Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 2 / or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals

by William Swainson

Mexican Trogon. Male.

Tribe Fissirostres. Family Trogonidæ.

Sub-family Trogoninæ. (G. Trogon. Auct.)

Generic Character. See Lesson Man. 2 p. 139.

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Specific Character.

Above golden green, beneath crimson; tail black; the three outer feathers banded with white on their outer web only; inner webs with an oblique white stripe along their shafts; the inner edge spotted with white. Male.

Trogon Mexicanus, female. See Swains. in Phil. Mag. June 1827.

Mus. Dom. Taylor.