THE RED-HEADED TUOGON. 99 



Suborder COCCYGES HETERODACTYL^E. 



Family TROGONID^E. 



Genus HARPACTES, Swains. 



485. HARPACTES ERYTHROCEPHALUS. 



THE RED-HEADED TROGON. 



Trogon erythrocephalus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 25 ; id. Mon. Troy. 1st edit, 

 pi. 33. Trogon hodgsoni, Gould, t. c. 1st edit. pi. 34. Harpactes hodgsoni, 

 Gould, t. c. 2nd edit. pi. 42 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 202 ; Hume, Nests and Egg*, 

 p. 99 ; Bl B. Burm. p. 82 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 47 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 66. 

 Harpactes erythrocephalus, Gould, Mon. Trog. 2nd edit. pi. 43 ; Hume fy 

 Dav. S. F. vi. p. 498 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 85 ; Oates, S. F. viii. p. 164 j Bingham, 

 S. F. ix. p. 152 ; Hume fy Inglis, S. F. ix. p. 246. 



Description. Male. The whole head, neck and lower plumage deep 

 crimson, duskier on the head and throat ; back, scapulars, lesser wing- 

 coverts, rump and upper tail-coverts chestnut-brown ; greater and median 

 coverts and tertiaries black, finely vermiculated with white ; primaries 

 black, the outer edges white near the base; secondaries black, vermiculated 

 with white on the outer webs only ; central tail-feathers chestnut, tipped 

 with black ; the next pair chestnut, the tip and the outer half of the inner 

 webs black ; the next pair black, the basal half of the outer web chestnut ; 

 the others are black, broadly tipped with white. 



The female has the whole neck, breast and upper plumage ferruginous 

 brown, and the lower plumage is less brilliant than in the male. The 

 vermiculations on the wing are buff instead of brown. 



Bill bluish ; the culmen and tip of both mandibles and the anterior half 

 of the margins of upper mandible black ; gape and orbital skin purplish 

 blue ; iris dull red ; mouth flesh- colour ; legs pinkish ; claws dark at base, 

 flesh-colour at tip. 



Length 13*5 inches, tail 8, wing 5'8, tarsus '6, bill from gape M. The 

 female is a little smaller. 



The Trogon of this type from Sumatra and Borneo is said to differ from 

 the Indian race. I have not been able to verify this statement. Should 



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