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resulting from them. Most of those given in this article | and no part of an animal, not even its bones and skin were executed in his lathe by means of Ibbetson's geometric chuck, a contrivance the results of which are well known to turners, but which have never been exhibited, as far as we know, in any article professing to give a mathematical classification of them.

The preceding is the curve called the trisectrix in the article TRISECTION: it is a wood-cut made in the usual way from a drawing made in the lathe; all the rest are

cut in the lathe.

TROCHOI'DEA. [TROCHIDE.] The genera referred to the title Trochoïdea will be more particularly treated of in the article TURBINIDE.

TROCHUS. [TROCHIDE.] TROEZEN (Tooýv or Toohvn), one of the most ancient Greek cities in Argolis. It was said to have been built by Orus, whom Pausanias (ii. 30, 6) considers to have been an Egyptian, but it derived its name from Troezen, one of the sons of Pelops, for before his time its name is said to have been Posidonia. It was situated on the eastern coast of Argolis, fifteen stadia from the sea. The harbour, at the entrance of which lay the island of Calauria, was called Pogon (a beard), whence the Roman proverb Troezenem navigare,' to wear a false beard. The town itself lay on a considerable eminence between the sea and the river Chrysorrhoos. Ruins of it are still extant in and about the modern village of Tamala.

Troezen was a sovereign city which had a considerable territory and several small townships. Its wealth and power may be estimated from the fact that in the Persian invasion of Greece the Troezenians joined their countrymen with an army of 1000 men and five ships of war. Their generous conduct towards the Athenian women, children, and slaves who quitted Attica when Xerxes invaded it, reflects honour upon the character of the Troezenians. Their town continued to be of some importance even as late as the time of Strabo, and Pausanias has left us a description of its numerous temples and other public buildings, most of which were filled with costly works of art. (Paus., ii. 31, &c.)

were despised as food. They were either naked or were only covered with the skins of animals, and the women tattooed their bodies, and wore necklaces of shells. These general features, and still more the detailed account of their life in Strabo, show that the Troglodyta were people in the lowest stage of civilization.

Aristotle makes the Troglodyte pygmies, and places them in the marshes whence the Nile flowed, in which locality they with their little horses made war against the cranes.

Cluverius states that the Arabian Troglodytæ possessed the whole left side of the Arabian Gulf, whence the region itself was called Troglodytica. In the fourth section of the fifth chapter of the sixth book, in which he treats of the 'Deserts of Libya, the Troglodytæ and Garamantes,' he places the Troglodyte beyond the Libyan Deserts, in the locality called, when he wrote, the Desert Berdoa; and he says that the Black Mountain (Mons Ater, so called from its sun-burnt appearance) protected the Troglodyte from the south wind; and that beyond them lay the Garamantes, called, when he wrote, the kingdom of 'Borno.' [BORNOU?]

The accounts of the almost mere animal life of the Boshiesmen,' in South Africa, by Thunberg and others. correspond in some particulars with those related of the Troglodyte.

But there was also in Moesia a nation called Treglodyte. Cluverius describes the Peucesta and the Trg lodyte as inhabiting the lower part of Moesia. (Intra!, Geog., iv. 16 and 17.) Troglodyta are mentioned in Mauritania (Strab., xvii., p. 828); and on the northern side of the Caucasus. This tribe was well acquainted with the cultivation of corn. (Strab., xi., p. 506.)

The earliest extant account of Troglodyte is by Agathar
chides of Cnidos. (Photius, Bibliotheca, c. 250.)
TROGLODYTES. [WRENS.]
TROGLODYTINE. [WRENS.]
TROGON. [TROGONIDE.]

TROGO'NIDÆ, a family of INSESSORES, or Perching
birds, remarkable for the beauty of their plumage.
Brisson's thirteenth order of birds consists of those which
have four toes, two before and two behind. The order is
divided into four sections: 1, those with a straight bil.
comprising the Wryneck, the Woodpecker, and the Jaca
mars; 2, those with the bill slightly curved, embracing the
Barbets and the Cuckoos; 3, those with a short and hooked
bill, including the Trogons (Couroucou), the Bout de petu
[CROTOPHAGA], and the Parrots; 4, the Toucans.
Linnæus, in his last edition of the Systema Nature,

