TROGON TEMMINCKII.

Temminck’s Trogon.

Sprorric Cuaracren.

Mas.
que nigris, hoc postice tor gd

que nigris, postice torque albo; abdomine, strigd inde
gente cocciners; dorso tectricif ore é
brunneis ; alis nigris strits ¢ 2 naira ae ee
aS s ) S Stra fr Om OM ADE , , ,
9 ws transversis albis vix numerosis ornatis ; rectrictbus duabus inter-

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nieris, duabus proximis utri ee a ; is
514s, S proxemis utrinque nigris, reliquis ad basin nIgTis

7 rog. vertice, gutture, pectore
ducta nuchamque

mediis castaneis ad apicem
apicem versus late albis.

Fem. Magers obscura: capi
ao > Capite gultureque saturate erises 1S}
alarum strigis brunneis + t q € grisescento-brunneis ; pectore arenaceo-brunneo ;
stra, as ; torque pectorali cing
Q 3 torque pectorali cinguloque nuchali nullis.

Male. p op of the head, throat, and chest black; a crescent-shaped band of white separates

the chest from the breast, which, with the abdomen and vent, is scarlet, and from which
extends a narrow band of the same colour round the nape of the neck; back and upper
tail-coverts yellowish brown; wings black, transversely rayed with fine lines of white
rather thinly disposed ; two middle tail-feathers chestnut brown tipped with black, the
two next oneach side wholly black, the remainder black at the base and largely tipped
with white ; naked skin round the eyes fine blue, which extends over nearly fie whole of
the bill, becoming darker at the tip; feet brown.

Female. Differs from the male in being destitute of the nuchal and pectoral bands, in the head
and throat being dark brown inclining to grey instead of being wholly black, in the
breast being sandy brown, and in the markings of the wings being brown instead of
white ; in the remainder of the plumage she resembles the male, except that the colours
are more obscure.

Total length, about 12 inches; weng, 64; tadl, 64.

Trogon Temminckii. Gould, Proceedings of Zool. Soc., Part LI.
fasciatus. Temm., Pl. Col., 321.

 

 

Arrer a careful examination I have been induced to differ from the opinion of my friend M. Temminck, who
considers the present bird as identical with a species originally described by Forster and Pennant under
the name of Zrogon fasciatus : the confusion appears to have been heightened by Dr. Latham, who in the
at his ‘General History of Birds” has illustrated the original description of Forster and
awing of a bird nearly allied to, if not identical with, my Trog. erythrocephalus.

I which formed the subject of the original fasciatus,

second edition

Pennant by a dr
Having examined the drawing in the British Museum, ,
, it to be quite distinct from the present species, which consequently demands

I have no hesitation in stating 2
; hat magnificent work the ‘‘ Planches Colorices

culiar specific title; and as it was first figured in t

for itself a pe as 2 ; :
e to the author to name It after him, although in so doing

: smarting from the rule I gener ; oe i
Tam departing lrom z itle for a bird by which it may be distinguished

1 | ing appropriate specific t
aley which attends the finding an appropt
ac an : for it is scarcely safe to name it after the colour or character of the

lly in the present one, so great a similarity exists that it is almost
; the crescent-shaped band on the chest, the transverse
acters which belong to the family; and if any

from all its congeners 1s very great ;

1 i st or ia
markings, as 10 most groups, and especially |
term sufficiently significant :
plain tail, are all char nd
single species, but 1s generally the characteristic of a
the discovery of the Trog. Diardit we knew of no
hich characterizes both of them; and it is obvious

acter in the first bird, as it would have

impossible to find a
igs, the barred, or
arcely if ever confined to
for instance, before

sing E nd w

other species than the present possessing the Tae cae
( ake % scific title from

insafe to take a spec! c oe

ree er respects they are quite different.

that it would have ae tii

although in ;

been equally applicable to both, alt ae of Ceylon, but that Sumatra, Java, and probably Borneo, form its
ativ ,

I believe that this bird is not a 0

markings of the wu
peculiar feature exists, It 1S SC

division or minor group of the family ;

exclusive habitat.

The Plate represents @ male and female.