PRIONOTELUS TEMNURUS. 
Cuban Trog*on. 
Specific Character. 
Mas. Dorso alisque viridibus, harum secundariis ad apicem albo late unifasciatis, remigibus nigris 
albo fasciatis; rectricibus intermediis sex viridibus, ad apicem (pogoniis expansis) late emar- 
ginatis, reliquis ad basin viridibus, in medio fascia alba alteraque viridi notatis, ad apicem late 
albis. 
The whole of the head and ear-coverts deep glossy steel-blue ; back, lesser wing-coverts, and 
upper tail-coverts shining bronzy green; throat and breast light grey; lower part of the 
abdomen and under tail-coverts scarlet; greater wing-coverts and secondaries black, margined 
externally with green and crossed near the tip with a broad bar of white forming two con¬ 
spicuous bands; spurious wing black barred with white ; primaries black, the outer one 
barred on the basal half of the external web with white ; the remainder with a line of white 
on the basal portion of the outer web, the remaining part of the web being barred with 
white nearly to the tip ; two middle tail-feathers bronzy green passing into deep steel-blue 
at the tip ; the two next on each side deep steel-blue washed with green on their outer 
margins; the three lateral feathers on each side steel-blue at the base, largely tipped with 
white, the white extending nearly to the base on the outer web of the external feather; the 
next two barred with white on the dark portion of the outer web; the white tips of the 
three lateral feathers on each side are, moreover, very finely sprinkled with brown on the 
margin of the outer web and on the basal portion of the inner web ; bill blood-red, with a 
broad mark of black on the culmen; feet brown. 
Total length 10i inches, bill 1, wing 6, tail 6b 
Trogon temnurus, Temm. PL Col., 326.—Vig. Zool. Journ., 1827, p. 443.—Less. Traite d’Orn., 
p 120.—Gould, Mon. of Trog., pi. 19.—D’Orb. in Ramon de la Sagra’s Hist. Pliys. Pol. et 
Nat. de l’ile de Cuba, p. 165, Atlas, tab. xxvi. 
Temnurus albicollis, Swains. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. p. 337.—Gould, Mon. of Trog., syn. spec. 
Temnurus, sp. 1. 
Trogon (Temnurus) albicollis, Gould, Mon. of Trog., List of Plates, sp. 19. 
Prionotelus, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat., pi. lxxxviii. 
Priotelus temnurus, Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, p. 10.—Id. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 70.—Bonap. 
Consp. Gen. Av., tom. i. p. 150.—Cab. Journ. fur Orn., 1856, p. 106. 
“ Temnurus silens, Herz. Wiirtemb.,” Hartl. in Naumannia, 1852, part ii. p. 51. 
Prionotelus temnurus, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 164. 
This Trogon is conspicuously different in form, markings and coloration from every other known species ; 
its most striking features are the broad barring of its wings, and the very singular form of the extremities of 
the tail-feathers. Its native country is Cuba, where it appears to be so common as to be frequently killed 
