TROGON VIRIDIS, Linn . 
Black-wing*ed Trog*on. 
Specific Character, 
Mas. Capite supra guttureque violaceo-purpureis. 
Fcem. Supra et ad pectus saturate plumbeo-cinereus. 
Male. —Bill bluish grey ; crown of the head and chest rich violet purple ; back and rump rich 
metallic green ; upper tail-coverts blue ; two middle tail-feathers green with a tinge of 
purple, two next on each side black on the inner web, and greenish purple on the outer ; 
the three outer feathers on each side black at their base and white at their tips ; wings 
black ; abdomen and under tail-coverts rich orange. 
Total length from 10i to 111 inches, bill 11, icing to 51, tail 61. 
Female. —Head, chest, and all the upper surface deep leaden grey ; wings brownish black ; 
secondaries and scapularies transversely striated with tine lines of white ; abdomen and 
under tail-coverts orange ; three outer tail-feathers on each side brownish black, tipped and 
barred with white. 
Trogon Cayanensis cinereus, Briss. Orn., tom. iv. p. 165, pi. xvi. fig. 1. 
Couroucou de Cayenne, Buff. PI. Enl. 195. 
Trogon strigilatus, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 167. 
-— viridis, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 167.—Vieill. Ency. Meth. Orn., part iii. p. 1361.— 
Less. Traite d’Orn., p. 119.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 69, Trogon, sp. 3.— 
Burm. Syst. Uebers. Tli. Bras., tom. ii. p. 277.—v. Pelz. Orn. Bras., p. 20. 
Couroucou a ventre jaune, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Promer. et Guep., iii.—Courouc. et Tourac., p. 8, 
pis. 3 & 4. 
- albane, Levaill. ibid., p. 10, pi. 5. 
Trogon leverianus, Shaw, Mus. Lever., p. 175.—Vieill. Ency. Meth. Orn., pt. iii. p. 1360.—Gray 
and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 70, Trogon, sp. 21. 
-- violaceus, Spix, Av. Bras., tom. i. p. 50.—Wied, Beitr. Nat. Gescli. Bras., tom. iv. p. 297. 
- melanopterus, Swains. Two Cent, and a Quart., p. 332.—Id. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. 
p. 337.—Gould, Mon. of Trog., pis. 10 & 11. 
“Trogon albiventer, Cuv.,” Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., tom. i. p. 148, in syn. Trogon, sp. 3. 
Aganus viridis, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 196. 
This is one of the Trogons most frequently sent to Europe, no collection of any extent being destitute of 
examples. It ranges widely over the South-American continent, and is also found in the Island of Trinidad. 
While writing I have before me specimens from the latter locality, from Demerara, Cayenne, the river Napo 
