100 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



it differ, however, it cannot bear either of Gould's names, for both are 

 referable to the Indian and Burmese bird. 



The Red-headed Trogon is found abundantly over the whole of Pegu 

 and Arrakan where there are tracts of heavy forest, and is more common 

 on the hills than in the plains. In Tenasserim Mr. Davison did not meet 

 with it south of Mooleyit mountain ; and Capt. Bingham remarks that it 

 is by no means common in the Thoungyeen valley. Capt. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay obtained it in Karennee at an elevation of 4000 feet. 



It extends north through the Indo-Burmese countries and the hill-tracts 

 of Eastern Bengal, and it is found in the Himalayas as far as Nipal. 



This species, or a closely allied race, is said to occur in Borneo and 

 Sumatra, but there is no record of its occurrence in the Malay peninsula. 



This Trogon affects thick forests, and, although solitary in its habits, it 

 is so common in some of the hill-forests that a dozen or more may 

 frequently be seen together. It feeds entirely on insects, swooping on 

 them in the air. I found the eggs in May near Pegu; they were three 

 in number, a very pale buff in colour, and laid on the bare wood in. a 

 hollow of a decayed tree. Capt. Bingham found the eggs in Tenasserim 

 in March. 



486. HARPACTES ORESKIOS. 



THE YELLOW-BREASTED TROGON. 



Trogon oreskios, Temm. PI. Col. 181 ; Gould, Man. Trog. 1st edit. pi. 36. Har- 

 pactes gouldii, Swains. Class. Birds, ii. p. 337. Harpactes oreskios, Wald. 

 P. Z. S. 1866, p. 538 ; Gould, Mon. Trog. 2nd edit. pi. 46 j Hume, S. F. iii. p. 47 ; 

 Bingham, S. F. v. pp. 50, 82 ; Davison, S. F. v. p. 454 j Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. 

 p. 66; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 85. Orescius gouldii, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 31. 

 Harpactes orescius, El. B. Burm. p. 82 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 186. 



Description. Male. Forehead, crown, nape, sides of the head and of 

 the neck yellowish green ; chin, throat and upper breast dull yellow ; lower 

 breast, abdomen and sides brilliant orange-yellow ; vent and under tail- 

 coverts yellow ; back, scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts chestnut ; 

 central tail-feathers chestnut, tipped with black ; the next two pairs black ; 

 the outer three pairs black at base, white at tip ; lesser wing-coverts 

 chestnut-brown ; greater and median coverts and tertiaries black, closely 

 barred with white ; primaries black, the outer webs of the second to the 

 eighth edged with white ; secondaries black, barred with white on the 

 outer webs only. 



The female has the head and nape olive-brown; the remainder of the 



