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Female. Head above dark olive-brown; sides of head, chin, and 

 throat rufous-brown ; back lighter rufous- brown, becoming orange- 

 brown tinged with red on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing- 

 coverts and secondaries barred with buff ; upper breast yellow- 

 brown, passing into pink on the abdomen. In young birds the 

 lower parts are chiefly buff. 



Tip and ridge of culmen and a narrow streak on each side 

 horny black ; gape and sides of bill cobalt-blue ; irides dull 

 brown ; orbital region smalt-blue ; legs and feet the same, varying 

 in depth of hue (Davison). 



Length about 10 ; tail 5 ; wing 4-2 ; tarsus -4 ; bill from gape *9. 

 Females a very little smaller than males. 



Distribution. Not uncommon in Southern Tenasserim, as far 

 north as Tavoy, and throughout the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra 

 and Borneo. 



1103. Harpactes orescius. The Yellow-breasted Trogon. 



Trogon oreskios, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 181 (1823). 



Harpactes oreskios, Blyth, Cat. p. 80 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 716 ; 



Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 538; Hume $ Gates, S. F. iii, p. 47; 



Bingham, S. F. v, pp. 50, 82 ; ix, p. 152 ; Davison, S. F. v, 



p. 454; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 66, 498; Hume, Cat. no. 



116 bis ; Gates, B. B. ii, p. 100 ; id. in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. 



ii, p. 342 ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 494. 

 Orescius gouldi, Cab. fy Heine, Mus. Hein. iv, pt. 1, p. 161 (1863) ; 



Salvadori, Ann. Mits. Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. 561. 

 Harpactes orescius, Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 32 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, 



p. 407 ; Blyth $ Wold. Birds Burm. p. 82 ; Gates, S. F. x, p. 186. 



Coloration. Male. Crown, nape, and sides of head yellowish 

 olive ; hind-neck, chin, throat, and fore-neck more yellow, passing 

 into rich orange on the breast, and this again into yellow-orange 

 on the abdomen and lower tail-coverts ; back, scapulars, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and wing-coverts along the forearm chestnut ; 

 wings as in the other species, except that the white bars on the 

 wing-coverts, secondaries, and tertiaries are broader, straighter, 

 and much farther apart ; tail as in H. duvauceli. 



Female. Head, neck, and upper breast olive-brown, passing on 

 back into rufous-browri ; bars on wings buff; lower parts from 

 breast deep yellow. In immature birds the abdomen is white or buff. 



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

 bright smalt-blue; iris dark brown ; legs plumbeous blue (Gates). 



Length 12 ; tail 6-4 ; wing 5 ; tarsus -55 ; bill from gape '9. 



Distribution. Arrakan, Pegu, and Tenasserim, Siam, Cochin 

 China, the Malay ' Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. Not 

 recorded from Upper Burma, nor from any country north of 

 Arrakan. 



Habits, $c. Those of the genus, but, according to Davison, this 

 species keeps less exclusively to dense forest. The eggs have been 

 taken by Bingham and Davison in February and March, and are 

 two or three in number, glossy, pale cafe-au-lait in colour, and 

 about 1'05 by *83 in dimensions. 



