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HARPACTES HODGSONTI, Gould.

Hodeson’s Trogon.

Trogon Hodgsonn, Gould, Mon. Trog., pl. 34.

Harpactes Hodgsonii, Gould, Mon. Trog., syn. spec. Harpactes, sp. 6—McClell. Proc. Zool. S
3 . : i A . : : Soc.,

Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 71, Harpactes, sp. 3.—lid. C eet

at. of Spec., and Draw. of Mamm.

and Birds presented to Brit. Mus. by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., p. 56.—Blyth, Cat. of Birds in Mus. Asiat.

Soc. Gallows, (D. 80.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., tom. i. p. 151, Harpactes, sp. 3.—Horsf
Cat. of Birds in Mus. East-Ind. Comp., vol. ii. p. 713. -

Hodgsoni, Jerd. Birds of India, vol. i. p. 202.
Trogon (Harpactes) Hodgsonii, Gould, Mon. Trog., List of Plates, no. 34.
Harpactes erythrocephalus, Gray, List of Spec. of Birds in Brit. Mus., part ii. sect. i. p. 45.—Blyth, Cat. of Birds
in Mus. Asiat. Soc. Calcutta, app. p. 322. =o )
Pyrotrogon Hodgson, Bonap. Consp., vol. Zygod. p. 14. gen. 5 e. 39.—Cab. et Heine, Mus. Hein., Theil iv. p- 160.
Trogon dilectus, F. B. Hamilton’s MSS., vol. i. p. 63.
Suda sohaghin, Bengalese (male), Dr. Hamilton.

and Moore,

Hummesha Peeara (‘‘ always thirsty”), Hindoos (male), Hamilton.
Cuchcuchea, Bengalese (female), Hamilton.
Sakvor pho, Lepchas, Jerdon.

 

Mr. Jerpon and some other ornithologists are of opinion that the Trogons to which I have assigned the
specific appellations of erythrocephalus and IHodgsonii are identical; but, as I have pointed out in my
‘Monograph of the Trogonide,’ they differ considerably in size, and somewhat in their colouring ; and, until
I have further evidence than has yet been adduced of their identity, I shall continue to regard them as con-
stituting two species. However this may be, the accompanying figures were taken from specimens killed in
the great Himalayan range, and consequently represent the two sexes of the true Harpactes Hodgson.

The following interesting extract from Mr. Jerdon’s valuable work the ‘Birds of India’ comprises
nearly all that has been recorded respecting the history of this fine bird :—

“This handsome Trogon,” says Mr. Jerdon, “ is found in the Himalayas, from Nepaul eastward, in
Assam, Sylhet, Arrakan, and Tenasserim. It prefers hilly places at from 2000 to 4500 feet. At Darjeeling
I found it chiefly at about 4000 feet, frequenting dark-shaded valleys and flying from tree to tree at no great
elevation, or a few of them together, keeping near the same spot, making sallies every now and then, and
seizing insects on the wing. It feeds on Coleoptera chiefly. Tickell, who ey ones it on the
Tenasserim hills, about 3000 feet and upwards, says that it flies in small troops, is active and vociferous in
the morning, solitary and quiet during the heat of I had the eggs of the Trogon brought me at
Darjeeling: they were said to have been taken fro ere two in number, white and
somewhat round, ‘There was no nest, it was stated ;

The male has the head, neck, and breast deep blood-rec
back and upper tail-coverts cin
s of black and white ; primaries black,
tipped with black; the next on each
line down the shaft on the inner web,

the day.
m a hole in a tree; and w
only some soft scrapings of decayed wood.”

1, separated from the rich scarlet of the under
namon-brown, brightest on the rump ; wing-

surface by a narrow line of white ; hee
coverts and tertiaries striated with fine wavy line margined on thei
ail-feathers rich chestnut-brown,

ase, of the outer web, and a fine

k, with the basal half of the outer we
hite, which extends some length down the

outer webs with white ; two centre t
side black, with two thirds, from the b
rich chestnut-brown ; the next on each side blac
the three lateral feathers on each side black, largely tipped with w
outer web; “bill deep smalt-blue, becoming black along ee and
orbital skin deep lavender-blue ; legs and feet pale lavender (Jerdon).

- he Cc C 3 I 9

1 > WI ack and brown instead of black
and the undulations on the wing black <¢

b rich chestnut-brown ;
at the tip; irides chestnut-brown ;

yn-brown, palest on the
breast, >]

: on, separate
rump and upper tail-cove cl

the male, by a narrow crescent of white ;

and white.

Phe P he t The plant is the Benthamia fragiferd.
The Plate represents the two sex

es, of the natural size.

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