200 



dull black or blackish grey ; back, scapulars, and coverts along 

 forearm yellowish brown, slightly paler on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts ; wings black, the coverts away from the forearm, 

 except the greater primary-coverts, tertiaries, and outer webs 

 of secondaries, finely and closely barred w r ith slightly undulating 

 white lines ; the quills white at the base, and the outer webs of 

 all primaries, except the first and a few of the last, with a white 

 border ; middle tail-feathers chestnut with a black tip, the 

 remainder black, generally some chestnut on second and third 

 pairs from middle, three exterior pairs with long white tips : a 

 white band between the black upper breast and the rest of the 

 lower parts, which are pale crimson, the lower tail-coverts paler still, 



Female. Head, neck, and upper breast olive-brown, no white 

 gorget ; rest of lower parts brownish buff ; bars on wing- coverts, 

 tertiaries, and secondaries light brown, instead of white ; tail- 

 feathers as in immature males. 



Young males have the lower parts mixed with buff and white, 

 the bars on the wings are fulvous, and the head and neck 

 brownish. The 2nd and 3rd pairs of tail-feathers from the 

 middle have more chestnut than in adults, this colour extending 

 along the shafts and both borders. 



Bill deep blue; orbital skin smalt- blue; irides dark brown;, 

 feet light lavender-blue (Jerdon}. 



Length 12 ; tail 6 -75 ; wing 5 ; tarsus -6 ; bill from gape 1 : 

 females rather less. Ceylonese birds are smaller than Indian. 



Distribution. Local and rare throughout the forest country east 

 of about 80 long., extending from Hazaribagh and Midnapur to 

 south of the Grodavari ; more common in the forests near the 

 Malabar coast, from Western Khandesh (whence both Lord Tweed- 

 dale and Mr. Hume obtained specimens) to Cape Comorin. This 

 species does not occur in any part of the peninsula beyond the 

 tracts mentioned, but is found generally distributed in Ceylon. 



Habits, <$fc. Those of the genus. The eggs have been taken in 

 March, April, and May, and are usually three in number, ivory- 

 white, and about 1*08 by *95 in dimensions. 



1101. Harpactes erythrocephalus. The Eed-headed Trogon. 



Trogon erythrocephalus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 25. 

 Harpactes erythrocephalus, Swains. Class. Birds, ii, p. 337 ; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 116 ; id. S. F. xi, p. 41 ; Oates, & F. viii, p. 164 ; 

 Binqham, S. F. ix, p. 152 ; Hume 4* Inglis, ibid. p. 246 ; Oates, 

 B. B. ii, p. 99 ; id. in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 339 ; Ogilvie 

 Grant, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 488. 



Harpactes hodgsoni, Gould, Mon. Trog. ed. i. pi. 34 (1838) ; Blyth, 

 Cat. p. 80; Horsf. 8f M. Cat. ii, p. 713 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 202 ; 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 342; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, 

 p. 95 ; xliii, pt. 2, p. 177 ; Hume fy Oates, S. F. iii, p. 47 ; Blyth 

 Wald. Birds Burm. p. 82 ; Hume fy Inglis, S. F. v, p. 18 ; Bing- 

 ham, ibid. p. 82 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 66. 



Suda-sohagin <$ , Cuchcuchia $ , Beng. ; Hamesha piyara <$ (" always 

 beloved," not "always thirsty," as translated by Jerdon), H. ; Sakvor, 

 Lepcha ; Htat-ta-yu, Burmese. 



