362 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
326. MICROPUS SUBFURCATUS (Blyth). 
LESSER WHITE-RUMPED SWIFT. 
Oypselus subfurcatus BuytTH, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. (1849), 18, 807; BLan- 
Forp, Fauna Brit. Ind, Bds. (1895), 3, 169; SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 
2, 96; Oates and Rem, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 82; McGreaor, 
Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 346, pls. 4 & 5, fig. 2. 
Micropus subfurcatus HARTERT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 16, 456. 
Camiguin N. (McGregor). Northeastern Bengal, Indo-Chinese provinces, south- 
ern China, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 
Adult.—Very similar to Cypselus pacificus but much smaller; under 
parts darker, more blackish brown and the feathers without white fringes. 
“Bill black; iris dark brown; legs and feet varying from deep purplish 
black to flesh-color. Length, about 146; tail, 51; wing, 140; tarsus, 10; 
outer rectrices, 7, longer than middle pair.” (Blanford.) | 
A female from Camiguin, north of Luzon, measures: Wing, 136; tail, | 
52; depth of fork, 8; bill from frontal feathers, 7. : 
The only known Philippine specimen was shot from a flock of Micro- 
pus pacificus on Camiguin Island, north of Luzon. 
Order TROGONES. 
TROGONS. 
First and second toes reversed; the other two toes united for two- 
thirds of their length. 
Family TROGONIDA. 
Bill short, strong, and wide; culmen curved; a notch at tip of upper 
mandible; nostrils covered by well-developed bristles; face partly naked ; 
wings short and curved to the body; first primary about one-half of 
fifth which is longest; tail long and broad, square at the end; two outer 
pairs of rectrices short; legs short, tarsus partly feathered; plumage full 
and soft; skin very thin and tender. 
Genus PYROTROGON Bonaparte, 1854. 
Characters same as those given for the Family. 
327. PYROTROGON ARDENS (Temminck). 
PHILIPPINE TROGON. 
Trogon ardens TEMMINCK, PI. Col. (1826), 404. 
Harpactes ardens GRANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 17, 487. 
Pyrotrogon ardens SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 150; McGrecor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 60. 
Basilan (Steere, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (Mce- 
Gregor); Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Meyer, Méllendorff, 
Steere Exp., Whitehead, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere 
