T ROGON C LA THR A T US, Calvin. 
The Lattice-tailed Trog’on. 
Specific Character. 
Trog. splendide viridis, vix aureo nitens; pileo cyanescenie; facie laterali gulaque nigris; jugulo 
et pectore superiore dorso concoloribus; corpore reliquo subtiis late coccineo; alls nigris, 
tectricibus alarum minoribus viridibus, reliquis autem et remigum secundariorum pogonio 
externo cinereis minute nigro transvermiculatis; caudd nigro terminatd, rectricibus duabus 
mediis omnino viridibus, proximis duabus extiis viridibus intus nigricantibus, reliquis 
quatuor utrinque nigris anguste albido transversim lineatis. 
Fcem. Saturate cinerea, alls et caudd nigricantioribus; rectricibus tribus externis albo anguste 
transfasciatis; abdomine rufescente tincto, ventre imo et crisso coccineis; rostra superiore 
fusco-nigro, basi et mandibuld inferiore flavis (Salvin). 
Male. —Shining green above, slightly washed with blue, but also inclining to golden green; 
the head decidedly darker and much more blue; least wing-coverts coloured like the 
back, the remainder grey very finely waved with tiny zig-zag lines of black ; the bastard 
wing and primary coverts black; quills black, the primaries with an indistinct narrow 
edging of whity brown to the outer web; the secondaries externally vermiculated with 
grey like the wing-coverts; the three centre tail-feathers on each side shining green, 
tipped with black ; the two centre rectrices entirely green, but the next two more or less 
inclining to black on the inner web ; the four outermost on each side black, narrowly 
lined across with whitish, these cross lines disappearing towards the centre of the tail; 
lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts, as well as the chin and throat, black; fore neck and 
chest shining green like the back; rest of under-surface crimson ; inner lining of quills 
ashy black, with greyish cross vermiculations on the under wing-coverts. 
Total length about 11^; inches ; wing 65 ; tail ()!; culmen f. 
The female, according to Mr. Salvin (l. c.) is “ dark grey; the wings and tail being blacker; 
the three outer tail-feathers narrowly barred across with white; the abdomen tinged 
with rufous, the lower part of the belly and vent crimson ; bill dusky black, the base 
and the lower mandible yellow.” 
Trogon clathrdtus. Salvin, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 75.—Id. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 151.—Id. Ibis, 
1869, p. 316.—Id. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 202.—Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 119.—Scl. 
& Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 
-— calthratus. Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 81. 
This species was first described by Mr. Osbert Salvin in 1866 ; and his remarks as to its affinities are as 
follows:—“ At first sight this very distinct species has the appearance of T. massena of Gould ; but, in 
addition to a very considerable inferiority of size, the barred tail (a characteristic of a very different section 
of the Trogonidse, viz. of that which includes T. puella, Gould) at once shows its complete distinctness. 
It partakes, in fact, to some extent of the characters of both the above-mentioned groups. There are five 
distinct notches on the edges of both upper and lower mandibles; but these are neither so deep nor so 
large as in T. massena .” 
It is an inhabitant of Veragua, the exact localities where it has been obtained by Arce being Santa Fe, 
Santiago de Veragua, Calovevora, and the Cordillera de Tole ; but more recently it has been shown to 
extend to Costa Rica, by Mr. Lawrence. 
