surface deep oil-green, 
passing into purer green on the lower part of the back and upper tail-coverts ; wings 
slaty black, the coverts and secondaries crossed by numerous transverse well-defined lines 
of greyish white ; primaries barred throughout the entire length of their outer webs with 
white ; chin, throat, breast and upper part of the abdomen dark grey ; lower part of the 
abdomen and under tail-coverts deep blood-red ; two centre tail-feathers bluish green on 
their outer webs and on the tips of both webs ; their inner webs, and a small portion of the 
outer web near the tip, oil-green ; the two next on each side bluish green ; the three outer 
ones on each side bluish green, largely tipped with white; a considerable portion of the outer 
web is also white, interrupted near the tip by an oval spot of bluish green; bill yellow. 
Total length, Hi inches ; bill, i ; wing, 5i; tail, 6i. 
Female ?—Similar in the general arrangement of the colouring, but the wing-coverts bronzy 
green and destitute of the white transverse markings, and the primaries margined instead 
of being barred with white. 
Trogon roseigaster, Vieill. Ency. Meth. Orn., part iii. p. 1358.—Gould, Mon. of Trogons, 
pi. 20.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 149, Trogon, sp. 10.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of 
Birds, vol. i. p. 69, Trogon, sp. 10.—Sclater in Proc. of Zool. Soc., part xxv. p. 235. 
- domicellus, Cuv. 
- rhodogaster, Temm. 
- (Temnurus ?) roseigaster, Gould, Mon. of Trogons, List of Plates, sp. 20. 
Le Couroucou a caleqon rouge, ou Le Couroucou Damoiseau, LeVaill. Hist. Nat. des Courouc., 
pi. 13. 
We are much indebted to M. Salle for having amply supplied us with specimens of this very beautiful species 
of Trogon, which previously was only known to ornithologists from the very bad drawing in LeVaillant’s 
“ Histoire Naturelle des Couroucous.” Its native country is St. Domingo, where several trivial names are 
applied to it; in some of the provinces it is called Calegon rouge, in others Dame, or Demoiselle Anglatse ; 
and also Pie de Montagues, from its continually residing among the mountains. In Mr. Sclater’s paper on the 
birds observed by M. Salle in Southern Mexico, published in the twenty-fifth part of the “ Proceedings of 
the Zoological Society,” with notes by M. Salle, it is stated, on his authority, that the bird “ restricts itself 
to the tops of the loftiest mountains of the interior of the island, and goes in small bands uttering a plaintive 
cry, by imitating which you can entice them near enough to fire upon them ; they perch on the loftiest 
trees, and eat berries of considerable size, which they swallow entire ; they make their nests in the old holes 
of Woodpeckers, piercing them through to the opposite side ; their eggs are white and rounded ; they 
are called Piragua." 
It is much to be regretted that M. Salle does not inform us what, if any, are the sexual differences in the 
colouring of this bird, or whether the specimens with fine transverse lines on the wing-coverts are males or 
females; I have little doubt, however, that this character is peculiar to the males ; and if so, the prominent 
figure in the accompanying Plate represents a female. 
Vieillot was certainly mistaken when he stated that this bird is found in Mexico ; I question very much 
whether it occurs in any other country than St. Domingo; if it does not, it affords another instance of the 
West Indian Islands being tenanted by peculiar species. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
