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on either side meeting" overhead and rendering the place very 

 gloomy. Trogons are always to be found in such localities, more 

 especially if there should be just a gleam of sunshine through 

 a small gap in the trees. Both these species of Trogous catch 

 their food entirely on the wing-, never, as far as I have observed, 

 returning to the same perch. I saw oreskios only once, and then 

 my cartridge missed fire." 



This species certainly does occur in the Pegu Yoma Hills with- 

 in our limits, but it is much more common across the Sittang 

 and throughout Tenasserim, at any rate as far south as Mergui. 



The following are dimensions, colors of the soft parts, &c, 

 recorded in the flesh from a very large series of both sexes : — 



Males : Length, 11-75 to 12-25; expanse, ]4"25 to 15*4; tail, 

 from vent, 6-75 to 7'82 ; wing, 4'82 to 5-12; tarsus, 0'5 to 0*6; 

 bill, from gape, 085 to 0"95; weight, 1*75 to 2 oz. 



Females: Length, 1125 to 11*8; expanse, 15'0 to 15'5; tail, 

 from vent, 6*82 to 7*5; wiug, 4*8 to 52; tarsus, 0*5 to0'57; 

 bill, from gape, 0*9; weight, 1*75 to 2 oz. 



The legs and feet are dull smalt blue, occasionally with a 

 faint pinkish tinge ; the claws are bluish horny or bluish white ; 

 the irides are deep brown ; the orbital skin and eyelids, smalt blue, 

 sometimes very bright ; the greater part of the bill is bright 

 smalt blue ; a stripe along the ridge of the culmen ; the edge of 

 the upper mandible to the nostril and the tip of lower mandible, 

 black or blackish brown. 



The colors of the soft parts are alike in both sexes. In the 

 male the lores, forehead, crown, occiput, nape, ear-coverts and sides 

 of the neck immediately behind the ear-coverts, bright olive green ; 

 the chin, throat, and breast are of a somewhat similar color, but 

 brighter and with much more of a golden tinge ; the entire back, 

 scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts and central tail feathers, bright 

 chestnut ; the latter, tipped black. The wings, (except the lesser 

 coverts, at the carpal joint and along the ulna,) black, paling to 

 dark hair brown on the inner webs of the quills ; the winglet and 

 all the greater and median coverts (except the primary greater 

 coverts), the tertiaries and the outer webs of the secondaries, 

 narrowly and somewhat closely barred with white. The second 

 to the seventh or eighth primary narrowly margined on their 

 outer webs with white ; a white patch at the base of all the 

 quills, but the first primary, usually only visible beyond the coverts 

 on the outer web, in the sixth to the eighth or ninth primaries. 



The central tail feathers have been already described ; they are 

 very generally about 0*25 of an inch shorter than the next 

 feathers on each side, which are longest and entirely black. The 

 next pair again are also entirely black. They are about 0*25 inch 

 shorter than the longest; the next pair are about (M<, the next 2*0, 

 and the exterior of all 3'5 shorter than the longest. 



