TROGONID^ HAPALODERMA 121 



The members of this family are chiefly found in tropical 

 America. One genus is widely spread over the Oriental region, 

 and another throughout the Ethiopian. 



Genus I. HAPALODERMA. 



Type. ' 

 Apaloderma, Swains. Class. B. ii, p. 337 (1837) ............ H. narina. 



Hapaloderma, Agass. Index Universal, p. 172 (1846) ...... H. narina. 



Bill stout and short, edge of the upper mandible usually toothed, 

 nostrils concealed by the overhanging bristles ; face feathered ; tail 

 of twelve feathers long and graduated, the three central feathers 

 purplish or greenish, without subterminal black bars. 



This genus, containing three species only, is confined to Africa 

 south of the Sahara. 





434. Hapaloderma narina. Narina Trogon. 



Couroucou navina, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. v, p. 104, pis. 228-9 (1806). 



Trogon narina, Stephens, Gen. Zool. ix, p. 14 (1815); Grill, K. Vet. 

 AJfad. Handl. ii, no. 10, p. 44 (1858) [Knysna]. 



Apaloderma narina, Siva ins. Class. B. ii, p. 337 (1837) ; Layard, B. S. 

 Afr. p. 61 (1867) ; Holub & Pelzeln, Orn. Siid-Afrikas, p. 62 (1882). 



Hapaloderma narina, Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 323 [Zambesi] ; Verreaux, 

 P. Z. S. 1871, p. 41 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1873, p. 254 [Durban] ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 68 [Durban] ; Gould, Monogr. Troaons, 2nd ed. 

 pi. 34 (1875) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 106 (1875) ; Grant, 

 Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 477 (1892); Kendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 167 [Barber- 

 ton] ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 108 (1896) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, p. 497 

 [Zululand] ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 102 (1899). 



" Bosch-Lourie " of Dutch, " Umjenimengu " of Zulus. 



Description. Adult male. Head, chest, back and upper wing- 

 coverts green with a metallic gloss, outer greater-coverts dark 

 brown edged with green, inner ones and inner secondaries delicately 

 vermiculated with black and white ; primary quills black, margined 

 on the outer web with white, tail-feathers bluish-green, the three 

 outer pairs largely white for their distal halves; below from the 

 breast to the under tail-coverts bright crimson ; sides of the body 

 and thighs ashy-grey. 



Iris hazel ; bill light ash ; legs and feet dark flesh. 



Length 11-5 ; wing 5-0 ; tail 6-5 ; culmen 0-6; tarsus 0-5. 



The female differs from the male in having the forehead, sides of 



