HARPACTES ORESKIOS.

Mountain Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

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Male.—Crown of the head, throat, and chest greenish yellow ; back
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; cP and upper tail-coverts rich
deep chestnut; wings black, their centres ray

ed with strong bars of white; primaries
| | two centre tail-feathers rich deep chestnut, crossed at the
tip with a narrow band of black, 1

margined externally with white ;

1€ two next on each side black; three outer feathers

black at the base and white at the ti
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¢ 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 10; inches, bill 3, wing 43, tail 6+.
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. Pl. Col. 181.—Id. Mon. of Trog. in Pl. Col.—Steph. Cont. of Shaw’s
Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. part 1, p. 220.—Less. Traité d’Orn., p. 121.—Gould, Mon. of Trog.,
pl. 36.

Harpactes Gouldzi, Swains. Class. of Birds, vol. 1. 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 u. sect. 1. Lssirostres, p. 45.—Blyth, Cat. of Birds in Mus. Asiat. Soc. Calcutta, p. 80.
—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Ay., tom. i. p. 151, Harpactes, sp. 8.—Horsf. and Moore, Cat.
of Birds in Mus. East Ind. Comp., vol. 1. p. 716.—Gould, Birds of Asia, part xvi. pl. 3.

_________ oreskios ?, Wald. in Proc. of Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 538.

Trogon (Harpactes) oreskvs, Gould, Mon. Trog., List of Plates, sp. 36.

Oreskios Gouldi, Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zygod., p. 14, gen. 9 d. 41.

Orescius Gouldi, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil tv. p. 161.

 

skios is Java, where it appears, from the number of skins sent to
ll the specimens in my collection have been obtained. I have
or any portion of the Malay peninsula; but it is stated by

ty above referred to, to have been found by

Tue native country of the Harpactes ore
Europe, to be tolerably common, and where a
never seen the bird from Malasia, Tenasserim, oy
Viscount Walden, in the ee a the bea cane ae ie
Captain Beavan at Kookarit Island, Salween fuer; Dts ship,

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mark of doubt as to tl
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