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SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

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Mas.—Capite et guld nigris ; dorso fusco :
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Male.—Head and throat jet-black ; breast, under surface

’ rump and upper tail- overts of e

nest scarlet ; back red lis] a “aka ene
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| primaries margined
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webs with white; two centre tail-feathers dark cinn

two next on each side blackish brown ;

at the base of their external

amon-brown, tipped with black ; the

the three outer ones on each side bl
the base, and largely tipped with white ; bill, o

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ackish brown at

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| “ | ape, and a naked Space over the eye ultra-
marine blue ; irides reddish brown ; feet blue. .

Total length, 93 inches ; bill, 1; wing, 4; tail, 5+.

Female.—Head dark brown; back dark cj os :
é kK wn ; back dark cinnamon brown, becoming lighter and washed with

scarlet on the lower part of the back and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts and secondaries

alternately barred with ochreous and black ; primaries dull black, margined externally with

greyish white ; under surface orange-brown, becoming lighter and washed with scarlet on

NAMNNENACID

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the lower part of the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; two centre tail-feathers light cinna-

mon-brown throughout their entire length, the remainder as in the male.

 

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Trogon Duvaucelii, Temm. Pl. Col. 291.—Gould, Mon. of Trogons, pl. 32.

+ Harpactes rutilus, Gray, List of Spec. of Birds in Coll. Brit. Mus., p. 44.—Gray and Mitch.
Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p. 71, Harpactes, sp. 5.—Blyth, Cat. of Birds in Mus. Asiat. Soc.
Calcutta, p. 80.—Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 150, Harpactes, sp. 1.—Horsf. and Moore,
Cat. of Birds in Mus. East Ind. Comp., vol. i. p. 712.

Trogon rutilus, Vieill. 2nde édit. du Nouy. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. vii. p. 313.—Ib. Ency.
Méth. Orn., part ii. p. 1858.—LeVaill. Hist. Nat. des Courouc., pl. 14.

Trogon cinnamomeus, Temm. Mon. of Trog. in Pl. Col.

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Harpactes Duvaucelii, Swains. Class. of Birds, vol. i. p. 337.
Trogon (Harpactes) Duvauceli, Gould, Mon. of Trogons, List of Plates, sp. 32.
Trogon fasciatus, var. 8, Lath. Gen. Hist. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 218.

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ae . eee ir . » LeVaillant in bis
By most ornithologists the present species 1s considered identical with the bird figured by LeVz
: Sis: : pT PTT ere gure does not
“Histoire Naturelle des Couroucous” under the name of Z7ogon rutilus ; but as that fig |
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must have been coloured after the artist’s fancy, I conside1

eree wi ; member of the family, and esate
agree with any me y; » che binines: represented. Vieillot’s

M. Temminck perfectly justified in giving a new specific name t :
description is equally as faulty as LeVaillant’s figure, for ie ae er tail-coverts of a lively red,
BP of ic bird is of a sombre green; the back, scapularies, rump and a the Baden scapularies
and the six middle tail-feathers of the same hue ;—whereas she eas . ae Sane tail-feathers only of a
of a light cinnamon-brown, the upper tail-coverts fine scarlet, and the tw ;

faillant’s artis cs had this or some ne
cinnamon-brown. LeVaillant’s artist doubtless 1 ae
a real specimen, and Vieillo

his description by stating that the

 

arly allied species in view; but the

s description was probably taken
colouring could not have been copied from