Description

A common trogon of lowlands, mainly in non-humid forested areas. Male has a bluish gray bill and bright blue eye-ring, female with dusky maxilla and duller eye-ring. Male's head, throat, and chest black, becomming glossy bluish green on back and violet-blue on rump and upperside of tail; lower underparts yellow, separated from black chest by white band; underside of tail black, feathers broadly tipped white (at times almost obscuring the black). Female has dusky gray replacing the male's black and glossy violet and green; pattern on underside of tail similar, but white tipping slightly narrower.