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Title: Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Shaw, George, 1751-1813 Ryley, Charles Reuben, 1752?-1798, ill Reinagle, Philip, 1749-1833, ill Stone, Sarah, ca. 1760-1844, ill Skelton, William, 1763-1848, engraver Edwards, Sydenham, 1769?-1819, engraver
Subjects: Lever, Ashton, Sir, 1729-1788 Leverian Museum (London, England) Zoology Natural history museums Mammals Birds
Publisher: (London) : Impensis Jacobi Parkinson
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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iolaceo Lathami quamreliquis fimilior eft, nee impoffibile puto quin illius fit varietas; ni fortafle fexutantum difFerat. Roftrum plunibeo-nigricat, verfus apicem albefcens. Caput, collum, pedus,egregie et faturatim violaceo-cyanea. Ate nigrs. Remigum latus exteriusmargine albo notatiir, unde fit, ut alis claufis, lines mults concolores ducantur.Dorfum cyaneo-viride fubaureum fplendet. Teftrices caudte fuperiores quafiferics, perviridi-Cteruko lucidiffimse, Cauda ipfa nigrans, ut tamen paululum virefcat, ( 176 ) virefcatj e reflricibus conflat apicem fere quadratls, feu quafi fubtruncatis, in-termediis duabus ad extremum aterrimis. Reprices tres utrinqiie exterioresgradatim breviorcs nigrant, lateribus apicibufque oblique albo terminatis, ut de-monftrat tabula. Abdomen album fubgilvo leviffime perfufum. Crura pedefqucnigrant. Americfe Auftralis eft incola Trogon Leverianus; et cum rellquis plerifquccongeneribus in Cayena prscipue cernitur. Magnitudine Trogonem violaceuir»Eequat, THE
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T R O « O W II.. IB V IB R1A KTU S . •T H IE I. M V IB H IATJ T R O B 017. Ji.ft-^i <u Ji, ^fjif*^ Ct.l^yt.^ fj-t-^thn^^ . /..<« ( 177 )THE LEVERIAN TROGON. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill fhortj thick, convex, generally dentated on the edge?.Nostrils covered with ftiff bridles.Feet fcanforial. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Violaceous Trogon with a glofs of green-gold j wings black j abdomenwhite; the three exterior tail-feathers black with white tips. THIS moll elegant bird does not perfedly agree with any fpecies ofTrogon hitherto defcribed. It however approaches more nearly to theTrogon violaceus, or Violet-headed Curucui of Mr. Latham, than to any otherfpecies; and it is not impoffible that it may be either a variety, or a fexualdifference of that bird. The beak is of a dark lead-colour, growing much lighter or whitifh towardsthe tip: the head, neck, and breaft, are of a very fine and deep violet-blue:the wings black j the long-feathers or remiges edged on the exterior fide withwhite, for

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