TROGON BEHNI. 
Belin’s Trogon. 
Specific Character. 
Trog. supra splendide aurato-viridis, cupreo nitens; uropygio, supracaudalibus et rectricibus 
duabus mediis splendide viridibus, his nigro apicaliter fasciatis ; duabus proximis nigris extiis 
splendide viridibus, reliquis nigris albo terminatis et albo transversim fasciatis; alis nigris, 
tectricibus alarum minimis dorso concoloribus, reliquis autem et secundariis externe cinereis 
minutissime nigro fimbriatis, primariis anguste albido limbatis; pileo cum cervice et pectore 
superiore cyanescenti-viridibus, his cupreo nitentibus; froute, loris et facie laterali cum 
gutture toto nigris; torque pectorali albo distincto; corpore reliquo subtiis coccineo, hypo- 
cliondriis cinereis; tibiis nigris; subalaribus et ala subtiis cinerascenti-nigris, illis interioribus 
et rectricibus versus basin pogonii interni albis. 
Adult male .—Crown of head, hind neck, and breast shining bluish green, with a golden 
gloss on the sides of the neck and breast, the lores, sides of face, and throat black; across 
the upper breast a white band; the remainder of the underparts crimson, the sides of the 
body grey; the thigh-feathers black; entire back and scapulars bright coppery green, 
with a golden gloss, shading off into metallic grass-green on the rump and upper tail- 
coverts ; the smaller wing-coverts golden green like the back, the rest, as well as the outer 
web of the secondaries, grey, most finely and delicately freckled with blackish vermicu- 
lations, the remainder of the wing black, the primaries with a narrow external edging of 
white; two centre tail-feathers green, with a coppery gloss, and having a tolerably broad 
terminal band of black; the next two feathers black, with only the outer web coppery 
green; the rest black, broadly tipped with white, and distinctly banded across with white, 
the number of white bars increasing more on the outer feathers; under wing-coverts and 
inner lining of wing greyish black, the innermost of the former and the inner base of the 
quills white. 
Total length 9 inches ; culmen §; wing 4§; tail 5 ; tarsus l 
Trogon behni. Gould, MSS. 
When Professor Behn, of Kiel, returned from America, he passed through London and showed me a 
Trogon, which he kindly left with me as a new and undescribed species. I saw at once that it was a striking 
bird and was remarkable for some red feathers in its crown. These, however, proved to have been 
surreptitiously added, as might have been expected; for nature would never have acted so inharmoniouslyas 
to have decorated anyone of these green Trogons, all of them so perfectly of one type, with such an anomaly 
as a red crown ! But, on mature consideration, I came to the conclusion that the species was distinct on 
other grounds; and I had a sketch of it prepared, and proposed to name the species after the discoverer: 
this promise I now fulfil. 
During the long interval that has elapsed since the Plate was drawn, two specimens have come under my 
notice—one brought by Mr. Brydges from Bolivia, the other sent from Peru by Mr. Whitely. The latter 
bird is in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman, and has much of the appearance of an old Trogon 
mriegatus, being considered by Mr. Salvin to belong to that species. The Bolivian bird, however, is 
different, in the head and chest being green and not blue, while the back is of the richest bronzy or coppery 
green. As there is some doubt as to the Peruvian specimen, I wish it to be understood that the Bolivian 
bird, is the typical Trogon behni . This is the bird described in the present ‘ Monograph and the illustra¬ 
tion here given has been prepared from the same specimen. 
The principal figure in the Plate is of the size of life. I regret that, by a misprint, the title has been 
rendered Trogon behmi instead of T. behni. 
