Temm.

TROGON REINWARDTILI,

Reinwardt’s Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHaracter.

Trog. capite, dorso, tectrictbusque caude

laribusque flavo transversim 1; Org Or), coe

svers meates ; remigibus n2oTes 2,
; ; ee :
Ws, pogonis externis albis ; gutture flavo ;

; S
ae que olwaceo-brunneis ; ventre flaco ad latera aurantiaco ;
ctricibus cerule >
escenti-atris ir idescentibus, tribus externis wtrinque apicem versus albis.
Rostrum aurantiaco-rubrum ; rego ophthalmica nuda coer ulea ; tarsi flavt

superioribus saturate viredibus ; alis in medio

auribus, colli lateribus, pectore

Bill bright reddish orange ; top of the head, back
Q ? ? < ’

ius and upper tail-coverts dark green ;
six middle tail-feathers bluish black wit]

2

- | 1 green reflexions; the bases of the three outer
feat 1ers on each side the same colour as the middle ones, the remaining portions being
white :

yellow ; primaries black, with the exception of the outermost w eb, which is white; throat

yellow; ear-coverts, sides of the neck, and chest olive brow n; belly and under surface
yellow, becoming rich orange on the sides; tarsi yellow ; bare on round the eye blue
‘Total length from 12+ to 13+ inches; tail, 7+; wing, 5t. :

Trogon Reinwardtv. Temm., PI. Col. 124.

 

From the circumstance of the present bird and the Zrogon narina of Southern Africa being the only species
yet discovered in the Old World possessing a green plumage, it would appear that they approximate more
nearly to the American Trogons, in which this feature is so conspicuous, than do any of their congeners,
though at the same time they possess characters which readily distinguish them, viz. the absence of serra-
tures along the edges of the bill and of bars on the tail.

The native habitat of this species are Java and Sumatra, where it was discovered by Professor Reinwardt,
that truly worthy and justly celebrated naturalist, whose exertions have added so much to the stores of science,
and after whom it has been named.

The Trogon Reinwardtii offers a singularity to our notice in the great similitude of the plumage of the sexes,
the female possessing the same characteristic markings as the male, from whom she differs only in having the
colours more obscure, and by the rich orange of the throat and flanks giving place to a pale yellow.

Iam highly indebted to my valued friend M. Temminck for an example of the young of this species, a
figure of which is given in the accompanying Plate ; and which, as illustrating the change which the present

o will be seen that
species undergoes from youth to maturity, will not be uninteresting to the ornithologist. It e see
state, it exhibits a similarity to the adult, particularly in the colours of the back and

although in this immature
, as in all the Trogons w here the plumage of the female

tail, a circumstance which rarely occurs in the family
differs much from that of the male, the young birds

case, where the sexes are nearly alike, the young part

generally resemble the former; while, as in the present
ake of the adult colouring, differing only in the markings

of the wings and the rufous brown tint of the breast.

That the Trogon Reinwardti should rarely occur in collections is :
to be very local in its habitat. The vast collections brought to this

a fact which may probably be accounted

for by the circumstance of its appearing
country by Sir T. Stamford Raffles and Dr. Horsfield did not contain an example.

SIZ
The Plate represents an adult male and a young bird of Ce

centre of the wings and shoulders green, transversely rayed with fine lines of