362 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



326. MICROPUS SUBFURCATU8 (Blyth). 

 LESSER WHITE-RUMPED SWIFT. 



Cypaelus subfurcatus BLYTH, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. (1849), 18, 807; BLAN- 

 FORb, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1895), 3, 169; SHABPE, Hand-List (1900), 

 2, 96; GATES and REID, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 82; MCGREGOR, 

 Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 346, pis. 4 & 5, fig. 2. 



Micropus subfurcatus HABTERT, 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 blacb; 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 TROGCXNTES. 



TEOOONS. 



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First and second toes reversed; the other two toes united for two- 

 thirds of their length. 



Family TROGONIDJE. 



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 ardent SHABPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 150; MCGREGOR and WOR- 

 CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 60. 



Basilan (Steere, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor)-, Bohol (Mc- 

 Gregor); Dinagat (Everett); Leyte (Whitehead) ; Luzon (Meyer, Mollendorff, 

 Steere Exp., Whitehead, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Marinduque (Steere 



