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TROGONID^. 



Brit. 3Ius. p. 44 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 80 

 (1849) ; Hor.sf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co. ii. p. 712 

 (1856-58). 

 Pyrotrogon rutilus, Cab. Sf Seine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 154 (18G3). 



Adult male. Head, nape, chin, and throat deep hlack ; back 

 cinnamon-brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts, chest, and rest of 

 iTnderparts brilliant scarlet ; thighs grey tinged with rnst ; wings 

 and tail as in H. l-asumba ; bill purplish blue at the base, rest 

 black : gape and naked space above eye cobalt-biue ; irides deep 

 brown ; legs and feet dark purplish blue. Total length 9-2 inches, 

 wing 4"1, tail 5-1, tarsus 0'4. 



Quite young males resemble the female, but the top of the head 

 has a few black feathers ; the chest and breast are mixed here and 

 there with the scarlet feathers of the adult, and some of the white 

 barred secondaries are usually present. 



In somewhat older specimens the head and throat are nearly 

 quite black, and the chest is nearly pure scarlet. 



Adult female. Top of the head dark olive-brown; lores, feathered 

 parts of cheeks, chin, throat, and back rust-brown, shading into 

 dull pinkish or orange-red on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 chest rusty buff tinged with pink and shading into dull orange-pink 

 on the breast and rest of underparts ; wings and tail as in the adult 

 male, but the bars on the wing-coverts and secondaries are buff, 

 and the terminal black band of the centre tail-feathers is much 

 narrower. Total length 9-2 inches, wing 4-2, tail 5, tarsus 0*4. 



Toung females differ from the above in having the wing-coverts 

 and secondaries more widely barred with buff, the breast less pink, 

 the under tail-coverts buff, the tail-feathers pointed, the centre pair 

 without the black terminal band and the second pair sometimes 

 with a subtermiual oval rufous spot. 



Hah. S. Tenasserim southwards throughout the Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, BiUiton, and Borneo. 



a-c. S ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 d. $ ad. sk. 

 e-n. J 5 '•^^- 6* 



imm. sk. 



o. (S ad. sk. 

 p-d'. S ? ad. sk. 



e'. 2 ad. sk. 

 /-/'. 6 5 ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 m', n'. S ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 o' ,p' . 6 2 imm. 



sk. 

 q'. (S ad. sk. 



Palaw-tou-ton, Tenas- 

 serim, Dec. [Davison). 



Malawoon, Feb. {Davison). 



Bankasoon, Feb., Mar., 

 May, Jime, Dec. (Davi- 

 son). 



Perak Mountains. 



Klang, Salangore, Feb., 

 Mar., April, July, Aug. 

 (Davison). 



Salangore, tie'pt.{Daviso?i). 



Jobore, Aug., Sept. (Da- 

 vison) . 



Mt. Opbir, Malacca, Aug. 

 ( Wardhnv Bamsay). 



Neealys, Malacca, Oct. 

 (Davison). 



Kuroo, Malacca, Nov. 

 (Davison). 



Hume Coll. 



Hume CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 



L. Wray, Esq. [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume CoU. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



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