EUPTILOTIS NEOXENUS, Gould. 
Welcome Trog’on. 
Specific Character. 
Mas. Rostro carulescenti-cinereo ; vertice, pectore, sic et dorso summo aurantiaco-viridibus ; capite 
cum penicillo gracili et elongato utrinque ornato ; corpore subtus coccineo. 
Male.—Face, ear-coverts, lengthened tufts posterior to the eye, and chin black ; head oil-green ; 
chest, sides of the neck, tips of the wing-coverts and upper surface bronzy green, passing 
into bluish green on the lower part of the back and upper tail-coverts; bases of the wing- 
coverts and wings brownish black; the primaries margined at the base of their external 
webs with white ; under surface and under tail-coverts fine blood-red ; thighs dull black ; 
tail deep bluish green, the three outer feathers on each side largely tipped with white ; bill 
dark horn-colour. 
Total length, 13 t inches ; bill, 11 ; wing, 8 ; tail, 8. 
Female or Young Male. —Head and face blackish brown ; breast olive-brown, slightly washed 
with bronzy green; upper surface and tail as in the male, but not so brilliant; wings 
similar, but paler, and with some blotches of dull huffy white on the innermost secondaries ; 
abdomen and under tail-coverts light blood-red. 
Trogon ( Calurus) neoxenus, Gould, Mon. of Trogons, List of Plates, sp. 25. 
- neoxenus, Gould, Mon. of Trogons, pi. 25. 
Calurus neoxenus, Gray, List of Spec, of Birds in Coll. Brit. Mus., p. 46.—Gray and Mitch. 
Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 71, Calurus, sp. 5.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 152, Calurus, 
sp. 5. 
I first became acquainted with this species about the year 1836, when an immature specimen came into my 
possession, an examination of which satisfied me that it was the young of a very splendid bird, which could 
not fail of being welcomed with feelings of gratification by every ornithologist; I therefore gave it the name 
of I logon neoxenus (Welcome Trogon), and figured it under that appellation in the first edition of this 
monograph. Subsequently an adult example of each sex were presented to me by the late Mr. Floresi, to 
whose memory a tribute is due for his exertions in the cause of natural science. An examination of these 
additional examples at once convinced me that the species did not belong to the genus Pharomacrus , as I 
had previously supposed, but exhibited characters differing not only from those of that genus, but from 
those of all the other genera of the family, and consequently that a new genus must he established for its 
reception, and this I have accordingly done, under the appellation of Euptilotis. It will be seen, on reference 
to the accompanying Plate, that not only does the bird differ from the Pharomacri in the character of its 
plumage, but that it has a more lengthened and less robust bill, and that the head is adorned with long and 
fine hair-like plumes, a feature very unusual among the Trogons, and which is only to be found in this 
species and to a certain extent in Priotelus temnurus and Trog'oti roseigaster. 
I regret that I did not learn from Mr. Floresi what particular part of Mexico this bird inhabits; but I 
have every reason to believe that it dwells on all the high lands, even farther north than the city, and pro¬ 
bably in the neighbourhood of the Real del Monte mines, as it was in that district that most of his birds 
were procured. At present it is extremely rare in our collections, and examples of no one member of the 
class Aves would be more welcome to collectors both in this country and on the continent of Europe. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
