A Monograph of the Trogonidæ; or, Family of Trogons

Abstract

THE completion of a second edition of Mr. Gould's “Monograph of the Trogons,” is an event which ought not to pass by without a notice in this Journal. The first edition of this work, published in 1838, was one of the earliest of Mr. Gould's magnificent series. Of its fellow Monograph, that of the Toucans, a second edition was issued some time since, and the present work is a worthy companion to it. During the thirty-seven years which have elapsed since the publication of the first edition of the “Monograph of Trogons,” Mr. Gould, as his brother ornithologists know full well, has by no means neglected the subject, but has from time to time brought forward descriptions of new species that have come to his knowledge from the more thorough exploration of the tropics that has of late years taken place. From these, and other sources, the number of known Trogons, which at the time of the first Monograph was thirty-four only, has now been increased to forty-six, of the whole of which splendid life-sized pictures, according to Mr. Gould's wonted practice, ate given in the present volume.