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Cuba,ÏE©éoiiL.
S p e c i f ic C h a r a c t e r .
Trog. capite saturate chalybto-em-uleo ; dorso olisque viridibtis, harum secundariis ad apicem albo
laté unifasciatis, remigibw mgris albofasciat is ; gut ture pectoreque ciñereis ; ventre coccíneo ;
rectrkibm intermedia sex v.iridibns, ad afñcem (pogmus expansis) late emarginatis, reliquis
wl basin viridihts. */* -media nMa tdttraq-ue vtridt notati*, ad aqmtm late albis.
Rostrum sangumetiít* yd nigro mtteUim; peden bnnmci.
Bill blood red in ííív:*y.<! tmxk «i Idack ; whole of the head and ear-coverts deep
fjtemf back and napfm? SsatUooveFt* green; throat and breast light grey ; lower
part of the ttb&SMKt «Skd tail-coverts scarlet; upper part of the wings green, the
secondaries being crossed near their tip with a broad bar of white; primaries black
strongly barred with white ; six middle tail-feathers green, each having the web at the tip
elongated from the stem on each side, forming the end of the feather into a deep scollop;
the three outer feathers on each side green at the base, succeeded by an alternate bar of
white and green, and deeply tipped with white; feet brown.
Total length, lOf inches; bill, 1 ; wing, 6 ; tail, 6f ; . tarsi,
Trogon temnurus. Te*a«n PI, Col. 326.
So oBnttiett scarce is this ;
obtained rehab*: to its biston
aware, has «»ever :y»t been dei
the most northern locality fr
some enterprising hMzti -sfet
us some information respect*:
who states that specimens fUr
feet skin in the possession at
Upon looking at the mark*
the same part of several of th
attenuated hill, are features
of affinity.
rtiuittiv species hi the collections of Europe. st*d w> little information has been
!, that its habiii. and manners are unknown. The female, as far as I am
icribed or eve« seen hi my ¡U native habitat, Cuba, is I believe
nm which my of its race has been received, and it is to be hoped that ere Jong
wiM direct ?.us attention to the country of which this bird is a native, and afford
ig it» economy. It was first figured in the Planches Coloriées of M. Temminck,
of the collections of Leyden, Brussels, and Paris : these, with an imper-
d*‘ Zoological Society, are, I believe, aU the examples of this bird in Europe.
*8* of the wing, we cannot fail to be struck with their resemblance to those on
a Woodpeckers ; the peculiar termination of the tail also, together with its more
conspicuous, yet these must be considered as relations of analogy and not