TROGON PERSON AT US, Gould. 
Black-faced Trogon. 
Specific Character. 
Trog. vertice, corpore superiore et pectore splendide aureo-viridibus; loris, plumis auricularibus, 
et (fathere nigris; rectricibus caudce duabus intermediis ex aureo virescentifuscis, ad apicem 
nigris; utrinque proximo, pogonio interno et apice nigris, pogonio externo ex aureo virescenti- 
fusco; rectricibus externis nigris, lineis albis crebris et undulatis minute fasciatis, ad apicem 
late niveis; alis nigris, tectricibus et secundariis lineis cinereis minutis et irregularibus crebre 
fasciatis; abdomine et corpore subtiis coccineis; colore coccineo a viridi disjuncto lunula 
alba; rostro aurantiaco. 
Fcem. Capite, pectore et corpore superiore fuscis ; rectricibus caudce duabus intermediis sordide 
castaneis; gutture et plumis auricularibus nigris; abdomine et corpore subtus coccineis, hoc 
colore a fusco pectorali disjuncto lunula alba. 
Male.— Crown of the head, all the upper surface, and chest rich golden green; lores, ear- 
coverts, and throat black; two middle tail-feathers golden greenish brown and tipped 
with black, the next on each side have the inner web and tip black and the outer web 
golden greenish brown ; the outer feathers black, crossed by numerous fine irregular bars, 
and largely tipped with pure white; wings black, the coverts and secondaries finely 
pencilled with irregular zigzag markings of light grey ; primaries margined externally 
with light grey; abdomen and under surface scarlet, separated from the green of the chest 
by a narrow crescent of white ; bill orange-yellow; feet yellowish brown. 
Female. —Head, chest, and upper surface brown ; two middle tail-feathers dull chestnut-brown, 
tipped with black; the two next on each side black on their inner webs and at the tip, 
and dull ehestnut-brown on their outer webs; the remaining feathers black on their inner 
webs at the base, largely tipped with white, the intermediate portion being crossed by 
alternate irregular bars of black and white; wings as in the male, the coverts and 
secondaries freckled with yellowish brown instead of grey, and ear-coverts black ; abdomen 
and under surface scarlet, which colour is separated from the brown of the chest by a 
crescent of white ; bill and feet yellowish brown. 
Total length 11 inches; bill §; wing 5\; tail 6|; tarsi §. 
Trogon personatus. Gould, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ix. p. 237 (1842). 
_- heliothrix. Tsch. Wiegm. Arch. 1844, p. 300, et Fauna Peruana, pp. 41, 257. 
Trogonurus personatus. Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 14. 
Trogon propinquus. Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 175. 
?- assimilis. Gould, P. Z. S. 1846, p. 67. 
Ornithologists are at the present moment divided in opinion as to whether the very common Trogons 
which inhabit the hill-country of Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru are referable to one, two, three, or more 
species, or whether these birds, having minor differences in markings and structure, should be considered 
mere local varieties of a widely spread bird; at all events it has been considered, by some of my colleagues, 
unnecessary to figure more than that first described. 
The bird to which I originally gave the name of personatus is the one chosen for illustration in the 
accompanying Plate. 
