“This exceedingly well-marked species of Trogon,” Mr. Salvin says, “ seems to occupy a position some¬ 
what intermediate between the two sections represented by T. massena and T. puetta, its real affinity being 
with the former group. The credit of its discovery is due to Enrique Arce, who was employed as a collector 
by Mr. Godman and myself for many years in Central America. 
“ In a collection formed in the neighbourhood of Santiago and Santa Fe in Veragua and forwarded to us 
in 1865, were two males of this species, which I described in the Zoological Society’s Proceedings for 1866. 
Subsequently we received others, including females, from the Cordillera de Tole, Calovevora ; and since 
then the species has been discovered in Costa Rica, specimens having been sent by Carmiol to us, and to 
the Smithsonian Institution from San Mateo by J. Cooper. 
“ The range of the species seems strictly limited to the forests of the mountain-ranges of Costa Rica and 
Veragua, not passing the river San Juan to the northward, or the lowlands of the isthmus of Pamama to 
the southward. No account of its habits has as yet reached us.” 
The front figures in the accompanying Plate are of life-size. 
