HARPACTES KASUMBA. 
Kasumba Trog*on. 
Specific Character. 
Mas. Vertice, gutture pectoreque nigris, hoc postice torque albo; abdomine et strigd inde ductd 
nuchamque cingente coccineis. 
Foem. Magis obscura ; capite guttureque saturate grisescenti-brunneis; pectore arenaceo-brunneo. 
Male. —Head, throat, and chest jet-black; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts deep rose-red, 
separated from the black of the chest by a crescentic band of white ; from below the eye 
round the back of the neck a narrow band of red; back and upper tail-coverts yellowish 
brown; wings black, the coverts and tertiaries transversely rayed with fine irregular lines 
of white, and the shafts of the primaries white at the base ; two middle tail-feathers chestnut- 
brown, tipped with black ; the two rest on each side wholly black, the remainder black at 
the base, and white for the rest of their length, with dark shafts; orbits light violet-blue, 
becoming of a more fleshy hue near the eyes ; bill blue ; gape light violet-blue ; irides dark 
brown; feet brown. 
Total length about 12 inches, bill 1, wing (h, tail (H ■ 
Female. —Head and throat greyish brown ; white band on the breast much less conspicuous, 
under surface sandy brown ; markings of the wings bolder, and of a sandy hue, instead of 
pure white. 
Trogon kasumba, Ratfl. Linn. Trans, vol. xiii. p. 282. 
- fasciatus, Temm. PI.Col. 321.—Id. Mon.ofTrog.inPl. Col.—Less. Traited’Orn. p. 121. 
- Temminckii, Gould, in Proc. ofZool. Soc., partiii. 1835, p. 29.—Id. Mon. ofTrog. pi.29. 
-- flagrans, Kuhl, Tijdsch. Nat. Gesch. 1835, p. 336. 
Harpactes kasumba, Blyth, Cat. of Birds in Mus. Asiat. Soc. Calcutta, p. 80.-—Gould, Birds of 
Asia, part viii. pi. 6.—Horsf. and Moore, Cat. of Birds in Mus. East Ind. Comp., vol. ii. 
p. 715.—Sclat. in Proc. Zool. Soc., part xxvii. 1859, p. 460, and 1863, p. 213. 
- Temminckii, Swains. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. p. 337.'—Gould, Mon. of Trog., syn. 
spec. Harpactes, sp. 1.— Gray, List of Birds in Brit. Mus., part ii. sec. i. Fissirostres, p. 44. 
—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 71, Harpactes, sp. 4, and vol. iii. App. p. 4, 
app. to p. 71.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., tom. i, p. 151, Harpactes, sp. 4. 
Trogon (Harpactes) Temminckii, Gould, Mon. ofTrog., List of Plates, sp. 29. 
“Trogon Condea, Cuv.,” Blyth, Cat. of Birds in Mus. Asiat. Soc. Calcutta, p. 80. 
Pgrotrogon kasumba, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil. iv. p. 158. 
Kasumba of the Sumatrans. 
The countries inhabited by this species are Malacca, Sumatra, and Borneo, from all of which I have 
specimens in my own collection. 
In a letter received from Mr. Wallace in 1856, when he was engaged in exploring the Islands of the 
