722 Mr. W. L. Sclater on Birds collected 
below, the breast is bufly, mottled and irregularly barred 
with green and dusky. 
[“ Boscli-lourie 39 at Knysna; “Trogon” of the Trans¬ 
vaal ; “ Sansobi” of the Zulus. 
I have taken this Trogon in the Knysna, in Zululand and the 
North-Eastern Transvaal ; it was said to occur at Legogot, 
though I did not myself come across it; but I both saw and 
heard it in the Beira and Gorongoza districts of Portuguese 
East Africa. Where found it is fairly plentiful, and is seen 
either singly or in pairs; it is essentially a bird of the woods 
and forests, never being seen in ordinary u bush-veld,’'’ but 
occasionally in tree-fringed streams and rivers in forested 
districts. It is often seen flitting through the trees with a 
rapid twisting flight, the green back shining in the sunlight; 
but when perched it is extremely difficult to detect unless the 
watcher catches sight of the belly, the rest of the colouring 
harmonizing so w r ell with the foliage of the trees. The cry is 
only uttered in the summer season, the bird being apparently 
silent during the rest of the year; it is, I believe, only uttered 
by the male and sounds like a “ goo ” several times repeated. 
It can be easily mistaken for the cooing of Haplopelia larvata , 
except that with the Trogon it never varies in tone. It can 
be heard at a good distance and is distinctly ventriloquial, 
the performer often being quite close when it sounds a 
distance away. The food of this bird consists of insects, 
which I have seen it catch on the wing, darting out from a 
fixed perch. I have never succeeded in finding the nest, but 
it apparently has two broods, as I have shot the young in 
changing plumage in February and again in April, the latter 
probably representing the broods hatched in January and 
February and the former those about October. 
The soft parts of the adult are :— 
B . Irides rich brown ; bare skin round eyes blue, bare skin 
at back of eye, base of beak, and throat green and yellow ; 
bill lemon-yellow at base, greenish yellow at tip ; legs and 
toes whitish flesh-coloured. 
$ . As in the male, except the bare patch on throat yellow, 
and legs and toes browner. 
