P I C A R I M. 
TROGONIM. 
Genus HAEPACTES. 
Bill very short and broad ; upper mandible deep ; culmen much curved, the tip with a small 
notch; gonys short, deep, and much ascending. Nostrils basal, narrow, situated in a membrane, 
which is protected by bristles. Chin furnished with weak bristles. Wings short, the primaries 
much decurved ; the 4th and 5th quills the longest, the 1st rather short. Tail broad, much 
graduated, even at the tip. Tarsus half-feathered ; inner anterior toe slightly longer than the 
outer ; inner posterior toe much longer than the outer one. 
Eye surrounded by a naked skin. 
HAEPACTES PASCIATUS. 
(THE CEYLONESE TROGON.) 
Trogon fasciatus, Forster, Ind. Zool. p. 34, pi. 5 (1781); Gm. ed. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. pt. 1, 
' p. 405 (1788). 
Trogon ceylonensis, Briss. Om. vol. ii. p. 19 (1763). 
Troqon malabaricus, Gould, Mon. Trogonidse, 1st ed. pi. 31 (1838). . 
Harpactes malabaricus, Sw. Classif. Birds, vol. ii. p. 337 (1839) ; Jerd. Cat. B. S. India, Madr. 
Journ. 1840, xi. p. 232. 
Harpactes fasciatus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 80 (1849); Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. 
p. 118 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 171 ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. 
B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 714 (1856); Legge, J. A. S. (Ceylon Br.), 1870-71, p. 35; 
Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 422 ; Hume, Str. Eeath. 1873, p. 432, et 1876, p. 498 ; 
Ball, ibid. 1874, p. 385, et 1876, p. 231 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 13, et 1875, p. 281 ; 
Bourdillon, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 382 ; Fairbank, ibid. 1877, p. 393. 
Pyrotrogon fasciatus. Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 156 (1862). 
Per Band-Kurulcu, Forster ; TheFasciated Gurucui, Gmelin; The Fasciated Trogon, Kelaart; 
Bed Flycatcher, Europeans in Ceylon. 
Kufni churi. Hind. ; Karra, Mahrattas ; Kakarne hakki, Canarese. 
Kama nila kurulla, Banwan kondea, Ginni kurulla, Sinhalese. 
Adult male and female. Length 10-5 to 11-2 inches; wing 4-4 to 5-0 (average about 4-7) ; tail 5-4 to 6-0, outer- 
most feather 3’0 shorter ; tarsus 0'55 to 0‘7 ; inner anterior toe 0-6, its claw (straight) 0 3 , inner posterior toe 
0 - 4 ; bill to gape 0‘9 to 1'05. 
Wmnles sliahtly the smaller of the sexes. .... ... , T , , ,, ,, 
STwl-bfown or reddish brown, in some with a pale outer circle; bill, orbital skm, eyelid and gape French blue the 
orbital skin being the palest; culmen and tips of mandibles black; legs and feet delicate greyish blue, claws 
bluish horn. 
Male Head, nape, face, and chin dull black, paling gradually to dark slate on the fore neck ^d npper part of the 
chest; hind neck partially denuded of feathers; back and scapulars yellowish olive-brown, paling into rut 
