PHAROMACRUS PAVONINUS. 
Red-billed Train-bearer. 
Specific Character. 
Mas. Rostro ad basin miniaceo, ad apicem flavo ; cauda nigra. 
Male. —Head and breast glossy green in some specimens, rich golden green in others; wings 
and the whole of the upper surface rich glossy green; upper tail-coverts green, the two 
centre ones reaching to the end of the tail, but rarely exceeding it; wings and tail black ; 
breast and under tail-coverts rich scarlet; feathers of the thighs and tarsi black with green 
reflections; irides dark red inclining to carmine ; feet oclire-yellow ; hill carmine at the 
base and yellow at the tip. 
Total length 13? inches, bill 11, wing 7i, tail 7. 
Female. —Head, throat, and chest dark greyish brown, tinged with green; upper part of the 
abdomen dark greyish brown, the lower part and the under tail-coverts deep scarlet; feathers 
of the thighs and tarsi black with green reflections ; shoulders and the whole of the upper 
surface including the upper tail-coverts, which nearly reach to the end of the tail, rich green; 
wings brownish black with the outer edges of the feathers buff; tail-feathers black, the two 
outer on each side obscurely rayed with greyish white ; upper mandible dark brown, under 
mandible dusky carmine becoming brown at the point; irides brown. 
Trogon pavoninus, Spix, Av. Bras., tom. i. p. 47, tab. xxxv.—Steph. Cont. of Shaw’s Gen. Zool., 
vol. xiv. part 1, p. 219.—Gould, Proc. of Zool. Soc. 1833, p. 107, 1835, p. 29, & 1836, 
p. 12.—Id. Mon. of Trog., pi. 23. 
Calurus pavoninus, Swains. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. p. 338.—Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 71, 
Calurus, sp. 2.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., tom. i. p. 293, Calurus, sp. 2.—Burm. Syst. 
Uebers. Th. Bras., tom. ii. p. 273, & ibid, note sp. 3. 
Tanypeplus pavoninus, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 205. 
Pharomacrus pavoninus, Sclat. and Salv. Proc. of Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 583. 
If ornithologists will examine and compare my figures of the various species of this truly beautiful section 
of the Trogonidce, they will perceive at a glance that the characters of each are so clearly defined that but 
little attention will be required to distinguish one from another. The bird here represented is the only 
species of the form that has yet been discovered with a red bill; if, then, this peculiarity be kept in view, and 
the uniform brownish-black colouring of the tail be remembered, the bird will be readily recognized. Its native 
country is the interior of Brazil, where it inhabits most, if not all, the great primaeval forests bordering the 
rivers of that extensive region, but more particularly those which flow into the mighty Amazon. Spix was 
the first who made us acquainted with this fine bird by his figure of it on the thirty-fifth Plate of the first 
volume of his work on the Birds of Brazil. The late John Natterer brought specimens with him when he 
returned from his sojourn of eighteen years in the same country, kindly leaving with me a male and a female 
when passing through London en route to Vienna. He at the same time informed me that he had had 