TROGLODYTE (Towyλodirai). [APES, vol. ii., p. 147.] Under the term Troglodyte the antients appear to have comprised more than one race of men. The principal race, that referred to by Pliny (Nat. Hist., v. 8) as excavating caves for habitations, feeding on serpents, and expressing their ideas by inarticulate sounds, stridor, non vox,' is placed among the Ethiopians. Again, in the twenty-ninth chapter of the sixth book, treating of the nations near the Red Sea, we find the Troglodytici and the Ethiopici. The annotator, in the Variorum Pliny (Lugd. Batav., Rotter-placed the genus Trogon in his order Pica, between Par dami, 1669, 8vo.) states in a note to the chapter last quoted, that a nation of Abyssinians near the Red Sea then went by the name of Troglodyte, and that the kingdom was called Barnagas by the natives.

These African Troglodytæ, according to Aristotle and other antient writers who have treated on the subject, lived in caves, and buried their dead in a rather singular manner. They tied the corpse neck and heels together, hung it up, pelted it with stones amid shouts of laughter, and, finally, after having covered it with a heap of stones and placed a horn upon the heap, departed. They made wars for food, and strangled weak and worn out individuals of their own nation with an ox's tail. This mode of disposing of such members of the community was considered a benefit, and the sick were treated in the same manner; for they held it to be the greatest of evils that he who could no longer do anything worthy of life should continue to love it. They hissed rather than spoke, and lived on the flesh of serpents, some of which were found in their country twenty cubits in length, but were so swift that they were able to run down the wild beasts which they hunted. In their territory some placed the Fountain of the Sun, which was tepid in the morning, cold at noon, became warm in the evening, and at midnight poured forth streams of the hottest

water.

A general description of the mode of living and of the habitations of the Troglodyte on the Arabian Gulf (the Red Sea) is given in Strabo (xvi., p. 775, &c.). Their principal occupation was the breeding of cattle, and the highest power was in the hands of a number of chiefs. The men had wives and children in common, with the exception of the chiefs, who had wives belonging to them exclusively. They lived principally upon animal food

disea and Bucco, in the body of the work; but, in his Cha racteres Avium, at the commencement of the birds, where he divides the Pica into three sections (1, those with walking feet; 2, those with scansorial feet; and 3, the with gressorial feet), he places Trogon in the second settion, between Ramphastos and Psittacus. Latham also places it in the same second section, between Crotophage and the Barbets.

Lacépède makes the second order of his great division Grimpeurs, or Climbing-birds, consist of those with a dentilated bill. At the head of this order he places the To cans, and, between them and the Touracos, the Trogons.

In Duméril's arrangement the Trogons appear in the second family (Levirostres or Cenorhamphes) of his Climbing-birds, between the Plantain-eaters and the Touracos.

The Serrati, or Saw-bills, constitute the second family of Illiger's order Scansores, and in that family Trogin stands between Corythair and Musophaga.

Cuvier, in his last edition of the Règne Animal, places the Couroucous (Trogon, Linn.) between the Barbel (Bucco, Linn.) and the Anis (Crotophaga, Linn.). The subgenus Tumatia, among the Barbets, immediately precedes the Trogons. These with other scansorial gener form Cuvier's third order, Grimpeurs.

The Trogons stand as the first genus of the Barbets (Barbus), the fifth family of M. Vieillot's first tribe, Zygoda tyli, of his second order, Sylvicole.

In M. Temminck's fifth order, Zygodactyli, the Trogons are placed between Crotophaga and Tamatia.

In the method proposed by M. de Blainville in 1815 and 1821, and developed by M. Lherminier in 1827, Trogte stands in the first subclass (Normal Birds), between Cuculus and Galgulus.

The Pogonorhynques, or Beardy-bills, are the second family of M. Latreille's third order, Grimpeurs, and in this family Couroucou stands between Barbican (Pogonias) and Monassa.

