TROGON AT III COLL IS, VieiUot. 
Black-throated Trog’on. 
Specific Character. 
Trog. vertice, dorso pectoreque summo viridibus; tectricibus alarum et secundariis extus nigris 
cinereo vermiculatis; primariis extus albido limbatis; regione parotica guttureque nigris; 
torque pectorali albo indistincto; rectricibus duabus intermediis cuprescenti-viridibus, duabus 
proximis nigris externe viridibus, reliquis nigris albo late terminatis albo et nigro trans- 
fasciatis. 
Foem. Capite, dorso, gutture et rectricibus sex intermediis brunneis, his nigro terminatis; 
rectricibus reliquis obsoletius fasciatis; ventre aurantiaco sordidiore. 
Rostrum flavum, vix olivascens. 
Adult male. —Beak yellow, clouded with olive; throat and ear-coverts black; chest, top of 
head, and entire upper surface green; two centre tail-feathers green, with slight bronzy 
reflections, the two next on each side black, with their extreme outer edges of the same 
green as the two middle ones, the tips of all being black, the three outer ones on each 
side black, tipped with white, and regularly barred on the outer web with black and white 
as well as towards the tip of the inner one; wing-coverts and secondaries black, finely and 
delicately freckled with grey; primaries black, with a narrow external edging of white; 
under surface fine orange, separated from the throat by an indistinct pectoral band of 
white; feet brown. 
Female.— Head, throat, upper surface, and six middle tail-feathers brown, the latter slightly 
tipped with black, the remaining tail-feathers as in the male, hut not so regularly barred; 
the wing-coverts freckled with brown on a black ground; the primaries black, margined 
on the outer edges with white; under surface orange, but not so pure as in the male. 
Total length about 9 or 10 inches; wing 44; tail 6. 
Yellow-bellied Green Cuckoo. Edwards, Gleanings Nat. Hist. pi. 331. 
Couroucou a queue rousse de Cayenne. Buff. PI. Enl. 736. 
- orange. Levaill. H. Nat. Couroucous, p. 14, pi. 7, 8, 9. 
Trogon rufus. Gm. S. N. i. p. 404. 
- atricollis. Vieifl. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. viii. p. 318.—Id. Gal. des Ois. i. pi. 31.— 
Gould, Monogr. Trogon. pi. 8.—Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 83.—Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. 
Av. Neotr. p. 104. 
- viridis. Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 50 [nee Linn.). 
Trogonurus lepturus. Swains. An. in Menag. p. 331. 
Trogon chrysochlorus. Natt. & Pelz. Sitz. Akad. Wien, xx. p. 49. Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 20. 
- scalaris. Licht. in Mus. Berol. (fide Cabanis). 
Pothinus atricollis. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 180. 
“There can be little doubt,” says Mr. Salvin, “that the figures of the old authors, Edwards, Buffon, and 
Levaillant, quoted above, all apply to this bird, and also that a strict application of the law of priority points 
to the exceedingly inappropriate title of Trogoji rufus, bestowed upon it by Gmelin, as the name this bird 
ought to bear. 
