HARPACTES FASCIATUS. 
Fasciated Trog*on, 
Specific Character. 
Troy, capite, gutture pectoreque fuliginoso-nigris, hoc torque lato albo; ventre coccineo; dorso 
et supracaudalibus sordide arenaceo-brunneis; scapularibus et tectricibus alarum majoribus 
nigris albo flexuose fasciatis; remigibus nigris, pogoniis externis albo Jimbriatis; rectri- 
cibus duabus intermediis subcastaneis nigro apiculatis, proximis duabus utrinque nigris 
prope rhachin brunneis, reliquis ad basin nigris, ad apicem albis. 
Fcem. Capite, dorso, gutture pectoreque sordide brunneis; ventre luteo; pectore hand torquato; 
scapularibus nigro brunneoque fasciatis. 
Rostrum nigrum, mandibularum basi et regione ophthalmicd nudd caeruleis. 
Male. —Head, neck, and breast sooty black, bounded below by a narrow crescent of white 
separating the sooty black of the breast from the rich carmine-red of the rest of the 
under surface ; upper wing-coverts orange-brown, becoming paler and brighter on the 
rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings black, the coverts and secondaries crossed with 
numerous fine irregular bars of white, and the primaries narrowly edged with the same 
hue externally ; the two centre tail-feathers chestnut, narrowly tipped with black, the 
next on each side chestnut at the base and black at the tip, the chestnut advancing 
in a bifurcated form towards the tip of the outer web; the next on each side 
entirely black, the three lateral feathers on each side black at the base, largely 
tipped with white, the white advancing on the margin of the outer web nearly 
to the base, and the black along the shaft to the tip ; irides deep brown ; bill 
and orbits fine deep cobalt-blue ; legs light blue. 
Female. —Differs from the male in having the head and neck brown, with a yellowish 
tinge on the chest ; the under surface rich ochraceous, and the bars on wings 
ochraceous brown instead of white. 
Total length about 12 inches; wing 5. 
Trogon fasciatus. Gm. S. N. i. p. 405 : Penn. Ind. Zool. p. 35, pL iv. 
-— malabaricus. Gould, P. Z. $. 1834, p. 26.—Id. Monogr. Trogon. pi. 31.—Gray, 
Gen. B. i. p. 71. 
Harpactes malabaricus. Sw. Classif. B. ii. p. 337.—Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 44. 
__ fasciatus. Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 80.—Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 
E. I. Co. ii. p. 714.—Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. vi.—Jerdon, B. Ind. i. p. 201.— 
Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 422. 
Pyrotrogon fasciatus. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 156. 
Kufni Clvuri, of some Hindoos. 
Kurna, of the Mahrattas. 
Kakerni FLukhi, of the Canarese. 
Rantvam Kondea, of the Cingalese (Kelaart). 
The Malabar Trogon is found in Southern India and Ceylon, where it represents the Malayan Harpactes 
kasumba. The male differs from that of the last-named species in its smaller size and sooty-black head 
and neck; while the female of H. fasciatus wants the breast-band, which is conspicuous in the hen of 
H. kasumba. 
