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TACCOCUA LESCHEN AULTI. 
was coiled away neatly, even to the tip of its tail ; it had one deep cut across the hrain-region nearly severing 
its head in two. (( 
Jerdon writes that in India it is seen much about white ants’ nests, whence its Telugu name, the 
appellation of Parrot being given to it from its red bill.” 
I know nothing of its nesting; but Mr. Bligh writes me that a female killed during the S.W. monsoon 
showed signs in its breast-plumage of having lately incubated, which points to the breeding-season being in 
June and July. 
Fam. TROGONIDJE. 
Bill short, stout, very wide at the gape, and consequently somewhat triangular ; culmen 
curved. Nostrils concealed by bristles. Tail of twelve feathers, long and broad, sometimes 
surmounted by a long caudal train. Tarsus very short ; feet small and zygodactyle. 
