HABPACTES. 



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Coloration. Male. Head and neck all round, and upper breast, 

 deep crimson ; chin blackish ; remainder of lower parts bright 

 crimson behind an ill-marked white gorget; back, scapulars, 

 and wing-coverts along forearm ferruginous-brown, brighter and 

 more rufous on rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings as in H. fas- 

 ciatus ; middle tail-feathers rich chestnut, black-tipped, the next 

 two pairs black, with usually part of the outer web chestnut ; 

 outer three pairs black, with long white tips. 



Female. Head and neck all round, upper breast, back, and 

 scapulars orange-brown, rump more rufous ; coverts and second- 

 aries barred light brown and black; lower parts red as in the 

 male. The young of both sexes have the lower parts from the 

 breast white or buff, wholly or in ])art. 



Fig. 59. — Head of H. erythrocephalus, \. 



Bill bluish, tips of both mandibles and culmeu black ; gape 

 and orbital skin purpHsh blue ; iris dull red; legs pinkish (Oates). 



Length 13 ; tail 7*5 ; wing 5*8 ; tarsus '6 ; bill from gape 

 1-1, Females rather less. 



Distribution. Himalayas as far west as Eastern Nepal, up to 

 about 5000 feet elevation, also throughout Assam and the Burmese 

 countries to the Malay Peninsula, in forest. 



Habits, S,-c. Like those of other species. The eggs, generally four 

 in number and creamy white, are laid from March to July ; they 

 measure about 1"14 by "95. 



1102. Harpactes duvauceli. The Red-r%i,m.ped Trogon. 



Trogon duvaucelii, remm. PI. Col. pi. 291 (1824). 



Harpactes rutilus, Gray, Oen. B. i, p. 71 (1845) ; Blyth, Cat. p. 80 ; 



Horsf. ^- M. Cat. ii, p. 712 {nee VieilL). 

 Harpactes duvauceli, Hume, S. F. iii, p. 318; id. Cat, no. 115 bis; 



Hume (^ Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 63, 498 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 101 ; Oyilvie 



Grant, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 491. 



Coloration. Male. Whole head and neck jet-black ; back, 

 scapulars, and coverts along forearm orange-brown; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts and lower plumage from throat crimson ; wings 

 as \\\ H.fasciatus, hut the white bars wider apart; middle tail- 

 feathers bright chestnut tipped with black, the next two pairs 

 black, the three outer pairs black with long white tips. 



