If it were not for what your mother has promised you about the Lyre-bird, and what she is going to promise you about this Trogon, there would soon be no more beautiful Lyre-birds in Australia, and no more beautiful Trogons in Mexico.
But first I must tell you that there are a great many birds called Trogons that live in other parts of America as well as in Mexico, and in other parts of the world as well as in America.
I was a whole year in the most inaccessible places hunting for thosetrogons before I got them.
I cried enthusiastically; and though we worked for some time longer my help was very poor, on account of the number of times I kept turning to the splendid trogons to examine their beauties again and again.
We have plenty of trogons out in the West; some of them most gorgeous fellows, with tails a yard long, and of the most resplendent golden metallic green.
Why are the closely allied species of brown-backed Trogons all found in the East, and the green-backed in the West?
In the Trogons of the tropical regions we see elegance of form combined with the most gorgeous colouring.
The trogons form a family of very gorgeously coloured and remarkable insect-eating birds very abundant in tropical America, less so in Asia, and with a single genus of two species in Africa.
Thus all the species in the splendid group of the Trogons build in holes; and Mr. Gould gives figures (21.
The trogons are found in the tropics of both hemispheres.
Trogons have feeble wings, and a dull, inactive temperament.
Trogons are found in the tropics of both the Old and New Worlds.
Several species of trogons are peculiar to this submerged region.
It seizes its food in the same way that the trogons do.
The Trogons are found only in the dark primeval forests of the Tropics; shunning the haunts of man, and living in solitude and silence.
The Jacamas and the Trogons both love these shady nooks, where they sit nearly motionless, watching for passing insects, upon which they dart.
The fly-catchers and trogons sit on branches and fly after the larger insects, the fly-catchers taking them on the wing, the trogons from off the leaves on which they have settled.
In the breeding season, the trogons are continually calling out to each other, and are thus easily discovered.
Perhaps we may find my golden-green trogons up there after all, for I feel sure that there are some to be found up among the head-waters of the river.
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