YELLOWBELLIED
C.
D escription.
Place.
Trogon viridls, Lin. Syji. L p. 167. N° 3.
Le Couroucou verd de Cayenne, Brif. orn. iv. 168. No. 2. pi. 17, f. I,
Le Couroucou a ventre jaune, Buf. oif. vi. 391.
Couroucou de Cayenne, Pl.enl. 195.
Yellow-bellied green Cuckow, Einu. pi. 331.
T ENGTH eleven inches and a half. Bill pale afh-colour,
fcarcely an inch in length: the upper part of the head is
violet, with a mixture of green-gold: the fides of the head and
throat are black : the upper parts of the body green gold, palling
forwards to form a band of the fame colour on the bread : all beneath
this is yellow-orange: the thighs are nearly black : the
under wing coverts the fame, margined with white : the upper
wing coverts and fcapulars black: quills black brown s the outer
edges, from the bafe to the middle, white, from this to the end,
fpotted with white : the tail is cuneiform ; the two middle feathers
exceed the outer ones by near two Inches, and are blackilh,
glofled with green-gold; the fecond and third, on each fide, the
fame, but the edges only are green-gold; the third has a black
tip ■, the fourth is blackilh alfo, indented with white on the outer
edge at the tip j and the two outer ones, half way from the bale,
blackilh, the reft white; and thefe two colours indented into each
other, as in the former : the legs are feathered to the toes,
with blackilh feathers : the toes and claws are brown alh.
Inhabits Cayenne.
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Trogon
Trogon viridls, Lin. Syji. i. p. 167. N° 3. 0 .
Le Couroucou verd à ventre blanc de Cayenne, Brif. orn. iv. p. 170. N” 3.
Buf.oif.Mi. p .29 3 * .
V a r . A .
WHITE-
BELLItD
C . .
r r ’H I S b ird is a tr ifle fm a lle r than th e fo rm e r , and d iffe rs o n ly
in h a v in g th e b e l ly w h i t e , in fte ad o f y e l lo w : th e end h a l f
o f th e ta il fea th e rs is w h ite , fep a ra ted o b liq u e ly , b u t in d en ted
w i th th e o th e r c o lo u r , as in th e la ft.
D e scr ip t io n ,
Trogon ftrigilatus, Lin. Syji. i. p. 167. N° 1.
Le Couroucou cendré de Cayenne, Brif. orn. iv. p. 165. pi. 16. f. Ï.
Couroucou de la Guiane, PI. eni. 765.— Buf, of. vi. p. 293.
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CINEREOUS
C.
e -r -AH IS is fom ew h a t b ig g e r than a B la c k b i r d . L e n g t h tw e lv e
in che s and a h a lf. T h e b i l l is o n e in ch lo n g , and o f a d e ep
a lh - c o lo u r : th e g en e ra l c o lo u r o f th e b o d y is v e r y d e ep alh ; f t i l l
d e ep e r on th e th ig h s and le g s : th e b e l ly and u n d e r ta il co v e r ts
o f a fin e o r a n g e y e l l o w : fc a p u la r s , u p p e r w in g c o v e r t s , and th e
g r e a te r 'o n é s n e x t th e b o d y , b la c k ilh , tra n fv e r fe ly f t r ia te d w i th
nar row w h it ilh lin e s ; th o fe fa r th e ft from the' b o d y p la in : u n d e r
w in g co v e r ts d e ep alh , e d g e d w i th w h ite : g re a te r q u i l ls b la c k ilh ;
th e fiv e fir ft h a v e w h ite e d g e s fo r tw o - th ird s o f th e le n g th ; th e
fecond àr ies b la c k i lh , m a rk e d w i th w h ite o n ‘the o u te r e d g e , b u t
w h ite a t th e bafe : ta il b la c k ilh j th e f ix m id d le fe a th e rs fix
* Buffim mentions one of thefe with a whitilh belly, which had a ftrong citron
tinge in many places ; which would naturally load one to think, that this was a
mere variety’Of the yellow* bellied one ; fee Hift. des oîf. vi. p. 294.
3 R la ch e s
D escription-.
inches