TROGON ORESKIOS, Temm.

Mountain Trogon.

Sprectric CHARACTER.

Jas. Trog. capite, g ‘e. pectore :
Mas 2 pite, gutture, pectoreque lutescentibus ; dorso tectricibus caudee superroribus
eS : a ne 3 : i S5
rectricibus duabus intermediis saturaté rufis; alis ngris i medio transversim albo pluri
fascratis remigibus eaxterné albo fimbri iti “a ee
_ a é albo fimbricatis ; rectricibus tribus externis utrinque ad basin
NILTIS, ad aptcem albis, duwabus proximis nigris ; ventre aurantiaco in medio, et ad crissum

flaco ; Sfemorrbus nigris.

Foem Caprte, pectore dorsoque sordideé . :
: ore, soque sordidé bhrunneis, ure ee .
os 7 dé brunneis, uropygio rectricobusque duabus intermediis

minus sordidts ; alarum fascvis albis ; ventre flavo ad latera subaurantiaco
Rostrum ad apicem negrun, in flacum basin versus nee

Male. The top of the head, throat, and chest greenish yellow; back, coverts of the tail, and
two middle tail-feathers rich maroon heightened on the rump; wings black, with their
middles transversely rayed with strong bars of white; outer edge of the primaries white ;
three outer tail-feathers black at their base and white at their tips, the two next on each
side black; breast and flanks rich orange; middle of the belly and vent yellow ; thighs
black ; legs and feet flesh colour; bill black at the up, eradually passing into yellow at the
base.

Female. Head, chest, and all the upper surface dull brown, becoming more rich on the rump
and two middle tail-feathers ; the remainder of the tail as in the male; the transverse marks
on the centre of the wings brown instead of white ; whole of the under surface yellow,
inclining to orange on the flanks.

Total length, 10 to 10% inches; wing, 45; tazl, Or.

Trogon Oreskvos. Temm., Pl. Col. 121.
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Nearzy all that is here said respecting this species is gleaned from the ‘ Planches Coloriees des Oiseaux” of

M. Temminck, who states that science is indebted to the research of MM. Diard and Reinwardt for the first
knowledge of its existence. It appears to have been unknown to Sir Stamford Rafiles and Dr. Horsfield, as

d in their Catalogue of the Birds of Java, 4 country 10 which, and probably Sumatra, says

it is not enumerate : :
and inhabits woods and

M. Temminck, it is to be found. According to M. Kuhl, it subsists on insects,
mountains.
As far as my own experience goes, I have never seel

while on the other hand I possess several individuals
y distinguished from

, it in collections from the countries above mentioned,
from Rangoon, where it appears to be a species of

; é : -s of its family by the chaste
common occurrence. It may be readil all the other members 0 y by

and less gaudy style of colouring which its
Habitat, Java.
The Plate represents an adult male and female.

plumage exhibits.

 

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