HARPACTES MACKLOTI. 



Macklot's Trogoo. 



Trogon Mackloti, Mull. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch., 1835, p. 336. tab. 8. fig. 1. 



Harpactes Mackloti, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. iii. App. p. 4. — Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., torn. i. p. 151, 



Harpactes, sp. 10. 

 Apalharpactes Mackloti, Bonap. Consp., vol. Zygod. p. 17. gen. 5 e. 44. 

 Hapalarpactes Mackloti, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 163. 



"I have named this species," says Dr. Muller, "in memory of my unfortunate friend and companion for 

 many years, Macklot. It is smaller than the Trogon Reinwardti of Temminck, but very much resembles it. 

 The chin, the throat, the whole of the belly, and the under tail-coverts are yellow, on a white ground; the 

 remainder of the head and neck, and a broad band across the chest, olive green ; the back has a beautiful 

 metallic lustre of bottle-green, with a large rust-coloured spot on the uropygium. The middle and larger 

 upper wing-coverts, the tertiaries, and the outer margins of the secondaries are adorned with fine transverse 

 golden-yellow stripes ; tail dark green, with a steel-blue tint ; the six middle feathers equal in length, and 

 uniformly-coloured; the three outer on each side have white terminal points, and each has a white margin 

 along the outer edge ; toes and nails red ; eye blackish brown ; naked orbits beautiful blue ; space 

 immediately behind the angle of the mouth light green ; lower eyelids with a yellowish-white spot. 



"Total length 10 £ in., French measure; tail 5js; the coral-red bill, from the angle of the mouth to the 

 point, 9|- lines long, 7 lines broad at the base; expanse of the wings 1 foot 2 inches and 9 lines. 



" The female is much the same as to colour, but has not the rusty-brown spot on the uropygium, and the 

 yellow stripes on her wings are smaller and fainter. 



"The bird was found in the woods on the southern side of the mountains of Singallang in Sumatra." 



Thus much has been written respecting this bird by Dr. Muller, with whose opinion in considering it 

 distinct from H. Reinwardti, I fully concur ; as yet, however, I have never met with an example bearing 

 the rusty-brown mark on the uropygium. Can this be a mark of immaturity, and Dr. Muller uncon- 

 sciously have taken his description from a specimen which had not yet completed its second moult ? 



The H. Mackloti is much inferior in size to the H. Reinwardti. By some they might be considered races 

 of the same species ; but I have never seen races differing in size to such an extent. That they represent 

 each other in the respective islands they inhabit is certain, and that we are right in considering them 

 distinct species there can be no doubt. 



As in the case of the H. Reinwardti, I have been obliged by the trustees of the Derby Museum at 

 Liverpool with the loan of examples of this species, in furtherance of the present work. 



The figures are of the size of life. The plant is the Plectocomia Assamica. 





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