478 TROGONID^. 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat viii. p. 318 (1817) ; id. Enci/cl. Meth. iii. 



p. 1300(1823) ; Less. Traite Orn. p. 121 (1831) ; Gould, Mon. Trog. 



ed. i. pi. 2() [text] (1838) ; Sundev. Krit. Framst. p. 49 (1857); 



BreJim, Ergehn. Reise Habesch, p. 276 (1863) ; Monteiro, P. Z. S. 



1865, p. 92; Fimch ^- Hartl. Tiig. Ostafr. p. 155 (1870) ; Finsch, 



Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 219 (1870); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 134; Fisch. 



^- Reich. J.f. O. 1878, p. 253. 

 Apaloderma narina, Swains. Class. B, ii. p. .337 (1837) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 70 (1845) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 43 (1848) ; 



Bonap. Consj). Gen. Av. i. p. 150 (1850); Layard,B. -S'. Afr. p. iil 



(18J7) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 83 (1869). 

 Hapaloderma narina, Cab. Sf Heine, Mm. Hein. Th. iv. p. 164 



(1863); Kii-k, Ibis, 1864, p. 323; Biancoiii, Spec. Zool. Mosamb. 



fasc. xviii. p. 320 (1867) ; Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 176 (1809) ; 



Gitrney, Ibis, 1873, p. 254 ; Guuld, 3Ion. Trog. ed. ii. pi. 34 [text] 



(1875) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 08 ; Sharpe in Layard's B. S. Afr. 



p. 100 (1875) ; Bocaye, Orn. d' Angola, p. 82 (1881) ; Gurney, 



Ibis, 1881, p. 124 ; Shellnj, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 224. 

 Trogon (Hapaloderma) narina, Gurney, Ibis, 1882, p. 75. 



Adult male. Head, chest, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 green, the latter with bluish reflexions, the rest with golden 

 bronze; breast and rest of underparts blood-red, rather darker on 

 the upper breast ; thighs blackish grey ; wings black ; quills with 

 white bases ; primaries margined on the outer web with white, 

 secondaries finel}' vermiculated on the outer web with white and 

 margined with green ; greater primary-coverts black, narrowly mar- 

 gined on the outer web with green : rest of the coverts finely vermi- 

 culated with white and margined with green ; three middle pairs of 

 tail-feathers blackish glossed with dark blue and edged on the outer 

 web with green ; three outer pairs have the basal two-thirds of the 

 tail blackish glossed with blue, and the remainder white, the white 

 meeting the black obliquely and extending towards the base on 

 the outer web : bill lemon-yellow ; feet dark flesh-colour; iris bright 

 chestnut. Total length 1 1-5 inches, Aving 5"2, tail 6-6, tarsus 0-65. 



An immature male differs only from the adult in having the 

 green of the chest mixed with rusty brown, and the culmen 

 dusky. 



A somewhat younger bird has most of the lores, throat, and 

 chest rust-brown ; the rest of the underparts pinkish, except the 

 under tail-coverts, which are whitish, shaded at the tips with buff, 

 and the outer secondaries blotched with white towards the ex- 

 tremities of the outer webs. 



A still younger specimen resembles the above, but has a ring of 

 buff feathers tipped with green at the base of the throat, and the 

 feathers of the chest are pinkish grey, narrowly barred with dusky 

 intermixed with buff, tipped with greyish black. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the lores, 

 throat, and chest rusty brown, the latter shading gradually into the 

 piidvish-grey breast : culmen and base of lower mandible dark 

 horn-colour, rest of lower mandible lemon-yellow ; feet dark flesh ; 

 iris brown. Total length 11-1 inches, wing o-l. tail 6'6, tarsus 0-6.5, 