The families comprised in the order Scansores of Mr. Vigors are Ramphastide, Psittacidae, Picide, Certhiade, and Cuculide; and he observes that the immediate connection of Ramphastos with the succeeding group, Psittacide, is not so evident. These families, he remarks, are placed next to each other by all systematic writers; and he says that he decidedly concurs in the general views which bring them into neighbouring groups. But,' he adds, at present I am acquainted with no forms which intimately connect them, and soften down the important difference observable in the bills and tongues of these birds. This is one of the greatest chasms which interfere with the continuity of our chain of affinities. I might indeed hazard some suggestions as to the mode in which this difficulty may be solved; but I wish to illustrate the general principles of this inquiry by such facts as are acknowledged, and such inferences as are indisputable, without treading on the unstable ground of conjecture.' At the word 'suggestions' in the paragraph above quoted is a reference to the following note: I might particularly mention the Trogon, Linn., as a bird, whose bill, serrated, but, at the same time short and hooked, seems to give it a similitude to each of these groups. We know but little of this genus, although it abounds in the Old and New World, and that little is altogether insufficient to afford us any information as to its actual affinities.' (On the Natural Affinities that connect the Orders and Families of Birds, in Linnean Transactions.)

M. Lesson, in his Table Méthodique, makes the Trogonées the fifth family of his fifth tribe (Syndactyles) of his second order (Passereaux). The Trogonées are placed between the Bucconées and the Psittacidées. (Manuel & Ornithologie.)

Mr. Swainson acknowledges that the Trogonidæ, or Trogons, are, in one sense, such an isolated group, that zoologists have been much perplexed in what natural amily to arrange them; and he remarks that Cuvier, in placing them near to the Puff-Birds (Tamatia), seems to have had some perception of what Mr. Swainson believes to be their true station in nature, although both these groups find a place among his Climbing-birds (Grimpeurs). Mr. Vigors, he observes, in his Natural Arrangement,' first placed the genus Trogon between Crotophaga and Corythaix with a mark of doubt, but subsequently arranged them near the Parrots. The Trogons,' says Mr. Swainson in continuation, are abundant in South America; and are, perhaps, one of the most extraordinary genera found in that continent. They are not climbing-birds, nor are they in the least organized for that purpose: they live in the deepest and most gloomy shades during day, when they sit almost motionless on a dead branch: during the morning and evening they are more active; at these times they go into the open parts of the forest, and, taking a shady station, dart upon winged insects, particularly hard-coated beetles; at other times they feed upon fruits, especially on the rich purple berries of the different Melastoma (Melastomata), at which they invariably dart precisely the same as if they were insects capable of getting away! The singular account of these birds given by our hunters first awakened our attention to them in their native regions, and these results have since been fully confirmed by the observations made on those species peculiar to Demerara by Mr. Waterton, a well known and observing field-naturalist. Finally, the Trogons, like the Goatsuckers, have remarkably thin skins; like them, they 'feed upon the wing; the feet of both are so short and feeble, as scarcely to be of any other use than to rest the body; the bill in both is remarkably short; the plumage in both is soft and loose; both have the mouth defended by strong bristles; and both are most active during twilight. Here then is the point, if not of absolute junction, at least of the strongest affinity yet discovered between the Caprimulgida and the Trogonidae; and it is thus, as we conceive, that the circle of the Fissirostres is formed. We began with the Goatsuckers; and, after tracing their connection with the Swallows, the Swallows with the Bee-eaters, and the Bee-eaters with the Kingfishers, we finally return to the point whence we started.' (Classification of Birds.)

In the Synopsis of the same work the Trogonidae are

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Apaloderma, Sw. Bill as in Trogon, but the dentations almost obsolete. Feet stronger. The two anterior toes cleft to their base. Africa. The tenuirostral type. Examples, Apaloderma Nurina and Apaloderma Reinwardtii.

Temnurus, Sw. Bill as in Trogon. Tail-feathers forked at their tips; the points diverging. South America. Feet -? The fissirostral type.

Example, Temnurus albicollis: but note, Mr. Swainson remarks that neither M. Temminck nor Mr. Gould, to whose monograph Mr. Swainson refers, mentions anything of the form of the feet, and he says that he is therefore doubtful if this is its true situation.

Calurus, Sw. Bill destitute of serratures. Head (typically) with a compressed and elevated crest. Upper tail-covers enormously developed, and hiding the tail. South America. The rasorial type.

Examples, Calurus resplendens and Calurus pavoninus. Under a line, and between the Trogonida and the Caprimulgida, are placed the genera Crypticus, Sw., and Prionites, Ill.; and Mr. Swainson, speaking of Crypticus, remarks that it is by this form, as he suspects, uniting to Lamprotila, that the circles of the Halcyonidæ and Trogonidæ are connected (1837).

