HARPACTES ORESKIOS. 
Mountain Trog*on. 
Specific Character. 
Mas. Capite, gutture pectoreque lutescentibus; ventre aurantiaco in medio, et ad crissum jlavo. 
Foem. Capite, pectore dorsoque sordide brunneis; ventre jlavo, ad latera mbaurantiaco. 
Male. —Crown of the head, throat, and chest greenish yellow; back and upper tail-coverts rich 
deep chestnut; wings black, their centres rayed with strong bars of white; primaries 
margined externally with white ; two centre tail-feathers rich deep chestnut, crossed at the 
tip with a narrow band of black, the two next on each side black; three outer feathers 
black at the base and white at the tip ; breast and flanks rich orange, becoming paler on 
the belly and vent; thighs black; bill black at the tip, yellow at the base; legs and feet 
flesh-colour. 
Total length 10 to IO7 inches, bill \, wing 4f, tail 67. 
Female. —Head, chest, and all the upper surface dull brown, becoming richer on the lower part 
of the back and the two middle tail-feathers; the transverse marks on the centre of the 
wings yellow instead of white, and the under surface yellow, inclining to orange only on 
the flanks. 
Trogon oreskios, Temm. PI. Col. 181.—Id. Mon. ofTrog. in PI. Col.—Steph. Cont. of Shaw’s 
Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. part 1, p. 220.—Less. Traite d’Orn., p. 121.—Gould, Mon. ofTrog., 
pi. 36. 
Harpactes Gouldii, Swains. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. p. 337. 
- oreskios, Gould, Mon. Trog., syn. spec. Harpactes, sp. 8.—Gray and Mitch. Gen. of 
Birds, vol. i. p. 71, Harpactes, sp. 8.—Gray, List, of Spec, of Birds in Coll. Brit. Mus., 
part ii. sect. i. Fissirostres, p. 45.—Blyth, Cat. of Birds in Mus. Asiat. Soc. Calcutta, p. 80. 
—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., tom. i. p. 151, Harpactes, sp. 8.—Horsf. and Moore, Cat. 
of Birds in Mus. East Ind. Comp., vol. ii. p. 716.—Gould, Birds of Asia, part xvii. pi. 3. 
—- oreskios?, Wald, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 538. 
Trogon (Harpactesj oreskios, Gould, Mon. Trog., List of Plates, sp. 36. 
Oreskios Gouldi, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 14, gen. 5 d. 41. 
Orescius Gouldi, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 161. 
The native country of the Harpactes oreskios is Java, where it appears, from the number of skins sent to 
Europe, to be tolerably common, and where all the specimens in my collection have been obtained. I have 
never seen the. bird from Malasia, Tenasserim, or any portion of the Malay peninsula ; but it is stated by 
Viscount Walden, in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society above referred to, to have been found by 
Captain Beavan at Kookarit Island, Salween River; his Lordship, however, qualifies this statement with a 
mark of doubt as to the identity of the bird there observed with the present species. It is to be regretted 
that neither Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles nor Dr. Horsfield, by both of whom the Harpactes oreskios must 
