HARPACTES RUTILUS.

Malacca Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

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Mas.—Capite et gula NUYS ; dorso et uropygio rufescenti-fuscis

 

Male.—Wead and neck black ; al

1 the upper surface rich reddish cinnamon ; w

~ mes black, the
eoverts and secondaries crossed by numerous

i | 7 fine, regular, wavy lines of white ; primaries
margmed externally with white ; breast, all the under surface, and under tail-coverts fine

rosy scarlet ; two centre tail-feathers cinnamon-brown, slightly tipped with black ; the two
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next black ; the three outer ones SI CIS : :

_ nes on each side blackish brown, largely tipped with white ;
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sill < gape deep cobalt-blue ; the culmen broadly, and the margins narrowly bordered
vith black or horn- >; bare ski ve , cy iri

with black or horn-colour ; bare skin above the eye pale sky-blue ; irides dark brown ; feet

dusky blue.

Total length, 102 inches ; bill, 1; wing, 44; tail, 52.

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Female.—Uead and throat reddish brown ; upper surface as in the male, but darker ; breast
emnamon-brown ; abdomen and under tail-coverts very light ecimmamon-brown, washed with
a rosy hue; primaries and secondaries black, crossed by narrow ochreous bands ; two

centre tail-feathers cinnamon-brown, the remainder as in the male.

 

Exoveu has been said in my description of Harpactes Duvauceli respecting my reasons for applying the
term rutilus as a distinctive appellation for this bird, which is a native of the Malayan peninsula, and which,
so far as I am able to judge from an examination of a vast number of specimens, never has the fine scarlet
mark on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; independently of this difference, the present species is a larger
and more robust bird than the ZZ. Duvauceli; it moreover has a thicker bill, and the whole of the upper
plumage much more dense. Specimens frequently occur in collections sent from Singapore, but whrele
believe are generally made in Malacca; at this moment I have several of both sexes before me which I am
sure are fully adult, and yet there is not the slightest trace of the scarlet on the rump of UNE: of them ;
neither ye l seen any paren of it in the specimens contained in the collection at oe eben Museum,
nor in those in the Mince of the East India Company, and in those in the possession of ihe C. Eyton, Bisq.,
and others. In a letter transmitted to me by A. R. Wallace, Esq., that gentleman says, “ I think there are
btained males of two of them, I cannot be certain ; two
Of the smallest I have only a female in a bad

he skin of the gape are deep cobalt-blue ; the

four species of Trogons in Malacca, but as I only o
of them are of the average size, and the other two smaller.
state of plumage ; I believe it is @. rutilus. The bill ane t
culmen broadly, and the margins narrowly bordered with black :
eye is pale sky-blue ; the irides dark brown, and the feet dusky blue.

is the bird bere figured, and not the H. Duvaucel.
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or horn-colour. The bare skin above the
The bird referred to by Mr. Wallace

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