TROGON COLLARIS, rum. 
Collared Trog*on. 
Specific Character. 
Supra aurato-viridis ; rectricibus duabus intermediis aurato-viridibus nigro terminatis, duabus 
proximis nigris extus aurato-viridibus, reliquis nigro alboque transfasciatis; tectricibus alarum 
minimis dorso concoloribus, reliquis et secundariis jlexuose nigro alboque vermiculatis; 
primariis nigris extiis albo limbatis; loris, regioneparotica guldque nigris; gutture et pectore 
superiore aurato-viridibus ; torque pectorali albo ; corpore reliquo subtus coccineo. 
Irides saturate brunneee ; rostrum flavicanti-aurantiacum ; pedes saturate cinerei. 
Fcem. Brunnea; torque pectorali albo; corpore reliquo subtus coccineo; tectricibus alarum 
brunneis nigro vermiculatis; rectricibus tribus utrinque extimis nigro lineolatis et punctatis 
alboque terminatis. 
Rostrum brunnescenti-aurantiacum. 
Adult Male. —Crown of the head and whole of the upper surface rich golden green; throat 
and ear-coverts black; two middle tail-feathers golden green, the two next on each side 
golden green on their outer edge, the inner webs black, and the whole six tipped with 
black; the three outer feathers on each side strongly barred with black and white ; 
primaries black with their outer edges white ; secondaries and wing-coverts transversely 
waved with zig-zag lines of black and white; a semilunar collar of white separates the 
golden green of the chest from the abdomen, which, with the under tail-coverts, is 
scarlet; bill rich yellowish orange ; irides dark brown ; feet dark grey. 
Female. —Head, chest, and upper surface of body brown ; the two middle tail-feathers rich 
chestnut-brown, the two next on each side chestnut-brown on their outer webs and black 
on the inner, the three lateral feathers on each side freckled with black and tipped with 
white ; a band of white separates the brown of the chest from the abdomen, which is 
scarlet as in the male; bill brownish orange. 
Total length 9f inches ; bill §; wing 4|; tail 5 \; tarsi §. 
Le Couroucou rosalba. Levaill. H. N. Couroucous, pi. 6. 
Trogon collaris. Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. viii. p. 320.—Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. 1, t. 5. 
Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 82.—Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 104. 
-- castaneus. Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 48, t. 37 (fem.). 
- auratus. Swains. An. in Menag. p. 329. 
«- rosalba, Cuv.” Hartl. Verz. Mus. Brem. p. 12. 
Trogonurus collaris. Bp. Consp. Yol. Zyg. p. 14. 
Trogon eytoni. Fraser, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 368. 
- elegans. Licht. in Mus. Berol. [fide Cabanis). 
- eryt/irinus. Licht. in Mus. Berol. [fide Cabanis). 
- curucui , Linn. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 177. 
- exoptatus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 179. 
- virginalis, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 173. 
This species, by some authors supposed to be the Trogon curucui of Linnaeus (but doubtfully so, as it 
appears to me), was first certainly named by Vieillot in 1817, and Levaillant’s figure of his “ Couroucou 