Mr. Gould's splendid Monograph of the Trogonidae' was finished in 1838; and in the Introduction' to that work he observes, that those birds, as their general structure and their habits sufficiently indicate, belong to the fissirostral tribe of the Insessores. Greatly insectivorous," says Mr. Gould, "they seize the flitting insect on the wing, which their wide gape enables them to do with facility; while their feeble tarsi and feet are such as to qualify them merely for resting on the branches, as a post of observation whence to mark their prey as it passes, and to which, having given chase, to return. As in all other groups, however, we shall find modifications of the type constituting the ground of generic or subgeneric divisions. . . . If not strictly elegant in form, the Trogons in the brilliancy of their plumage are surpassed only by the TROCHILIDE: their splendour amply compensates for every other defect. Denizens of the intertropical regions of the Old and New World, they shroud their glories in the deep and gloomy recesses of the forest, avoiding the light of day and the observation of man: dazzled by the brightness of the meridional sun, morning and evening twilight is the season of their activity.'

Mr. Gould refers to Mr. Griffith's edition of Cuvier's 'Animal Kingdom' for an account of the habits of the Trogons; and the author of that account notices their long attenuated feathers with disarranged and luxuriant barbs as making them appear more bulky than they really are. The feathers, too, are stated to be so feebly im planted that they fall at the slightest agitation, and the skin is described as being so delicate that it will tear upon the slightest tension.

The Trogons themselves are described as solitary birds, extremely jealous of their freedom, never frequenting inhabited or open tracts, and delighting in the silence of deserts. The interior of the thickest forests,' says the describer, is their chosen abode for the entire year. They are sometimes seen on the summit of trees; but in genera they prefer the centre, where they remain a portion of the day without descending to the ground, or even to the lower

branches. Here they lie in ambush for the insects which | flight, or for taking their prey on the wing, as are the more pass within reach, and seize them with address and dex- closely-plumed species to which the generic name Trogon terity. Their flight is lively, short, vertical, and undu-is now restricted: accordingly Mr. Natterer informed Mr. lating. Though they thus conceal themselves in the thick Gould that the gorgeous birds of the former group tenant foliage, it is not through distrust; for when they are in an the topmost branches of the loftiest forest-trees, clinging open space, they may be approached so nearly as to be beneath them like parrots, and feeding more exclusively struck with a stick. They are rarely heard to utter any on fruits and berries; while, on the other hand, Mr. Gould cries, except during the season of reproduction, and then notices Mr. W. S. MacLeay's statement, that the singular their voice is strong, sonorous, monotonous, and melan- Trogon inhabiting Cuba (the only example of the subgenus choly. They have many cries, from the sound of one of Temnurus), which approximates to the woodpeckers in which their name is derived. All those whose habits are the more lengthened form of the bill, in the rigid characknown nestle in the hollows of wormeaten trees, which ter of the outer tail-feathers, and in the spotting of the they enlarge with their bills so as to form a comfortable wings, approaches those birds also in its habits, giving a and roomy residence. The number of eggs is from two to preference to the holes of trees rather than to the branches, four, and the young are born totally naked, but their fea- from the bark of which it procures the larvæ and various thers begin to start two or three days after their birth. insects which constitute its food. The occupation of the male during incubation consists in watching for the safety of his companion, bringing her food, and amusing her with a song, which, though we should call it insipid, is to her without doubt the expression of sensibility. Some of the Couroucous express the syllable pio, repeated many times in succession with a powerful yet plaintive tone. Their accent almost reminds one of the wailings of a child who has lost its way, and it is thus that they cry to each other amidst the silence of the forests. As soon as the young are able to provide for themselves, they separate from their parents to enjoy that solitude and isolation which appear to constitute the supreme happiness of the species. Their aliments are composed of larvæ, small worms, caterpillars, coleoptera, and berries, which they swallow entire. The male, at various ages, the female, and the young differ in their plumage, which has given rise to the institution of more species than are really in existence.'

The habits of the Old World species are much less known than those of the American Trogons; but from the more robust form of their bill and their wide gape, Mr. Gould is inclined to suspect that they feed even still more exclusively on insects than on fruits: independently however of the greater strength of the bill, the non-serration of the edges of the mandibles, and the half-denuded face, they may, Mr. Gould remarks, at all times be distinguished by the rich brown colouring of the backs of the males, and y the entire absence of bars across the outer tail-feathers, With respect to the brown colouring of the plumage, there are, he adds, it is true, one or two exceptions to the rule, but none to the absence of the barring of the tail-feathers when accompanied by the former character.

