Trogon surrucura, Vieillot, 1817

Vasconcelos, Marcelo Ferreira de, 2018, First avifaunal survey of a Cerrado dry forest enclave on the right bank of the São Francisco River, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with insights on geographic variation of some species, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58, pp. 1-18 : 4

Trogon surrucura (Surucua Trogon )

This species, sometimes treated as an Atlantic Forest endemic (Brooks et al., 1999), was frequent in our survey (IFL = 10.2%). All records were obtained in dry and gallery forests.Three specimens were collected: a female (MCNA 4965) and two males (MCNA 5181, MCNA 5182). They represent the nominotypical subspecies,which, in northern Minas Gerais,is the expected taxon occurring west of the EspinhaÇo Range, in the São Francisco River hydrographic basin ( Vasconcelos & D’Angelo-Neto, 2007). In the eastern slopes of this mountain range, it is replaced by the subspecies T. s. aurantius, which lives in semideciduous (Atlantic) forests ( Vasconcelos & D’Angelo-Neto, 2007).