Suda sohaghin, Bengalese (male), Dr. Hamilton.
Hummesha Peeara («always thirsty ”’), Hindoos (male), Hamilton.

Cucheuchea, Bengalese (female), Hamilton.

Sakvor pho, Lepchas, Jerdon.

 

“Tris 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 darkly 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 lately observed 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 the day. I had the eggs of the Trogon brought me at
Darjeeling: they were said to have been taken from a hole in a tree ; and were two in number, white and
somewhat round. ‘There was no nest, it was stated—only some soft scrapings of decayed wood.” (Birds of
India, vol. 1. p. 203.) Capt. Beavan found it among heavy timber trees in the valley of Little Runjeet river,
Darjeeling.

In naming the present species after B. H. Hodgson, Esq., I was actuated by a desire to pay a just com-
pliment to a gentleman who, besides diligently fulfilling his official duties as British President in Nepaul,
laboured with the greatest assiduity and with the richest result, not only in the field of natural but in many
other departments of literature and science.

The Plate represents the two sexes, of the natural size. The plant is the Benthamia fragifera.