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are deposited from two to four roundish eggs of a white, bluish, 
greenish, or buff colour. Zvrogon surucura has been observed 
clinging to a tree-trunk and excavating a cavity in an ants’ nest. 
The male at times incubates. The flesh is not unpalatable. 
_ Hapalarpactes reinwardti of Java is dark bluish-green above 
with a more olive crown, and yellow below with orange abdomen ; 
the primaries are black and white, the secondaries and their coverts 
green with yellow bars, the rectrices purplish as compared with the 
back, the lateral pair freely marked with white. The female 
has brown instead of yellow on the wing. AZ. mackloti of Sumatra 
has the rump chestnut in the male. The genus Harpactes ranges 
from India and Ceylon to Cochin China, the Indo-Malay Islands, 
and the Philippines. H. hasumba has the crown, throat, and 
chest black, the nuchal collar and under parts crimson, while 
a white band divides the two colours below; the upper parts 
are orange-rufous; the two median rectrices chestnut tipped with 
black; the rest of the tail and the wings black and white. 
The hen is brown above, becoming rufous towards the rump; 
the throat and chest are grey, the remaining lower surface and 
the wing-markings buff. Z. orescius has an olive-yellow head, a 
brilliant orange breast, and a chestnut back; the female being more 
sombre.  Mapaloderma narina, ranging from North-East Africa 
to Cape Colony and thence to Angola, is brilliant bronzy-green 
above; the wings and tail are black and white with a blue and 
green wash, the secondaries and wing-coverts being vermiculated 
with white; the chest is green; the breast and abdomen are crimson. 
The hen has the throat and chest brown, the breast duller. /7Z. 
constantia extends from the Calabar River to Fantee, H. vittatum 
is Kast African. The genus 7’rogon is found from South Arizona 
and Texas to North Argentina. 7. mexicanus is bronzy-green 
above and on the chest, the sides of the head and the throat 
being black, and the remaining under parts crimson, surmounted 
by a white band; the wings are blackish with white vermicula- 
tions on the secondaries and coverts; the two median rectrices 
are green with black tips, the others black and white. The 
female has the chest and upper surface, including that of the 
tail, brown, the wing-vermiculations buff 7. surucura has the 
most southerly range of the two dozen species. Prionotelus tem- 
nurus, peculiar to Cuba, has the sexes similar; the upper parts 
are bronzy-green, the head is black, glossed with purple and blue, 
