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TROGONID.E 



HAPALODERMA 



the head, throat aTid chest a yellowish-brown instead of green, 

 shading on the lower breast through lilac to carmine on the 

 abdomen ; iris brown, bill dark brown on the upper mandible and 

 base of the lower, rest yellow ; wing 4-80. 



In young birds the vermiculations of the inner secondaries are 

 spread over a considerable portion of the wings ; the breast is also 

 transversely barred with dusky. 



Distribution. — This Trogon was first discovered by Levaillant in 

 the forests of Outeniqua and along the Gamtoos river, now in the 

 districts of Knysna and Humansdorp of the Colony. From here it 

 is spread along the more wooded parts of the Colony, Natal and 

 Zululand, extending through Nyasaland and German east Africa to 



Fig. .39. — Hapaloderma narina. x \. 



southern Abyssinia. On the west coast it reappears in Angola, 

 though not hitherto recorded from German south-west Africa. 



The following are locahties : Cape Colony — Knysna (Victorin), 

 Peddie (S. A. Mus.), Port St. John's (S. A. Mus.) ; Natal— near 

 Durban (Ayres), Pinetown (Shelley), Echowe and Umgoye in 

 Zululand (Woodward) ; Portuguese east Africa — Zambesi valley, 

 scarce (Kirk) ; Ehodesia — Junction of Chobe and Zambesi (Holub). 



Habits. — The Narina, so called by Levaillant after a Hottentot 

 beauty for whom he professed great admiration, is found only in 

 thick bush, where it creeps about or sits motionless and voiceless in 

 a very upright position with its head closely drawn down on to its 

 shoulders ; it is usually solitary though two or three birds may now 

 and then be found together. Its note to which it only gives vent 

 during the breeding season is loud, monotonous and mournful, and 

 is also somewhat ventriloquial, so that although the bird may be 



