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are deposited from two to four roundish eggs of a white, bluish, 

 greenish, or buff colour. Trogon surucura has been observed 

 clinging to a tree-trunk and excavating a cavity in an ants' nest. 

 The male at times incubates. The flesh is not unpalatable. 



Hapalarpaetes reinivardti of Java is dark bluish-green above 

 with a more olive crown, and yellow below with orange abdomen ; 

 the primaries are black and white, the secondaries and their coverts 

 green with yellow bars, the rectrices purplish as compared with the 

 back, the lateral pair freely marked with white. The female 

 has brown instead of yellow on the wing. H. macJdoti of Sumatra 

 has the rump chestnut in the male. The genus Harpactes ranges 

 from India and Ceylon to Cochin China, the Indo-Malay Islands, 

 and the Philippines. H. kammba has the crown, throat, and 

 chest black, the nuchal collar and under parts crimson, while 

 a white band divides the two colours below ; the upper parts 

 are orange-rufous ; the two median rectrices chestnut tipped with 

 black ; the rest of the tail and the wings black and white. 

 The hen is brown above, becoming rufous towards the rump ; 

 the throat and chest ai-e grey, the remaining lower surface and 

 the wing-markings buff. H. orescius has an olive-yellow head, a 

 brilliant orange breast, and a chestnut back ; the female being more 

 sombre. Hajpcdoderma narina, ranging from North-East Africa 

 to Cape Colony and thence to Angola, is brilliant bronzy-green 

 above ; the wings and tail are black and white with a blue and 

 green wash, the secondaries and wing-coverts being vermiculated 

 with white; the chest is green; the breast and abdomen are crimson. 

 The hen has the throat and chest brown, the breast duller. B. 

 constantia extends from the Calabar Eiver to Pantee, H. vittatum 

 is East African. The genus Trogon is found from South Arizona 

 and Texas to North Argentina. T. mexicamis is bronzy-green 

 above and on the chest, the sides of the head and the throat 

 being black, and the remaining under parts . crimson, surmounted 

 by a white band ; the wings are blackish with white vermicula- 

 tions on the secondaries and coverts ; the two median rectrices 

 are green with black tips, the others black and white. The 

 female has the chest and upper surface, including that of the 

 tail, brown, the wing-vermiculations buff. T. surucura has the 

 most southerly range of the two dozen species. Prionotelus tem- 

 nurus, peculiar to Cuba, has the sexes similar ; the upper parts 

 are bronzy-green, the head is black, glossed with purple and blue. 



