TROGON VARIEGATUS, s P ix. 
Purple-breasted Trogon. 
Specific Character. 
Viridis; capite summo et pectore superiore purpureis, fronte nigricante; tectricibm alarum el 
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brunneis, extiis albido limbatis; rectricib 
versus apicem late nigro et albo transfasciatis; corpore reliquo subtiis saturate coccineo ; 
tibiis nigris. 
Irides saturate brunnece; rostrum flavicanti-album; pedes ccerulescenti-cinerei. 
, caudd brunneo tinctd ; alarum tectricibus albo fasciatis ; pectore infe- 
riore albo; rectricibus tribus externis utrinque extiis albis nigro fasciatis. 
Male.— Bill yellowish white; head and chest metallic purple merging into black on the 
forehead; ears, throat, back, and upper tail-coverts green ; wing-coverts and secondaries 
minutely waved with zig-zag markings of black and white ; two centre tail-feathers 
steel-green, tipped with black, the two next on each side black, with their outer edges 
green ; the three outer feathers on each side black at the base and barred with white and 
black, ending in a square mark of white; the whole of the under surface deep scarlet, 
thighs black ; tarsi bluish grey ; irides very dark brown. 
Female. — Head, chest, and upper surface of body dark sooty-grey, the wing-coverts distinctly 
barred with white ; upper part of the abdomen white, merging into scarlet on the belly 
and under tail-coverts ; tail deep sooty-grey with a tinge of brown, the three outer 
feathers barred with black on their outer edges. 
Total length 9 inches ; wing 4 ; tail 5 ; tarsi §. 
Trogon mriegatm. Spix, At. Bras. i. p. 49, taf. 38 A.— Gould, Monogr. Trogon. ed. 1, pi. 5. 
_Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 83.—Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 104. 
- puppuratus. Swains. An. in Menag. p. 330. 
Trogonurus variegatus. Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 14. 
-— purpuratus. Bp. l.c. p. 14. 
Hapalophorus variegatus. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 199. 
This species has an extensive range over a large portion of the empire of Brazil, though it is doubtless 
found in the wooded rather than the open campos of that vast area. It is somewhat remarkable that Prince 
Maximilian von Neuwied makes no mention of it in his well-known works, especially as it seems to be by 
no means uncommon in the vicinity of Bahia, which was one of his chief collecting-grounds. Here it was 
that Swainson obtained the specimens he subsequently described as Trogon purpuratus , the types of which 
are still preserved in the museum of the University of Cambridge; and from the same district skins are sent 
in some numbers in the vast collections of bird-skins so constantly forwarded to Europe. 
Though common in the province of Bahia, it may he doubted if Trogon variegatus extends its range into 
the more southern provinces of Brazil; but it certainly spreads over the central and western districts, as well 
as throughout the valley of the Amazons. Natterer, to whom alone we are indebted for any knowledge of 
the birds of the distant Brazilian province of Matogrosso, found it both at Cuyaba, Villa Maria, and Mato- 
grosso, and then, after journeying down the river Madeira, he again met with it at Barra do Rio Negro, and 
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subsequently at Cajutuba, near Para. Mr. E. Bartlett secured specimens during his visit to the Upper 
