TROGON MACRURUS, Gould. 
Long-tailed Trogon. 
Specific Character. 
Capite corpore supra pectoreque splendide aurato-viridibus, uropygio ccerulescente; Ions, regione 
paroticd et gutture nigris; alls nigris, tectricibus lineis delicatis cinereis undatim vermi - 
culatis; primaries extks alba marginal; torque pectorali albo; corpore subtiis intense 
coccineo; caudd nigrd, rectricibus duabus intermediis splendide virescenti-purpureis nee non 
utrisque proximis duabus ad marginem externum, reliquis guttulis cinereis adspersis; rostro 
flavo ; pedibus plumbeis. 
Head, and all the upper surface, as well as the chest, rich golden green, tinged with blue on 
the rump; lores, ear-coverts, and throat black, gradually passing into golden green; 
wings black, with the centre finely striated with irregular wavy lines of greyish white, 
and the primaries margined externally with white; across the breast a band of white, 
beyond which all the under surface is of a rich fiery scarlet; tail black, the two centre 
feathers and the external webs of the two next on each side glossed with greenish purple, 
the remainder powdered with very fine specks of greyish white; bill yellow; feet lead- 
colour. 
Total length, 13 inches ; bill l \; wing 6§; tail 8 ; tarsi 
Trogon macroura. Gould, Monogr. 1 rogon. ed. 1, pi. 17. 
- macrurus. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 70.—Id. Hand-1. B. i. p. 81. Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. 
Av. Neotr. p. 104. 
Curucujus macrurus. Bp. Consp. Vol. Zygod. p. 14. 
Troctes macrurus. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 203. 
Judging from the very few instances in which Trogon macrurus has been met with by collectors since the 
species was first brought under notice in the first edition of the ‘ Monograph, it would appear that the bird 
is very local, and ranges over a very limited area. Indeed I doubt whether it is to be found beyond the 
district included between the lower region of the river Magdalena and the Isthmus of Panama as far as the 
base of the mountainous region of Veragua. M’Leannan obtained specimens, forwarded both to Mr. 
Lawrence and to Messrs. Salvin and Godman, on the Panama-Railway line. The late Mr. Cassin says, 
in his account of the birds obtained during Lieut. Michler’s survey of the Isthmus of Darien, that amongst 
some young birds he attributed to T. massena , obtained on the river Fernando and the delta of the Atrato, 
was one that might be the young of this species. 
In the Museum Heineanum are two birds ascribed to T. macrurus, one young and one female, both 
of which are said to have come from Cartagena. Beyond these meagre facts nothing is known of 
this bird. 
The accompanying Plate represents an old and a young bird, of the size of life. 
