202 BIKDS OF INIDA. 



and hill ranges to at least 3,000 feet. It is also found in some of 

 the forests of Central India, und in Ceylon. 



It prefers the more elevated situations, at about 2,000 feet or 

 so, and keeps generally to the thickest parts of the woods. It 

 is often to be seen seated motionless on a branch of a tree, 

 occasionally flying off to capture an insect on the wing, some- _ 

 times returning to the same perch, but oftener taking up a 

 fresh position, and in this way wandering about a good deal. 

 It is usually solitary, sometimes in pairs, and I have seen four 

 or five together. Its food consists of various insects, chiefly 

 coleopterous. Layard says that it is found in small parties of 

 three or four, and feeds on spiders, mantidge, and coleoptera. I am 

 not aware of having heard its note, and certainly have generally 

 found it a silent bird. Tickell, however, says that it has a wild 

 querulous note like the mewing of a cat. Its Hindustani name is 

 given from its sitting with the head sunk in the shoulders, as if it 

 had no neck, or as if dressed in a faquir's kvfni. 



116. Harpactes Hodgsoni, Gould. 



GoL'LD, Monog. pi. 33 and 34— Blyth, Cat. 396— HoiiSF., Cat. 

 1036 — T. erythrocephalus, Gould — Suda sohaghin (the male) 

 and Cuchcuchia (the female) Beng. — Hammesha jjeeara, Hind, i. e., 

 always thirsty. — Sahvor-pho., Lepch. 



The Red-headed Teogon. 



Descr. — Male, head, nape, back of neck, throat, and breast' 

 rich, bvit dull, dark crimson ; back, scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts, ferrviginous-brown, brightest on the rump ; the wing 

 coverts and tertiaries are uudvdated black and Avhite ; the 

 quills black, with the outer margin of the primaries whitish ; the 

 two centre tail-feathers deep chesnut, with black tip, the next 

 pair chesnut on the outer web, black on the inner web and at 

 the tip ; the outer three very much graduated, black, with a broad 

 white tip, and part of the outer web also white, nearly to the 

 extent of two-thirds on the outermost feathers ; lower parts from 

 the breast rich scarlet ; a narrow white line divides this from the 



