HARPACTES HODGSONI, Gould . 
Hodgson's Trogon. 
Specific Character. 
Mas. Capite, collo, pectore corporeque subtus Intense sanguineis. 
Foem. Capite, collo, pectore corporeque superiore cinnamomeo-brunneis. 
Male .—Head, neck, and breast deep blood-red, separated from the rich scarlet of the under sur¬ 
face by a crescentic mark of white; back and upper tail-coverts cinnamon-brown, brightest 
on the rump; wing-coverts and tertiaries striated with fine wavy lines of black and white ; 
primaries 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 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 some length down the outer web ; “ bill deep smalt-blue, becoming black along the 
culmen and at the tip ; irides chestnut-brown; orbital skin deep lavender-blue; legs and 
feet pale lavender ” (Jerdon). 
Total length 131 inches, wing 51, bill tail 8. 
Female. —Head, neck, breast, and upper surface cinnamon-brown, palest on the rump and upper 
tail-coverts ; under surface pale crimson, separated from the cinnamon of the throat, as in 
the male, by a narrow crescent of white ; undulations on the wing black and brown instead 
of black and white. 
Trogon Hodgsonii, Gould, Mon. of Trog., pi. 34. 
Harpactes Hodgsonii, Gould, Mon. of Trog., Syn. Spec. Harpaetes, sp. 6.—McClell. inProc.Zool. 
Soc., part vii. p. 166.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 71, Harpactes, sp. 3.— 
Gray, Cat. of Spec., and Draw, of Mamm. and Birds presented to Brit. Mus. by B. H. 
Hodgson, Esq., p. 56.—Blyth, Cat. of Birds in Mus. Asiat. Soc. Calcutta, p. 80.—Bonap. 
Consp. Gen. Av. tom. i. p. 151, Harpactes, sp. 3.—Horsf. and Moore, Cat. of Birds in 
Mus. East Ind. Comp., vol. ii. p. 713. 
Hodgsoni, Jerd. Birds of India, vol. i. p. 202.—Beav. in Ibis, 1865, p. 407.—Blyth, 
in Ibis, 1866, p. 342. 
Trogon (Harpactes) Hodgsonii, Gould, Mon. of Trog., List of Plates, sp. 34. 
Harpactes erythrocephalus, Gray, List of Spec, of Birds in Brit. Mus., part ii. sect. i. Fissirostres, 
p. 45.—Blyth, Cat. of Birds in Mus. Asiat. Soc. Calcutta, app. p. 322. 
Pyrotrogon Hodgsoni, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 14. gen. 5e. 39.—Cab. et Heine, Mus. 
Hein., Theil iv. p. 160. 
“ Trogon dilectus, F. B. Hamilton’s MSS., vol. i. p. 63,” Horsf. and Moore, Cat of Birds in 
Mus. East Ind. Comp., vol. ii. p. 713. 
