723 Mr. W. L. Sc-later on Birds collected 



below, the breast, is buflTy, mottled and irregularly barred 

 with green and dusky. 



['' Bosch-lourie ^' at Knysna; '' Trogou '^ of the Trans- 

 vaal ; ''' Sansobi " of the Zulus. 



I have taken this Trogon in the Knysna, in Zululand and the 

 North-Eastern Transvaal ; it was said to occur at Legogot, 

 tliough I did not myself come across it ; but I both saw and 

 heard it in the Beira and Gorongoza districts of Portuguese 

 East Africa. Where found it is fairly plentiful, and is seen 

 either singly or in pairs ; it is essentially a bird of the woods 

 and forests, never being seen in ordinary "^ bush-veld,'^ but 

 occasionally in tree-fringed streams and rivei's in forested 

 districts. It is often seen flitting through the trees with a 

 rapid twisting flight, the green back shining in the sunlight; 

 but when perched it is extremely difficult to detect unless the 

 w^atcher catches sight of the belly, the rest of the colouring 

 harmonizing so avcII with the foliage of the trees. The cry is 

 only uttered in the summer season, the bird being apparently 

 silent during the rest of the year; it is, I believe, only uttered 

 by the male and sounds like a '^'goo'^ several times repeated. 

 It can be easily mistaken for the cooing oi Haplopella larvata, 

 except that with the Trogon it never varies in tone. It can 

 be heard at a good distance and is distinctly ventriloquial, 

 the performer often being quite close when it sounds a 

 distance away. The food of this bird consists of insects, 

 which I have seen it catch on the wing, darting out from a 

 fixed perch. I have never succeeded in finding the nest, but 

 it apparently has two broods, as I have shot the young in 

 changing plumage in February and again in April, the latter 

 probably representing the broods hatched in January and 

 February and the former those about October. 



The soft parts of the adult are : — 



(^ . Irides rich brown ; bare skin round eyes blue, bare skin 

 at back of eye, base of beak, and throat green and yellow ; 

 bill lemon-yellow at base, greenish yellow at tip ; legs and 

 toes whitish flesh-coloured, 



? . As in the male, except the bare patch on throat yellow, 

 and legs and toes browner. 



