DUVAUCEL'S TROGON. 'lOl 



upper plumage reddish brown ; tail as in the male; wings as in the male, 

 ; pting that the bars on the coverts, secondaries and tertiaries are buff; 

 the chin is yellowish ; the throat and breast greyish brown ; the remainder 

 of the lower parts is deep yellow, without the fiery orange tint of the male. 

 Bill purplish blue, the culmen and tip blackish; orbital skin bright 

 smalt-blue; legs plumbeous blue; claws dark horn; mouth dusky flesh- 

 colour; iris dark brown. 



Length 12 inches, tail 7'3, wing 5, tarsus *6, bill from gape "85. The 

 female is of the same size. 



The Yellow-breasted Trogon is found over the greater part of British 

 Burmah. Mr. Blyth gives it from Arrakan. In Pegu I observed it on 

 the Pegu hills near the frontier, and more commonly in some of the forests 

 between the hills and the Sittaug river as far down as Pegu ; and Capt. 

 Wardlaw Ramsay got it on the Karin hills. Mr. Davison says it is 

 generally distributed and common throughout Tenasserim, being more 

 frequent between Moulmein and Tavoy ; and, according to Capt. Bingham, 

 it is extremely common in the Thoungyeen valley. 



Out of Burmah it probably occurs in portions of the Malay peninsula, 

 for it is met with in Sumatra, Java and perhaps in Borneo. Mr. Blyth 

 gives it from Siam and Cambodia; but Dr. Tiraud did not find it in 

 Cochin China. 



This Trogon is not confined to evergreen or dense forest like the 

 preceding species, but is met with also in bamboo- and spare tree-jungle. 

 It has similar habits to the Red-headed Trogon. Both Capt. Bingham 

 and Mr. Davison found numerous nests of this bird in Tenasserim in 

 February. The eggs, two or three in number, are placed at the bottom of 

 a hole in a branch of a tree ; they are of a pale buff colour. 



487. HARPACTES DUVAUCELII. 

 DUVAUCEL'S TROGON. 



Trogon duvaucelii, Temm. PL Col 291 ; Gould, Mon. Trog. 1st edit. pi. 32. Py- 

 rotrogon duvaucelii, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 29. Harpactes duvaucelii, 

 Gould, Mon. Trog. 2nd edit. pi. 40 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 63 ; Hume, S. F. 

 viii. p. 85. 



Description. Male. The whole head and neck black ; back and scapulars 

 ruddy buff ; rump, upper tail-coverts, breast and all the lower plumage 

 bright crimson, becoming paler on the vent and under tail-coverts ; central 

 tail-feathers bright bay, sometimes tipped black ; the next two pairs black ; 