The subgenera into which the Trogons are subdivided by Mr. Swainson appear to Mr. Gould perfectly natural; and he adds a synoptical table with the species arranged under those subgenera, retaining however the gener name of Trogon, universally applied to the whole family in the body of his work.

This succinct but eloquent account appears to be, in the main, faithful; and indeed Mr. Gould states that he is enabled in a great measure to confirm it, from the informa- Previous to the commencement of Mr. Gould's monotion which he obtained respecting this group whilst he was graph, the number of described species amounted only to engaged upon his monograph. But Mr. Gould adds a few twenty-two: to these Mr. Gould has added and charac facts in some degree contradictory. His friend Mr. John terised twelve others new to science, among which are Natterer, who had many opportunities of observing these three additional species of the subgenus Calurus, of which birds in a state of nature, informed him that he had seen two only were previously known, and those were conthem, though very rarely, congregating together, and more founded under one name. The total number of species than one species in company; a circumstance which Mr. known when Mr. Gould finished his monograph was thirtyNatterer accounts for on the principle that instinct leads four, twenty-three of which are inhabitants of America them by some migratory movement to abandon one dis- and its islands, ten of the Indian Islands and India, and trict at a certain season of the year in search of another, one of Africa; but he states in his preface that he has where food is more abundant. These migrations, how- reason to believe that many will yet be discovered, both ever, Mr. Gould observes, cannot be extensive, inasmuch in the Old and New World, particularly in those remote as their wings are not adapted for a lengthened flight: be-regions which civilized man has seldom, if ever, visited. sides which, every new district of any great extent presents us, he remarks, with its peculiar species; for example, none of the species inhabiting Mexico have been found in the Brazils, and vice versa.

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Mr. G. R. Gray makes the Trogonidae the fourth family of the tribe Fissirostres, which is the first of his order Paaseres. The Fissirostres are divided by him into subtribes, viz. Fissirostres Nocturne and Fissirostres Diurnæ. The Trogonidae are placed under the second subtribe, between the Todide and the Alcedinida, and consist of the fol lowing

Genera-Priotelus, G. R. Gray (Temnurus,* Sw.); Apaloderma, Sw.; Harpactes, Sw.; Calurus, Sw.; and Trogon, Mæhr.

AMERICAN TROGONS.

With regard to the Geographical Distribution of the Trogons, Mr. Gould says that they appear, on general survey, to be divided between America, including its islands, and the islands of the Indian Archipelago; two or three species only having yet been discovered on the continent of India, and those principally inhabiting the countries bordering the Indian Seas. The great nurseries for these birds in the Old World are, he observes, the islands of Ceylon, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, &c.; while over the whole The remarkable plumage and shy habits of the Trogons continent of Africa only a single species has yet been dis- did not escape the observation of the antient Mexicans, in It is in South America however,' continues whose mythology one of the species, at least (Trogon paMr. Gould, that we find the greatest number of species, voninus), was celebrated. Another species, the Teinitzcan and those of the most exquisite plumage: nor is this all of the Mexicans, Trogon Curucui, Linn., was employed by for it will be further observed that, in accordance with the them, according to Hernandez (c. xliii.), in the fabrication great geographical distribution thus pointed out, there of the figures and pictures (imagines) used on festivals, in exist certain characters common to the species inhabiting war, and in their temples. They were probably kept in each region, which, although not very apparent to the unone of the two houses which formed the Royal Menagerie practised eye, constitute the basis of generic subdivisions, of antient Mexico, one of these houses being appropriated and doubtless have an influence upon their habits and to birds which did not live by prey; the other to birds of manners. Between the American species and those inha-prey, quadrupeds, and reptiles. Three hundred men, acbiting India and Africa, we not only find this broad line cording to Cortes, were employed to take care of these of distinction, but discover moreover that the birds of each birds, besides their physicians, who watched their diseases country are themselves naturally resolvable into certain and applied timely remedies. Of the three hundred attenminor groups, each possessing its peculiar characters, and dants, some procured their food, others distributed it, others each as different in habits as in form.' took care of the eggs at the time of incubation; others, at certain seasons, picked their plumage-for the king not only delighted in the sight of so many species, but was very careful of their feathers for the sake

Mr. Gould further remarks that the beautiful species of the group to which the subgeneric title of Calurus has been applied, distinguished by a redundancy of flowing plumage, are not, as may be expected, so well fitted for

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famous mosaic images and pictures, as well as of the other side black, with white tips; wings black, the whole of works which were made of them.

