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Giant Troéon.
TROGON GIGA S , VieiU.
Giant Trognon.
?! Suprà JUxo-scente-viridis, nitens; pectore, cor pore subtus albis; rostro Jlavo ; pedibus
juscis."
u Hf'iisi ? h goal, iifmvky upper suri'aee. ^iapttiarie*», ramp and upper tail-coverts shining golden
$$4 vmdor wurfacv wHiïe : tsd' golden green aboyé,, whitish grey beneath j
^ r- ' •/-$ ï f- ■ t&ftté-'Mwm with blackish green and white, the remainder.of the
i dack ; bill ydfeftv : feet brown.”
” jjc drathrf ConroMou à ventre blanc de Java, ou le Couroucou géant, Le Vaill. Hist. Nat. des
Courou cous, P l. 12/’
" Zrf? Cotiroitcou géant, T. Gigas, Vieill. 2nd Edit. duNouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. tom. 8. p. 315.”
Vieill. Tab. Ency. et Méth. troisième partie, p. 1359.
f t**< T r j*.r.ig**»cr, m oxtmndy rare that I have never seen an example in any of the
I «,»«{. M Tgnimh'rk k;forros me that he has a specimen as stated by Le
l\ A'fhuti. hv'e ¿a# the Leyden* roKeetia» fe/;: •>. pme*# «ft»cce*M-ihle, he could not favour me with the
kw of it < t 'Jmvfove. it %■: vr 1* :-j:- Va^uit1« %an\ with a slight alteration as to position,
knd snhjoifi -■« <*8 that he Has said respeet;:«? k
“ This h s is ? * # .Ifiiiifti! species is not only new, ’!>><: the largest of its geaus. It is 18 inches long from
the top of the Head to ¿he extremity of the tail- Its body i* twicefthe size of the largest American species.
“ I have. Ofldy ***!& '*&»*■€ specimens of this fine species; one in the collection of M. Carbintns at the Hague,
a g«K)$nd »*> the possession of M. Gevers, and another in the large and splendid collection, of
my tv-- v-.- M. 'Ff-ifti-ix.,,- r<t Amsterdam. This individual, from which our figure was taken, was sent along
*»th m*" •-vr birds Ihm- -Java. I have seen a fourth specimen in the Paris Museum; but as it was in an
it has ttgft aft yet been placed in the gallery.” '