Triumvir
in Roman government, one of the three men united in office. The triumvirs were either ordinary magistrates (as the triumviri capitales, who were police commissioners, having charge of the jails, and acting as magistrates, the triumviri monetales, who were commissioners of the mint, and had the charge of coining money), or they were extraordinary commissioners appointed to jointly execute any office. The term is specifically applied to the members of the two triumvirates.
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Trivah
Among the natives of Borneo the trivah, or feast of the dead, is celebrated after a death has taken place. A panel containing a representation of Tempon-teloris' ship of the dead (q.v.) is generally set up at the trivah, and sacrifices of fowls are offered to it. Until the trivah has been celebrated the soul's soul is unable to reach the Levu-liau.
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Trocha
Spanish word denoting a important part as a barrier in the Cuban insurrection in 1895-1898. It consisted of a clear space 150 to 200 yards wide, TROCHILIDÆ stretching through an apparently impassable jungle for 50 miles bordered by fallen trees and a maze of barbed wire. Through the center of the clearing ran a single-track military railroad, and on one side of that a line of forts.
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Trochilus
in ornithology: (1) The type genus of Trochilidæ. Tailfeathers pointed, wings short; plumage not very brilliant, except on the throat. Two species are known-T. colubris, inhabiting North America during the summer, and migrating in winter to Central America and the West India islands; and T. alexandri from California and Mexico. (2) Charadrius melanocephalus, a native of Egypt. It is about 10 inches long; general hue slate color; abdomen and neck white, head black, with two white stripes running from the bill, and meeting at the nape of the neck, black mantle extending over the shoulders to the tail, wings black, with a broad transverse black band.
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Trochu
LOUIS JULES, a French military officer; born in Le Palais, France, March 12, 1815; was educated at St. Cyr; engaged in the Algerian, Crimean and Italian campaigns published a pamphlet entitled "The French Army in 1867," and showed the weakness of the French army, by which he forfeited the favor of Napoleon. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War (1870), however, he was made Governor of Paris, and when the republic was proclaimed he was intrusted with the defense of the city, a position which he held till the capitulation. He was elected to the National Assembly in 1871 and retired to private life in 1873. He wrote: "For Truth and Justice" (1873); "Politics and the Siege of Paris," and "The French Army in 1879." He died Oct. 7, 1896.
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Troglodytes
in ornithology, the wren; a genus of Troglodytidæ or Troglodytinæ, from the Neotropical, Nearctic and Palearctic regions. Bill moderate, compressed, slightly curved, without notch, pointed; nostrils basal, oval, partly covered by a membrane; wings very short, concave, rounded; tail generally short; feet strong, middle toe united at the base to outer, but not to middle toe; tarsus rather long; claws long, stou stout, and carved. In zoölogy a genus of Simiinæ. Head not produced vertically; arms not reaching more than half down the shin; ribs 13 pairs; os inter-medium absent from the carpus; no ischiatic callosities; hair black, dun, or gray. The genus is confined to the west African sub-region, ranging from the coast about 12° N. and S. of the equator, from the Gambia to Benguela, and as far inland as the great equatorial forests extend. The number of species is not accurately determined; three, however, are well known, and have been carefully described: T. gorilla, the gorilla; T. niger, the common, and T. calvus, the bald chimpanzee. There are probably other species, since Livingstone met with what he supposed to be a new species in the forest region W. of the Nile, and another has been described by Gratiolet and Alix.
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Troglodytide
in ornithology, the wrens, a family of Passerine birds with 17 genera and 94 species. They are rather abundant and varied in the Neotropical region, with a few species scattered through the Nearctic, Palearctic, and parts of the Oriental region. The constitution of the family is by no means well determined.
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Troglodytine
a sub-family of Timaliidæ distinguished by the bill being long and curved, short in proportion to the body. TROGONIDÆ, in ornithology, a family of picarian birds, with seven genera and 44 species. They are tolerably abundant in the Neotropical and Oriental regions; and are represented in Africa by a single genus: bill short, strong, with a wide gape; tail generally long and in some species very long; feet small and often feathered almost to the toes, two of which are placed in front and two behind. They form a wellmarked family of insectivorous foresthaunting birds of small size, whose dense, puffy plumage exhibits the most exquisite tints of pink, crimson, orange, brown or metallic green, often relieved by delicate bands of pure white. In one Guatemalan species, Pharomacrus mocinno, the long-tailed trogon or quesal, the tail coverts are enormously lengthened into waving plums of rich metallic green, as graceful and marvelous as those of the birds of paradise. Trogons are unable to use their feet for climbing, and usually take their station on the branches of a tree, dashing on insects as they fly past, or on some fruit at a little distance from them, and returning to their seat to eat what they have secured.
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Trogon
a general name for a large family of tropical and semi-tropical birds, including about fifty specimens. The trogon has yoke feet like the feet of the woodpecker, save that the first and second toes of the trogon are directed backward, while the first and fourth toes of the woodpecker are reversed. The trogons are forest birds living on insects and berries. They are remarkable for softness and brilliance of plumage. The quetzal of Central America , known also as the long-tailed paradise or peacock-trogon, is one of the most gorgeous birds known. The body is no larger than that of a pigeon, but it is clothed in soft golden-green and crimson plumage, while the long upper tail-coverts project half a yard or more beyond the tail, forming a graceful spray or train. This trogon was held sacred by the ancient inhabitants of Central America. Resplendent trogon
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