HARPACTES ARDENS. 
Rosy-breasted Trog*on. 
Specific Character. 
Mas. Vertice, nucha plumisque auricularibus intense sanguineo-rubris; pectore rosaceo. 
Fcem. Vertice genisque intensefuscis; pectore et abdomine pallide ochraceo-fuscis. 
Male. —Head, back of the neck, and ear-coverts dark blood-red, approaching to black on the 
forehead and ear-coverts; throat black; back and upper tail-coverts cinnamon ; wing- 
coverts and secondaries black, crossed with fine irregular lines of white ; primaries black, 
margined externally with white ; two centre tail-feathers reddish chestnut, tipped with 
black; the two next on each side whollv black; the three outer ones blackish brown at 
base, largely tipped with white ; the shafts and a series of tooth-like markings on the inner 
webs blackish brown; chest delicate rose-colour, the remainder of the undersurface scarlet; 
“ bill bright yellow, the base green ; ophthalmic region ultramarine blue; inside of the 
mouth yellow ; feet olive-green ; the palms and claws yellow ; irides brown.” 
Total length 12 inches, bill It, wing 5f, tail 8. 
Female. —Crown of the head, cheeks, and upper surface dark einnamon-hrown; throat clouded 
with blackish brown ; breast and all the undersurface light sandy-brown, becoming of a 
yellower hue on the under tail-coverts; wing-coverts and secondaries blackish brown, 
crossed with lines of sandy brown; tail as in the male. 
Trogon ardens , Temm. PI. Col. 404.—Id. Mon. of Trog. in PI. Col.—Gould, Mon. of Trog., 
pi. 35. 
- (Harpactes) ardens, Gould, Mon. of Trog., List of Plates, no. 35. 
Harpactes ardens, Gould, Mon. of Trog., Syn. Spec., gen. Harpactes, sp. 7.—Gray, List, of 
Spec, of Birds in Coll. Brit. Mus., part ii. sec. i. Fissirostres, p. 44.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. 
of Birds, vol. i. p. 70, Harpactes, sp. 7.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., tom. i. p. 151, Har¬ 
pactes, sp. 7.—Cassin, Unit. States Expl. Exp. Mamm. and Orn., 1858, p. 229.—Gould, 
Birds of Asia, part xiv. pi. 7. 
Pyrotrogon ardens, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zygod. p. 14, gen. 5, c. 38.—Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., 
Theil iv. p. 159. 
Harpactes rodiosternus, Peale, Zool. Unit. States Expl. Exp., Birds, 1st edit. vol. viii. 1848, 
p. 166.—Hartl. Wieg. Archiv. tom. viii. pt. l.p. 112 
The Rosy-breasted Trogon is adorned with so many beautiful markings, of which the brilliant colouring of 
its bill and the extremely delicate rosy hue of its breast are the most conspicuous, that it almost, if not 
entirely, outvies every other species of its genus. It was first described by M. Temminck, with the specific 
appellation of ardens , from a female in the collection of the Baron Laugier de Chartrouse, of Paris ; this 
