FROM WESTERN SUMATRA. 13 



17 specimens. 

 ))Iris dark brown , bill black , feet ocliraceous. Native 

 name: SilindV^ 



16. Trog on erythrocephalus. 



Trogon erythrocephalus, Gould, P. Z. S, 1834, p. 25; id. Mon. Trog. 



pi. 33 (1838); — Snelleman, Sum. Exp. Vogels, p. 83 



(1884). 

 Trogon fiagrans, Mull. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. en Physiol. 1835 , p. 338, 



pi. 8, fig. 2. 

 Pijrotrogon erythrocephalus, Cab. Si Heine, Mus. Hein. IV. p. 160 



(1863); — Salvad. Ucc. di Borneo, p. 28 (1874). 

 Pyrotrogon flagrans, Salvad. Ucc. di Sumatra, p. 176 (1879). 



3 specimens. 



))Iris in all three specimens brown, round the eye ultra- 

 marine , yielding to lilac , and also the bill , the point of 

 which is black, feet minium-red. Native name: Kassumbo 

 merahy 



A revision of the specimens of T. erythrocephalus, T. 

 hodgsoni and T. flagrans , contained in the Ley den Museum 

 convinces me that neither of the two latter ones are speci- 

 fically distinct from the first. I have before me 8 specimens 

 from Sumatra, 7 from Nepal and 2 marked » Hodgson" 

 without any other indication. All the Sumatran specimens 

 are somewhat smaller than those from the Continent , the 

 wings measuring 12,8 to 13 cm. (=5 inches, the length 

 of wing noticed in the original description of T. erythro- 

 cephalus). The length of wing in our Indian examples 

 varies between 13,8 and 14,8 cm. 



There are three specimens in the Muséum (oue from 

 Nepal and the two labelled » Hodgson") in which the red 

 on breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts is but faintly 

 represented on the sides of the breast and on some of 

 the under tail-coverts , all the rest being pure white. All 

 three specimens have the head , throat and chest olivaceous 

 brown. 



Amongst the three specimens from Dr. Klaesi's collec- 



Notes from the Leyden ]\Iiaseuixi , Vol. IX. 



