494 TROGONID^. 



9. Harpactes oreskios. 



Trooon oreskios, Temm. PI. Col. no. 181 (1823) ; id. PI. Col., Courouc. 



sp. 8 (1825) ; IStejyh. {nShaw\s Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 220 (1826) ; Less. 



TraiU Orn. p. 121 (1831) ; Gould, Mon. Troy. ed. i. pi. 36 [text] 



(1838). 

 Hai-pactes oreskios, Gould, Mon. Troy. ed. i. syn. spec. Harpactes 



(1838) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 71 (1845) ; id. List Fissir. Brit. Mus. 



p. 45 (1848) ; BhjtJi, Cat. B. 3Ivs. As. Soc. p. 80 (1849) ; Bonap. 



Camp. Gen. Ar. i. p. lol (1850) ; Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E. Ind. Co. ii. p. 716 (1856-8) ; Gould, B. Asia, 1. pi. 71''[text] 



(1865) ; Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 538 ; Gould, Mon. Troy. ed. ii. 



pi. 46 [text] (1869) ; Bear. Ibis, 1869, p. 407 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 84 (1869) ; Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 47 (1875) ; Binyham, Sir. F. 



V. pp. 50, 82 (1877) ; Dav. Str. F. v. p. 454 (1877) ; Hume ^ Dav. 



Sir. F. vi. pp. 66, 498 (1878) ; Binyham, Str. F. ix. p. 152 (1880) ; 



Gates, Str. F. x. p. 186 (1882) ; id. B. Burmah, ii. p. 100 (1883) ; 



Sharpe, This, 1888, p. 395 ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 280 ; Gates, Hume's 



Nests Sr Fyys Ind. B. ii. p. 342 (1890). 

 Hai-pactes orescius, BlytA. B. Burm. p. 82 (1875) ; Gates, Str. F. x. 



p. 186 (1882) ; Sharpe,' Ibis, 1890, pp. 3, 281. 

 Oreskios gouldi, Bonap. Co7isp. Vol. Zyy. p. 14 (1854). 

 Orescius g-ouldi, Crt6. ^- Heine, Mus. Ilein. Th. iv. p. 161 (1863); 



Salvad. Cat. Ucc. Boriieo, p. 31 (1874). 



Adult male. Head and nape olive-yellow, shading into brighter on 

 the chest and especially the chin, which is nearly pure yellow ; 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts chestnut; upper breast fiery 

 orange, shading into yellow on the belly and under tail-coverts ; 

 wings and tail as in H. kasumba, but the white bars on the wing- 

 coverts and secondaries are much wider, straighter, and more distant 

 from one another : bill bright blue, ridge of culmen and tip of lower 

 mandible blackish brown ; eyelids blue ; legs and feet pinkish grey. 

 Total length 11-3 inches, wing 4-9, tail 6-6, tarsus 0-5. 



Immature males differ from the adult only by having the outer 

 secondaries pale buff, irregularly barred and blotched with black, 

 and the inner ones black, toothed and margined with buff on the 

 outer web ; the tail-feathers are, as usual, pointed, the centre pair 

 being without the black terminal band. 



A nestling male with the tail only beginning to sprout resembles 

 the female in the colouring of the upper parts, but the throat is 

 mostly covered with black down and the whole of the rest of the 

 under surface is rusty bulf. 



Adult female. Top of the head brown tinged with j-ellow ; back 

 dull brown, shading into rust on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 chest sandy brown washed with yellow ; breast and rest of uuder- 

 parts lemon-yellow ; wings and tail like those of the male, but the 

 wing-coverts and secondaries are barred with buff instead of white, 

 the buff bars being as wide or nearly as wide as the black inter- 

 spaces. Total length 11-2 inches, wing 4-8, tail 6-6, tarsus 0-55. 



Immature females differ from the above in having the outer 

 secondaries buff, blotched and barred with black, and the inner ones 

 black, widely toothed and blotched with very pale buff, and the tail- 



