TROGON ELEGANS, Gould. 
Graceful Trogon. 
Specific Character. 
Mas. Facie, capite antice, auribus guttureque nigris; alls brunnescenti-nigris, in medio cinereis albo 
transversim flexuose lineatis; rectricibus duabus intermediis proximarumque duarum utrinque 
pogoniis externis cupreo-viridibus; reliquis ad basin nigris, ad apicem albis, in medio pree- 
sertim pogonii externi albo nigroque fasciatis. 
Fcem. Auribus in medio linedque circum oculum albis; torque pectorali subobsoletd; supra et ad 
pectus cinereo-brunneus olivaceo tinctus; alls in medio cinereis maculis saturatioribus notatis; 
remigibus brunneis; ventre antice brunnescenti-griseo in coccineum postice transeunte. 
Male. —Face, fore part of the head, ear-coverts, and throat black; chest, back of the neck, back, 
and upper tail-coverts green; a white crescent separates the green of the chest from the 
breast, which together with the belly and under tail-coverts is scarlet; wings brownish 
black, the primaries having their outer edges fringed with white ; secondaries and centre 
of the wings grey, strongly marked with zigzag transverse lines of black; two middle tail- 
feathers green with bronzy reflections on their outer webs, only the inner webs black; all 
six are largely tipped with black ; the remaining six black at the base and white at the tip, 
the middle portions of these latter feathers barred with black and white; bill yellow. 
Total length about 12 inches, wing 6, tail 7\. 
Female. —Bill yellow; centre of the ear-coverts and a small rim round the eye white; the whole 
of the upper surface and chest greyish brown with a tinge of olive ; primaries brown, their 
outer edges fringed with white; centre of the wings and secondaries grey, faintly speckled 
with spots of a darker colour; a faint pectoral band of white separates the feathers of the 
chest from those of the breast, which is light brownish grey on the upper part, gradually 
passing into scarlet below ; two centre tail-feathers dull brown tipped with black, two next 
on each side black, the remainder are black at the base and white at the tip, the middle 
portion being white, irregularly blotted with black. 
Trogon elegans, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc., 1834, p. 26.—Id. Mon. ofTrog., pi. 3.—Gray and 
Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 69, Trogon, sp. 13. 
Trogonurus elegans, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 14, gen. 2c, 22. 
The beautiful Trogon here figured under the specific title of elegans is a native of Mexico, Guatemala, and 
Honduras, countries rich beyond measure in zoological productions. It is most nearly allied to the bird I 
have called ambiguus, the chief point of difference being in the decided barring of the outer tail-feathers, 
and in the stronger markings of the wings. 
The lengthened tails of many of the Mexican Trogons form a feature which distinguishes them from all 
