TROGON RAMONIANUS. 
Ramon De la Sagra’s Trogon. 
Specific Character. 
Mas._ Facie nigra ; vertice et pectore resplendenti-cceruleis; abdomine aurantiaco ; alls nigris ; 
rectricibus tribus externis utrinque nigris, /asciis albis regulariter ornatis ad apicem singulis 
albis. 
Male. —Face, ear-coverts and throat black; head, nape and gorget across the breast deep rich 
purplish blue, passing, in some specimens, into green on the outer edges; back and 
scapularies bronzy green, passing into pure green on the lower part of the back and uppei 
tail-coverts ; wing-coverts and secondaries black ; primaries brownish black, slightly fringed 
with white ; flanks slaty black ; abdomen and under tail-coverts fine orange-yellow; thighs 
black ; two centre tail-feathers green; the two next on each side green on their outer, and 
brownish black on their inner webs; all six tipped with black ; three lateral feathers on 
each side black, conspicuously barred, and largely tipped with white ; bill light horn-eolour. 
Total length, 9f inches ; bill, ~ ; wing, 4i ; tail, 5 i. 
Female. —Head, neck, chest and upper surface brownish black ; wing-coverts and secondaries 
black, crossed by fine lines of white ; under surface light orange-yellow. 
Trogon Ramoniana , Deville et Des Murs in Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 331. Castelnau, Exped. 
Amer. du Sud, Zool., Ois., p. 33. pi. xi. fig. 2. 
This bird was first characterized by MM. Deville and O. DesMurs in the “ Revue Zoologique ” for the year 
1849, and was subsequently described and figured in the zoological portion of M. Castelnau’s “ Expedition 
de l’Amerique du Sud,” from specimens brought to Europe by that gentleman. Besides the examples pro¬ 
cured by M. Castelnau, several others have come under my notice ; and I have myself received specimens 
from Mr. Hauxwell, which had been obtained on the Upper Amazon, and still more recently others procured 
on the river Napo, through the Messrs. Verreaux, of Paris, from which we may gather that the true habitat 
of the species is the eastern side of the Peruvian Andes ; hut over what extent of country it ranges, time and 
future research alone can inform us. 
M. Castelnau states that his examples were procured at “ La Mission de Sarayacu, Pampa del Sacramento, 
au Perou.” 
The Trogon Ramonianus is an exceedingly well-marked species, and one which cannot he confounded with 
any other. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
