HARPACTES, 40? 



tump and upper tail coverts chestnut ; central tail feathers chestnut, tipped 

 with black ; next two pairs black ; outer pairs black at base, white at tip ; 

 lesser wing coverts chestnut brown ; greater and median coverts and tertiaries 

 black, closely barred with white ; secondaries black, barred with white on the 

 outer webs only ; primaries black, the outer webs of the second to the eighth 

 edged with white. {Oates.) 



The female has the upper plumage reddish brown ; the head and nape olive 

 brown ; wings and tail as in the male, except the coverts, secondaries and 

 tertiaries which are buff, and the chin yellowish ; lower parts yellow. Bill smalt- 

 blue, culmen and tip blackish ; orbitar skin bluish ; legs plumbeous j irides 

 dark brown. 



Length.~\2 inches; tail 7-3; wings 5 ; tarsus O'6 ; bill from gape 0*85. 



Hab. Sumatra, Java, Siam, Cambodia, and the greater part of British 

 Burmah. It occurs also in Arracan and Tenasserim. Like the last confined 

 to dense forest. Breeds in Tenasserim during the months of February and 

 March, Eggs 2 3 in number, placed in a hole in a branch of a tree, and of 

 a pale buff colour. 



988, Harpactes DuvaUCelli (Temm.\ Gould, Monog. Trog. 2nd 

 Edit., pi. 40; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 63 ; ffume, Sir. F. viii. p. 85 ; 

 Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. TOi. Trogon Duvaucelli, Temm. y PL Col. 291 ; 

 Gould, Monog, Trog. 1st Edit., pi. 32, Pyrotrogon Duvaucelli, Salvad. Ucc, 

 Born. p. 2i. DUVAUCELL'S TROGON. 



Whole head and neck black ; back and scapulars ruddy buff ; rump, upper tail 

 coverts, breast and lower plumage bright crimson, paler on the vent and under 

 tail coverts ; central tail feathers bright bay, sometimes tipped black ; next 

 two pairs black ; the rest black at base and broadly tipped white ; wings 

 blackish ; all the coverts, tertiaries, outer webs of the secondaries and of the 

 first primary barred with white ; outer webs of the other primaries narrowly 

 edged with white. (Oates.) The female has the head brown tinged with rusty 

 on the throat ; lower plumage pale crimson ; wing bars buff ; rump and upper 

 tail coverts like the back, but washed with crimson. 



Bill on the sides and gape cobalt blue ; culmen and tip of upper and lower 

 mandible black at base ; legs smalt blue ; irides deep brown ; orbitar skin 

 pale blue. 



Length. IO inches; tail 5*4; wing 4*2 ; tarsus O'4 ; bill from gape 0*9. 

 Hab. The Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and the extreme south of 

 Tenasserim. Habits not unlike the other members of the genus. 



SUB-ORDER. ZYGODACTYLI. 



Bill various, more or less arched, often straight and angular ; toes two 

 before and two behind ; outer hind toe often reversible. 

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