Examples.-Trogon Mexicanus (Sw.).

Description.-Old Male.-Beak bright yellow; throat and ear-coverts black, gradually blending with the green which covers the chest and the whole of the upper surface; two middle tail-feathers green, with black tips; the two next on each side wholly black; the three outer on each

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which, with the exception of the primaries, is finely dotted with grey; a crescent of white encircles the chest; breast, belly, and under tail-coverts fine scarlet; feet brown. Total length 11 to 12 inches; wing 5; tail 7.

Young Male.-Distinguished from the adult by the grey freckles on the wings being rather stronger, and more inclined to brown on the secondaries; by the extreme outer edge of the primaries being white; and by the tail being regularly barred with black and white, which character is most conspicuous on the outer edges.

Female.-Top of the head, throat, chest, and back dark brown, inclining to olive on the upper surface, and to rufous on the chest; across the chest an obscure band of light grey, the lower part and vent scarlet; wings black, slightly freckled with brown on the outer edges of the secondaries and shoulders; the outer edges of the primaries fringed with white; two middle tail-feathers chestnutbrown, tipped with black; the two next on each side wholly black; the remainder strongly barred with black and white for nearly their whole length; bill yellow, clouded with brown. (Gould.)

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Locality.-North of Mexico.

Mr. Gould states that this species is identical with the Trogon glocitans of Lichtenstein.

Trogon (Calurus) resplendens, Gould. Male.-Beak gamboge-yellow; head covered with long filamentous plumes, forming a rounded crest; from the shoulders spring a number of lance-shaped feathers, which hang gracefully over the wings; from the rump are thrown off several pairs of narrow flowing plumes, the longest of which in fine adults measure from 3 feet to 3 feet 4 inches; the others gradually diminishing in length towards the rump, where they again assume the form of the feathers of the back-these plumes, together with the whole of the upper surface, throat, and chest, are of a most resplendent golden green; the breast, belly, and vent are of a rich crimson scarlet; the middle feathers of the tail black; the six outer ones white for nearly their whole length, their bases being black; feet brown. Total length from the bill to the end of the tail, 12 to 14 inches; wing 8 to 9; tarsi 1; length of longest plume about 3 feet.

Female or Young of the Year. These have only rudiments of the long plumes, seldom reaching more than an inch beyond the tip of the tail; the feathers of the crest more rounded, and not filamentous; feathers of the shoulders but slightly lanceolate; outer tail-feathers white barred with black, the centre ones black; whole of the chest, throat, and head obscure green, remainder of the upper surface bright green; breast and belly greyish brown; vent fine scarlet; bill black. (Gould.)

Mr. Gould, after quoting Trogon pavoninus, Temm. (Pl. Col.,' 372) as a synonym, truly observes, that it is scarcely possible for the imagination to conceive anything more rich and gorgeous than the golden-green colour which adorns the principal part of the plumage of this splendid bird; or more elegant and graceful than the flowing plumes which sweep pendent from the lower part of the back, forming a long train of metallic brilliancy.

So rich a dress must be fatally attractive; and, accordingly, we find that this the most beautiful of a beautiful tribe is only found in deep and gloomy forests remote from the haunts of civilized man. This, Mr. Gould observes, may perhaps account for its being so little known to Europeans until within the last few years; for although the long plumes were worn as ornaments by the antient Mexicans, and at a later period sent over by the Spaniards from time to time to Europe, yet it is only very recently that we have become acquainted with the entire bird; and he believes the first perfect example was received by the late Right Hon. George Canning, after whose decease it passed into the hands of Mr. Leadbeater.

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It is not improbable that the Two feathers of the Phoenix tayle,' mentioned in the Museum Tradescantianum (Lond., 12mo, 1656), were the long feathers of this species, which, once so rare, is now to be found in most collections of any note.

Mr. Gould observes, that the representation in the Planches Coloriées of M. Temminck is undoubtedly the first that was published; but he adds, that the author has evidently confounded it with a nearly-allied species discovered in Brazil, and figured in the Avium Species Nova, &c., of Dr. Spix. Mr. Gould feels assured that all those

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