G<ü)N
SÎDomingo Irogon.
TROGON ROS EIGASTER, Vieill.
Rosy-vented Trog’on.
“ T. supra i ?rich-aitrem : g*M, jugulo, pectorcque griseo-viridibus ; corpore subtus rosaceo ; rec-
tricibm intermediis ceertdeis ; lateribm extus et apice albis ; rostro pedibusqtte Jla vis.”
“ Crown of the head, neck, cheeks, mantle and upper tail-coverts brilliant aqua-marine green ;
throat, forepart of the neck and chest pearly grey, changing into aqua-marine green ;
under surface ro*\ red ; middle tail-feathers changeable bluish green ; lateral feathers
white on their e*trrk»r webs and tips ; wrag-coverifinely rayed with greenish black and
w hite ; quills dtorwrtfH' barred with Madk mad white. bill and feet yellow.
Couroucou à ventre rouge 4- ifcmfüfÿ»;, Huff., Hist. Nat. desOis.
!f Tj> Couroucou à caleçon roog iiwrawoo Damoiseau, Le Vaill., Hist. Nat. des Couroucou
», pi 13.”
Le Courottcou Damoiseau, T. rvseigaster, Vieill., Tab. Ency. et Méth., troisième partie, p. 1359-
This species is so extremely rare that I have never been able to see a specimen in any collection, nor to learn
anything respecting i t ; but as I am perfectly satisfied of its being a good species, rather than omit it I have
copied the figure published by Le Vailknt in bis Hist. Nat. des Couroucous; and also the short account he
I bus there given of it.
“ This Kpecies comes from S«. Domingo. ;;v;d is alluded to by Buffo», who seems to have considered it a
mere local variety o f tt**> ikuuwrneu 4 v-• rmge <ie kt Guyam. But I think that a comparison of our
figure o f this species * ib e x alluded to in its adult, a» well as its young state, will convince
any one o f Buffbns assidit' W« tb» respect.
“ I am not mwe whether the imtif iduai #!>«* &mm *4 m* wfcxds-WJ he make or female; I know,
however, for certain tb»i it is an adult, It ■:?. «wp**»»* • ¡Mai M - Chevalier Ldebvre Deshayes, who has
given so long an account of this spec«*», «fasohi fesw. -4«5 Htf&fag upon the differences of the sexes,—a kind
of informi.tion in my opinion which would b u t b rw instructive than what he tells us, when he says,
that this bird with its beak reduce# to powder sound wood when it cannot find worm-eaten wood to deposit
its eggs in, which certainly seems like an impossibility. This species is very rare in collections, for I
lav* 'v-iiy seen, in addition to the specimen in my own collection, two others in the collections of the late
-.vbW Aubry and Dr Maudnit. It has never been in the collection of the Paris Museum, although Buffon is
c site l orre** >b saving that he received a figure and description of it.”
In the *' Tait&at! bspvyolopdiqi«',” above-quoted, M. Vieillot states that it is found in Mexico, but from my
O'Wi r.viCiVv.fe'.i,;4- of du.i group I aw of opiuion that he is mistaken on this point, and that he has confounded
it.' with ft 4 = that country. In its affinities it is most nearly allied to the Trog. temnurus;
I tlie marking of iW * i tu «w*d otlvr particulars being very similar in both species.
I At Saint Domingo ■.»; oral ttttuap a applied to i t ; in some of the provinces it is called Cakfttn rouge, in
1 others Dame, or Den&istik Anglaise; and also Pie de Montagues, from its continually residing among the
mountains.