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crimson of the breast. Tlie female differs in having the whole 

 head, neck, breast and upper parts ferruginous-brown, lightest 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; lower parts light crimson ; 

 the lesser wing-coverts and tertiaries finely undulated with 

 black and brown. 



Bill deep smalt-blue, blackish at the culmen and on the tip ; irides 

 chesnut-brown ; orbitar skin deep lavender-blue ; legs and feet 

 pale lavender. 



Length 13 inches ; wing 6 ; extent 18 ; tail 7| ; bill at front j\ ; 

 tarsus |, 



This handsome Trogon is found in the Himalayas from Nepal 

 eastwards, in Assam, Sylhet, Arrakan, and Tenasserim. It prefers 

 hilly places at from 2,000 to 4,500 feet. At Darjeeling I found it 

 chiefly about 4,000 feet, frequenting dark shaded valleys, and 

 flying from tree to tree at no great elevation ; or a few of them 

 together keeping near the same spot, making sallies every now 

 and then, and seizing insects on the wing. It feeds on coleoptera 

 chiefly. Tickell, who lately observed it on the Tenasserim hills, about 

 3,000 feet and upwards, says that it flies in small troops, is active and 

 vociferous in the morning, solitary and quiet during the heat of 

 the day. I had the eggs of this Trogon brought me at Darjeeling. 

 They were said to have been taken from a hole in a tree ; they 

 were two in number, white, and somewhat round. There was no 

 nest, it was stated, only some soft scrapings of decayed wood. 



Several species, having a general resemblance in the mode of 

 coloration to these Indian Trogons, are found in Burmah, Malacca, 

 and the islands, viz., H. oreshios in Burmah, H. kasumha, H. 

 Diardi, and H. rutilus, in Malacca and Sumatra, H. Heinwardtii 

 in Java, and H. ardens in the Philippines. 



There is only one species in Africa of rather small size ; and two 

 distinct forms in South America, some of them of resplendent 

 green and gold plumage, and with long scapulars, and plumes 

 covering the tail, forming the genus Pharomacrus. The American 

 Trogons are described by Swainson and Wallace as darting at a 

 fruit with a loud whirr of their wings, seizing it dexterously on the 

 wing, and returning to their original seat. 



