P I C A E I M. 

 TROGONID^E. 



G-enus HAEPACTES. 



Bill very short and broad ; upper mandible deep ; culmen much curved, the tip with a small 

 notch ; gonys short, deep, and much ascending. Nostrils basal, narrow, situated in a membrane, 

 which is protected by bristles. Chin furnished with weak bristles. Wings short, the primaries 

 much decurved ; the 4th and 5th quills the longest, the 1st rather short. Tail broad, much 

 graduated, even at the tip. Tarsus half-feathered ; inner anterior toe slightly longer than the 

 outer ; inner posterior toe much longer than the outer one. 



Eye surrounded by a naked skin. 



HAEPACTES FASCIATUS. 



(THE CEYLONESE TROGON.) 



Trogon fasciatus, Forster, Ind. Zool. p. 34, pi. 5 (1781) ; Gm. ed. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. pt. 1, 



p. 405 (1788). 

 Trogon ceylonensis, Briss. Orn. vol. ii. p. 19 (1763). 

 Trogon malabaricus, Gould, Mon. Trogonidse, 1st ed. pi. 31 (1838). 

 Harpactes malabaricus, Sw. Classif. Birds, vol. ii. p. 337 (1839) ; Jerd. Cat. B. S. India, Madr. 



Journ. 1840, xi. p. 232. 

 Harpactes fasciatus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 80 (1849); Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. 



p. 118 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 171 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. 



B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 714 (1856) ; Legge, J. A. S. (Ceylon Br.), 1870-71, p. 35 ; 



Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 422 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 432, et 1876, p. 498 ; 



Ball, ibid. 1874, p. 385, et 1876, p. 231 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 13, et 1875, p. 281 ; 



Bourdillon, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 382 ; Fairbank, ibid. 1877, p. 393. 

 Pyrotrogon fasciatus, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 156 (1862). 

 Der Band-Kuruku, Forster ; The Fasciated Curucui, Gmelin ; The Fasciated Trogon, Kelaart; 



Bed Flycatcher, Europeans in Ceylon. 

 Kufni churi, Hind. ; Karra, Mahrattas ; Kalcarne hakki, Canarese. 

 Nawa nila kurulla, Banwan kondea, Grinni kurulla, Sinhalese. 



Adult male and female. Length 105 to 11*2 inches ; wing 4-4 to 5-0 (average about 4-7) ; tail 5-4 to 6-0, outer- 

 most feather 3'0 shorter ; tarsus 0'55 to 07 ; inner anterior toe - 6, its claw (straight) 0-3 ; inner posterior toe 

 0-4 ; bill to gape 0-9 to 1-05. 



Females slightly the smaller of the sexes. 



Iris hazel-brown or reddish brown, in some with a pale outer circle; bill, orbital skin, eyelid, and gape French blue, the 

 orbital skin being the palest ; culmen and tips of mandibles black ; legs and feet delicate greyish blue, claws 

 bluish horn. 



Male. Head, nape, face, and chin dull black, paling gradually to dark slate on the fore neck and upper part of the 

 chest ; hind neck partially denuded of feathers ; back and scapulars yellowish olive-brown, paling into rufescent 



