. Bird-lore . JUll-BlRD {Bucco ruficallis). /(,/. yuit^it TROGONS (Trogon collaris and Pkaromacrus aniisianus) (347) 348 Bird - Lore Every student in the tropics hopes he may soon meet with Trogons, atonce the most beautiful and the most mysterious of all the varied tropical could exceed the richness of their contrasting blood-red underparts, white and black tails,and resplendentemera Id - green headsand backs. The largePharomacrus Trogons,of which the famedQuetzal is a type,with their delicate yetrichly gorgeous andpendulous mantle offeathers, are, forsheer beauty, amongNatures

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. Bird-lore . JUll-BlRD {Bucco ruficallis). /(,/. yuit^it TROGONS (Trogon collaris and Pkaromacrus aniisianus) (347) 348 Bird - Lore Every student in the tropics hopes he may soon meet with Trogons, atonce the most beautiful and the most mysterious of all the varied tropical could exceed the richness of their contrasting blood-red underparts, white and black tails,and resplendentemera Id - green headsand backs. The largePharomacrus Trogons,of which the famedQuetzal is a type,with their delicate yetrichly gorgeous andpendulous mantle offeathers, are, forsheer beauty, amongNatures truly greattriumphs, and cannotfail to force deep ap-preciation from themost calloused ormercenary antisianus has aloud, rolling call, whichI put in my notes asWhee 00, corre o, donein a round, velvetywhistle. When, afterquite a long time spentin imitating the un-known note, in thesoggy tree-fern forestat the ridge of thecoast Andes, thismagnificent ruby andemerald creature cameswinging toward me indeeply undulating waves and

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