212 curucui. 



shell being very thin; sit twenty days; is a silent bird, except in 

 time of incubation, when it has a sort of melancholy note ; the young 

 follow the parents for a time ; known to the Hottentots by the name 

 of Narina. 



10- FASCIATED CURUCUI— Pl. l. 



Trogon fasciatus, Ind. Orn.'x. 200. Gm. Lin.\. 405. Zool. Ind. p. 15. t. 5. NatuTf. 



xvii. s. 17. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 6. 

 Trogon Ceylonensis, Bris. Orn. 8vo. ii. p. 91. 

 Fasciated Curucui, Gen. St/n. ii. 492. Ind. Zool. p. 35. pl. 4. 



LENGTH twelve inches and a half; weight an ounce and a half. 

 Bill blackish blue, cultrated, near the end of both mandibles a 

 notch, and the under one shuts beneath the upper ; nostrils oval, 

 covered with short reflected bristles, surrounding the base of the bill; 

 tongue plain, even, sharp-pointed ; eyes large, surrounded by a 

 beautiful, purple, naked orbit ; irides dark orange ; head, neck, 

 breast, and belly scarlet ; across the breast a narrow white band; 

 back, rump, upper tail coverts, and thighs chestnut; wing coverts 

 black, variegated with irregular white bars; quills white at the base; 

 otherwise black ; the prime ones white on the outer edge, the fourth 

 the longest ; the second quills have the outer webs beautifully 

 variegated with white bars ; the two middle tail feathers brown, with 

 black tips ; the two next have great part of the inner web black ; in 

 the two next only part of the outer web is brown, the remainder 

 black ; the fourth and fifth black, with a considerable space of white 

 at the ends; the outermost the same, but the white occupies more 

 space ; the three outer ones much shorter than the six middle, and 

 graduated ; the outmost very short ; legs dirty red. 



The female is one inch and a half shorter. The head, and neck, 

 to the breast, dull chestnut ; wing coverts reddish white, with slender 



