. A dictionary of birds . places, Quetzalapan,Quetzaltepec, and Quezaltenango, though perhaps some of the last were nameddirectly from the personages (c/. Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific States,vol. V. Index). Quetzal-itzli is said to be the emerald. - This specimen had been given to Mr. Canning (a tribute, perhaps, to thestatesman who afterwards boasted that he had called a New World intoexistence to redress the balance of the Old ) by Mr, Schenley, a diplomatist,and was then thought to be unique in Europe ; but, apart from those whichhad reached Spain, where they lay neglected and
. A dictionary of birds . places, Quetzalapan,Quetzaltepec, and Quezaltenango, though perhaps some of the last were nameddirectly from the personages (c/. Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific States,vol. V. Index). Quetzal-itzli is said to be the emerald. - This specimen had been given to Mr. Canning (a tribute, perhaps, to thestatesman who afterwards boasted that he had called a New World intoexistence to redress the balance of the Old ) by Mr, Schenley, a diplomatist,and was then thought to be unique in Europe ; but, apart from those whichhad reached Spain, where they lay neglected and undescribed, James Wilsonsays {Illustr. Zool. pi. vi. text) that others were brought with it, and that oneof them v/as given to the Edinburgh Museum. On the 21st day of the sale ofBullocks Museum in 1819, Lot 38 is entered in the Catalogue as The TailFeather of a magnificent undescribed Trogon, and very likely belonged to thisspecies. It was bought for nineteen shillings by Warwick, a well-knownLondon dealer. QUEZAL 759. QuEZAL, male and female. 76o QUEZAL species (with which he first became acquainted prior to 1810, fromexamining more than a dozen specimens obtained by the natural-history expedition to New Spain and kept in the palace of theRetiro near Madrid) under the name by which it is now commonlyknown, Pharomacrus mocinno,^ in memory of a Mexican naturalist,Dr. Mociiio. This fact, however, being almost unknown to therest of the world, Gould, while pointing out Temmincks error { Soc. 1835, p. 29), gave the species the name of Trogonresplendens, which it bore for some time. Yet little or nothingwas generally known about the bird until Delattre sent an accountof his meeting with it to the Echo du Monde Savant for 1843{reprinted Bev. Zool. for that year, pp. 163-165). In 1860 thenidification of the species, about which strange stories had beentold to the naturalist last named, was determined, and its eggs, ofa pale bluish-green, were procured by Mr. Robert Owen (P
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