TROGON 
Hodg’son’s Trog*on. 
Head, neck, breast and all the under surface deep blood red ; back and upper tail-coverts 
sandy brown ; centre of the wing striated with fine wavy lines of black and white ; pri- 
maries black, margined on their outer webs with white ; two centre tail-feathers rich < 
chestnut brown, tipped with black ; the next on each side black, with two-thirds from the 
base of the outer web, and a fine line down the side of the shaft on the inner web rich 
chestnut brown ; the next on each side black with the basal half of the outer web rich 
chestnut brown ; the three lateral feathers on each side black largely tipped with white, 
which extends for some length down the outer web ; bill black ; feet olive. 
Total length, 13i inches; wing, 5i; tail, 8 ; tarsi, i. 
In the letter-press accompanying the preceding species (^Trog. erythrocephalus) I have stated the range of that 
bird to extend from Rangoon to the rich valley of Nepaul, believing as I then did that the bird here figured 
was identical with that species. At the time that account was published I had only seen a single specimen of 
the bird inhabiting the latter country ; the lapse of two years has afforded me opportunities of inspecting oticr 
specimens from this highly interesting and little explored region, an examination of which has convinced itic 
that the Nepaulese bird is specifically distinct. I have also gained some further information respecting llic 
range of T. erythrocephalus, which I can now positively state to extend to the Islands of the Indian Ocean m 
well as Rangoon, specimens having been forwarded to me by M. Temmlnck, who received them direct fri«n 
Sumatra. , 
In naming the j)resent species after Mr. Hodgson of Nepaul, I am desirous of paying a slight complimetC 
to a gentleman, who, besides diligently fulfilling his high official duties, is labouring with assiduity in the fidil 
of science, and that too, in a country, the interesting nature of whose productions will crown his labours \>ilh 
success ; and whose forthcoming work, on the Zoology of those regions, cannot fail to be of the hlgUvi 
interest. 
The T. Hodgsonii differs from T. erythrocephalus in being considerably larger in all its proportions, paru. 
cularly in the size and length of the tail, while at the same time it possesses a smaller and more cofi- 
pressed bill ; the colouring also in all the specimens I have seen is less vivid, particularly in the blood 
which is much duller on the head and chest ; in several specimens the scarlet bad entirely given way to 
a dull grey colouring, which would appear to have been the consequence of the bird having just performed 
the task of incubation. 
I subjoin the measurements of the two species in order that their differences may be more clearly per- 
ceptible. 
Trog on Hodgsonii. . . Total length ISi- inches ; wing, 5i ; tail, 8 ; tarsi,* f. 
Trogon erythrocephalus. Total length 1 li inches ; wing, 5 ; tail, 6i ; tarsi, f. 
The female so closely resembles the female of T. erythrocephalus, that a description is unnecessary. 
Habitat. Nepaul. 
