HARPACTES MACKLOTI. 
Macklot’s Trog’on. 
Specific Character. 
Mas. Similis Harpacti Reinwardti, sed valde minor. 
Male. —Head, neck, and a broad band across the chest olive-green; back metallic or shining 
green ; middle and greater wing-coverts, tertiaries, and outer margins of the secondaries 
crossed with fine lines of golden yellow; tail dark green, tinged with blue ; the three outer 
feathers on each side tipped and externally margined with white ; irides blackish brown ; 
naked orbits blue; space posterior to the gape light green ; on the lower eyelids a spot of 
yellowish white. 
Total length 10^ inches, bill 91 lines, wing 5 inches, tail, 61. 
Female. —Similar in colour, but with the transverse stripes on the wings smaller and paler. 
Trogon Machloti, Mull. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch., 1835, p. 336, tab. 8. fig. 1. 
Harpactes Machloti, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. iii. App. p. 4.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. 
Av., tom. i. p. 151, Harpactes, sp. 10.—Gould, Birds of Asia, part xvii. pi. 5. 
Apalharpactes Machloti, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 17. gen. 5 e. 44. 
Hapalarpactes Machloti, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 163. 
The H. Machloti is much inferior in size lo the II. Reinwardti. By some ornithologists they might be 
considered races of the same species; but I have never seen races differing in size to such an extent. That 
they represent each other in the respective islands they inhabit is certain, and that we are right in 
considering them distinct there can be no doubt. 
“ I have named this species,” says Dr. Muller, “ in memory of my unfortunate friend and companion for 
many years, Macklot. It is smaller than the Trogon Reinwardti of Temminck, but very much resembles it. 
The chin, the throat, the whole of the belly, and the under tail-coverts are yellow, on a white ground; the 
remainder of the head and neck, and a broad band across the chest, olive-green; the back has a beautiful 
metallic lustre of bottle-green, with a large rust-coloured spot on the uropygium. The middle and larger 
upper wing-coverts, the tertiaries, and the outer margins of the secondaries are adorned with fine transverse 
golden-yellow stripes; tail dark green, with a steel-blue tint; the six middle feathers equal in length, and 
one-coloured; the three outer on each side have white terminal points, and each has a white margin 
along the outer edge; toes and nails red; eyes blackish brown; naked orbits beautiful blue; space 
immediately behind the angle of the mouth light green ; lower eyelids with a yellowish-white spot. 
“Total length 10^ in., French measure; tail 5^-; the coral-red bill, from the angle of the mouth to the 
point, 9~ lines long, 7 lines broad at the base ; expanse of the wings 1 foot 2 inches and 9 lines. 
“ The female is much the same as to colour, but has not the rusty-brown spot on the uropygium, and the 
yellow stripes on her wings are smaller and fainter. 
“ The bird was found in the woods on the southern side of the mountains of Singallang in Sumatra.” 
Thus much only has been written respecting this bird by Dr. Muller, in whose opinion that it is 
distinct from H. Reinwardti I fully concur; as yet, however, I have never met with an example bearing 
the rusty-brown spot on the uropygium described by him. Can this be a mark of immaturity, and 
Dr. Muller unconsciously have taken his description from a specimen which had not yet completed its 
second moult ? 
The figures are of the size of life. The plant is the Plectocomia Assamica. 
