THE RED-HEADED TROGON. 
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Suborder COCCYGES HETERODACTYLiE. 
Family TROGONID^E. 
Genus HAEPACTES, Swains. 
485. HAS;PACTES EEYTHHOOEPHALUS. 
THE RED-HEADED TROGON. 
Trogon erythrocephalus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1834, p. 25 ; id. Man. Trog. 1st edit, 
pi. 33. Trogon hodgsoni, Ooidd, t. c. 1st edit. pi. 34. Harpactes hodgsoni, 
Gould, t. c. 2nd edit. pi. 42 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 202 ; Hume, JVests and Eggs, 
p. 99 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 82 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 47 ; Hume ^ Bav. S. F. vi. p. 66. 
Harpactes erythrocephalus, Gould, Man. Trog. 2iid edit, pi 43 ; Hume 8f 
Bav. S. F. vi. p. 498 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 85 ; Oafes, S. F. viii. p. 164 j Bingham^ 
S. F. ix. p. 152 ; Hume Sf Inglis, S. F. ix. p. 246. 
Description. — Male. The whole head^ neck and lower plumage deep 
crimson_, duskier on the head and throat ; back^ scapulars^ lesser wing- 
covertSj rump and upper tail-coverts chestnut-brown ; greater and median 
coverts and tertiaries black, finely vermiculated with white ; primaries 
black, the outer edges white near the base ; secondaries black, vermiculated 
with white on the outer webs only; central tail-feathers chestnut, tipped 
with black ; the next pah^ chestnut, the tip and the outer half of the inner 
webs black ; the next pair black, the basal half of the outer web chestnut ; 
the others are black, broadly tipped with white. 
The female has the whole neck, breast and upper plumage ferruginous 
brown, and the lower plumage is less brilliant than in the male. The 
vermiculations on the wing are buff instead of brown. 
Bill bluish ; the culmen and tip of both mandibles and the anterior half 
of the margins of upper mandible black ; gape and orbital skin purplish 
blue j iris dull red j mouth flesh- colour ; legs pinkish ; claws dark at base, 
flesh- col our at tip. 
Length 13'5 inches, tail 8, wing 5*8, tarsus '6, bill from gape 1*1. The 
female is a little smaller. 
The Trogon of this type from Sumatra and Borneo is said to differ from 
the Indian race, I have not been able to verify this statement. Should 
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