Masked Trogon

One of the trogons with the highest number of subspecies: 9! Ssp personatus personatus which gives its name to the species (west of Venezuela, the farthest west of Colombia and the Pacific shores of Ecuador) - ssp sanctaemartae, darker in its coverings than personatus, with more whitish vermiculations in the male and cream in the female (northwest Colombia, in the Santa Marta massif) - ssp temperatus, which some hope to promote to the rank of species, the male having a brighter green coloring with blue reflections on the cap, mantle and back, the beak shorter, the lower rectrices showing almost no white lines, appearing black with only three large white marks at the extremity of the three pairs of rectrices, the female of a very strong brown dominant, brown-tawny on the cap, forehead and throat, very dark brown-chestnut on the back, brown coverings with marked white vermiculations, lower rectrices with little visible white lines, upper rectrices of a very strong brown-tawny, tropical wet zone (center and east of the central and Ecuadorian cordillera) - ssp heliothrix, similar to personatus, small beak, the male having less marked vermiculations and the coverings blackish-gray appearing more unbroken, the upper rectrices having a blue-green shade, the horizontal white lines of the lower rectrices much more marked, the three white marks very large, the female pâler on the breast, the coverings rather gray and the vermiculations less marked than temperatus, the lower rectrices more white than black (very localized on the eastern flanks of the cordillera in Peru, region of Junin) - ssp submontanus, very close to temperatus, larger beak, the male showing upper rectrices of a blue shade, the lower rectrices very black, the white lines hardly visible, the female having the coverings grayer than temperatus, the vermiculations more diffuse, coloring general enough toned down (on the eastern flanks of the Peruvian cordillera, region of Puno near the Bolivian border, also in the south of Bolivia, region of Chuquisaca) - ssp assimilis, very close to personatus, beak larger, the male having the upper rectrices gold-green, the white vermiculations on the coverings very fine and the latter appearing anthracite, the horizontal white lines of the lower rectrices extremely fine, the female resembling much the female personatus, the vermiculations barely visible on the coverings (west of the western cordillera in Colombia, the closest to the Pacific, up to the western flanks of the Andes in Ecuador and northwest Peru, region of Piura) - ssp duidae, rather small, the male having the mantle and back copperish, the upper rectrices of a tawny-coppery, the lower rectrices rather marbled white than classically lined, the female resembling the female personatus but is not or scarcely observed (confined to the center and south of Venezuela, localized very dispersedly in the mountainous regions of Brazilian Amazonia, northwest of Bolivia) - ssp roraimae immediately recognizable, the cap, nape and back more bronze than green, shoulder-scapulars almost golden-green, the upper rectrices brown-chestnut of bronze hues, the lower rectrices having rather wide white stripes, the female looking like personatus but showing the same thick white stripes as the male (the distribution more erratic: in the mountains of the center and south of Bolivia, in Brazilian Amazonia, of course in the state of Roraima, also in the farthest west of Guyana) - ssp ptaritepui, similar to roraimae, no clearly catalogued observation (confined to the southeast of Venezuela in the state of Bolivar, taking its name from the Ptari-tepui mountain which reaches a summit of 2 400 m).
One of the trogons with the highest number of subspecies: 9! The Masked Trogon's (Trogon masqué) ssp personatus personatus gives its name to the species (west of Venezuela, the farthest west of Colombia and the Pacific shores of Ecuador) - ssp sanctaemartae, darker in its coverings than personatus, with more whitish vermiculations in the male and cream in the female (northwest Colombia, in the Santa Marta massif) - ssp temperatus, which some hope to promote to the rank of species, the male having a brighter green coloring with blue reflections on the cap, mantle and back, the beak shorter, the lower rectrices showing almost no white lines, appearing black with only three large white marks at the extremity of the three pairs of rectrices, the female of a very strong brown dominant, brown-tawny on the cap, forehead and throat, very dark brown-chestnut on the back, brown coverings with marked white vermiculations, lower rectrices with little visible white lines, upper rectrices of a very strong brown-tawny, tropical wet zone (center and east of the central and Ecuadorian cordillera) - ssp heliothrix, similar to personatus, small beak, the male having less marked vermiculations and the coverings blackish-gray appearing more unbroken, the upper rectrices having a blue-green shade, the horizontal white lines of the lower rectrices much more marked, the three white marks very large, the female pâler on the breast, the coverings rather gray and the vermiculations less marked than temperatus, the lower rectrices more white than black (very localized on the eastern flanks of the cordillera in Peru, region of Junin) - ssp submontanus, very close to temperatus, larger beak, the male showing upper rectrices of a blue shade, the lower rectrices very black, the white lines hardly visible, the female having the coverings grayer than temperatus, the vermiculations more diffuse, coloring general enough toned down (on the eastern flanks of the Peruvian cordillera, region of Puno near the Bolivian border, also in the south of Bolivia, region of Chuquisaca) - ssp assimilis, very close to personatus, beak larger, the male having the upper rectrices gold-green, the white vermiculations on the coverings very fine and the latter appearing anthracite, the horizontal white lines of the lower rectrices extremely fine, the female resembling much the female personatus, the vermiculations barely visible on the coverings (west of the western cordillera in Colombia, the closest to the Pacific, up to the western flanks of the Andes in Ecuador and northwest Peru, region of Piura) - ssp duidae, rather small, the male having the mantle and back copperish, the upper rectrices of a tawny-coppery, the lower rectrices rather marbled white than classically lined, the female resembling the female personatus but is not or scarcely observed (confined to the center and south of Venezuela, localized very dispersedly in the mountainous regions of Brazilian Amazonia, northwest of Bolivia) - ssp roraimae immediately recognizable, the cap, nape and back more bronze than green, shoulder-scapulars almost golden-green, the upper rectrices brown-chestnut of bronze hues, the lower rectrices having rather wide white stripes, the female looking like personatus but showing the same thick white stripes as the male (the distribution more erratic: in the mountains of the center and south of Bolivia, in Brazilian Amazonia, of course in the state of Roraima, also in the farthest west of Guyana) - ssp ptaritepui, similar to roraimae, no clearly catalogued observation (confined to the southeast of Venezuela in the state of Bolivar, taking its name from the Ptari-tepui mountain which reaches a summit of 2 400 m).