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HARPACTES MACKLOTL
Macklot’s Trogon.

Trogon Mackloti, Mill. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch., 1835, p. 336. tab. 8. fig. 1.

| Harpactes Mackloti, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. iii. App. p. 4.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Ay., tom. i p. 151
Harpactes, sp. 10. 2
| Apalharpactes Mackloti, Bonap. Consp., vol. Zygod. p. 17. gen. 5e. 44.

| Hapalarpactes Mackloti, Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p. 163.

 

«T wave named this species,” says Dr. Mller, ‘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
uniformly-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; eye 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 4 in., French measure; tail 54; the coral-red bill, from the angle of the mouth to the
, 7 lines broad at the base; expanse of the wings 1 foot 2 inches and 9 lines.

point, 9 lines long
but has not the rusty-brown spot on the uropygium, and the

“The female is much the same as to colour,
yellow stripes on her wings are smaller and fainter.

“The bird was found in the woods on the southern

Thus much has been written respecting this bird by

distinct from. H. Reinwardti, I fully concur ; as yet, however,
the rusty-brown mark on the uropygium. Can this be a mark of immaturity, and Dr. Miller uncon-

sciously have taken his description from a specimen which had not yet completed Hs second moult ?

The H. Mackloti is much inferior in size to the H. Reinwardti. By some they might be considered races
of the same species; but I have never seen races differing u size to such an a That ae
each other in the respective islands they inhabit is certain, and that we are right in considering

side of the mountains of Singallang in Sumatra.”
Dr. Miiller, with whose opinion in considering it
I have never met with an example bearing

distinct species there can be no doubt.
. ‘ i of the Derby Museum at
As in the case of the H. Reinwardti, 1 have been obliged by the ee : y
1 i 1 ° work.
Liverpool with the loan of examples of this species, 1 furtherance of the ee
the Plectocomia Assamica.

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