TROGON SURUCUA. 
Surucua Trog’on. 
Specific Character. 
Mas. Vertice, cervice pectoreque iridescent!-cceruleis; rectricibus intermediis duabus cwrulescenti- 
viridibus, duabus proximis utrinque pogoniis externis ccerulescenti-viridibus internis nigris, 
harum omnium apicibus nigris, reliquis dimidio basali nigro apieali albo; remigibus nigrescenti- 
brunneis, albo ad pogonia externa jimbriatis. 
Poem. Fuliginoso-cinerea; alls brunnescenti-nigris, remigibus albo Jimbriatis. 
Male. —Crown of the head, back of the neck, and chest changeable green and violet in some 
specimens, and almost pure blue in others ; throat and face black ; back and upper tail- 
coverts deep changeable golden green, inclining to blue on the rump; the two middle tail- 
feathers bluish green, the two next on each side with their outer webs only bluish green, 
the inner black, the whole six tipped with black ; the three outer feathers on each side 
have their basal half black, the remainder white; primaries blackish brown, bordered with 
white on their exterior edges ; secondaries and upper part of the wing freckled with markings 
of black and white ; centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts crimson; bill olive; irides 
reddish brown ; eyelash orange ; feet dark brown. 
Total length 10j inches, bill 1, wing 5, tail 5?. 
Female. —Head, neck, chest, back, and rump sooty grey; lower part of the belly and under tail- 
coverts light crimson; wings brownish black; primaries edged with white; the secondaries 
and upper part of the wings transversely rayed with greyish white; six centre tail-feathers 
brownish grey tipped with black, three outer feathers on each side brownish grey margined on 
their exterior edges and partly so on their inner ones with white; bill olive. 
Surucua, Azar. Apunt. Hist. Nat. Paxar. Parag., tom. ii. p. 373. no. 270. 
Trogon surucura, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., tom. viii. p. 322.—Gould, Mon. of Trog., 
pi. 15.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. iii. App. p. 4, app. to p. 69.—Bonap. Consp. 
Gen. Av., tom. i. p. 148, Harpactes, sp. 2.—v. Pelz. Orn. Bras., p. 19. 
Trogon leucurus, Swains. Two Cent, and a Quart., p. 331.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. 
p. 70, Trogon, sp. 15.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., tom. i. p. 149, Trogon, sp. 15. 
- curucura, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 69, Trogon, sp. 2. 
Curucujus surucua, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 14. gen. 2b. 15. 
Trogon surucua, Hartl. Ind. Azar., p.17.—Burm. Syst. Uebers. Th. Bras., tom. ii. p. 274. 
Hapalophorus surucua, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 199. 
As I have not the slightest doubt that the bird here represented is the Surucua of Azara, I am induced to 
insert the following nearly literal translation of the account he has given of the species in his celebrated 
work on the natural productions of Paraguay :—After informing us that Surucua is its native name in that 
country, he proceeds to state that “ it is not common, and does not quit the largest woods, but generally 
