glossy green at sides of neck or a few narrow green borders
on the chest. Lower breast cinnamon, sometimes finely barred with
dusky; belly somewhat lighter and rosier than that of male;
feathering of legs dusky. Tail similar to that of male; but the
vermiculation on the wing-coverts and secondaries is very much
finer, and light ochraceous-buff, not white.
Iris red-brown; naked cheek-patches lemon-yellow, base of bill
slightly deeper yellow; culmen dusky, bill light green below;
feet flesh-color, claws gray.
Measurements of three adult females: bill (culmen from base),
17-17.5 mm.; wing 104.5-113 mm.; tail, 140-149 mm.
An _immature male_ has the green of the upper breast broken by
irregular bars of cinnamon. The lower breast is cinnamon mixed
with rose, and barred at the sides with green, and shades to
light scarlet-red on belly and under tail-coverts. The greater
wing-coverts and three inner secondaries bear each a large spot
of light ochraceous buff, extending across the whole width of the
innermost secondary, and most of the secondaries are vermiculated
or speckled on their outer webs with buff. Just behind the eye
there is a small spot of white, and the lower edge of the
ear-coverts is marked by a buff line.
Iris dark brown; maxilla dusky, but its base greenish-yellow like
the naked cheek-patches, mandible light yellowish-green, with
light-gray tip; feet pinkish. Bill, 18.5 mm.; wing, 108; tail, 139.
A _nestling_ ([Male]), with tail only 25 mm. long, is of a
yellower green above (calliste green); lores, forehead and entire
underparts cinnamon-buff, the downy feathers slightly tipped with
dusky except on abdomen. The wing-coverts and inner secondaries
bear large spots of buff. Iris brownish-gray; bill very light
bluish-gray, its base and corners of mouth greenish-yellow; feet
pale flesh-color, claws gray.
The spots on the inner secondaries, in the first plumage, appear
to be much larger in the case of _A. minus_ than with _A.
narina_, for an immature female specimen of the latter shows only
rounded spots on the outer webs not exceeding 5.5 mm. in diameter,
while the additional buffy speckling is practically absent.
This trogon was found by us in the Ituri forest, from the Nepoko River
south to Avakubi and westward to Banalia, but i
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