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HARPACTES FASCIATUS.
Fasciated Trogon.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Troy. capite, re pectoreque Juliginoso-nigris, hoc

a se acondalibus sordidé arenaceo-brunneis ; scapularibus et tectricibus alarum majoribus

gia albo (EDO fasciatis ; remigibus nigris, pogonus externis albo fimbriatis ; -eethe

cibus duabus intermediis subcastaneis nigro apiculatis, proaimis Tories ‘ie nigris
prope rhachin brunneis, requis ad basin nigris, ad apicem albis. *

Foem. Capite, dorso, gutture pectoreque sordide brunneis ;

scapularibus nigro brunneoque fasciatis.

torque lato albo; ventre coccineo; dorso

ventre luteo; pectore haud torquato ;

Rostrum mgrum, mandibularum basi et regione ‘aphiliaiinec® aie ieee

Male.—Head, neck, and breast sooty black, bounded below by a narrow crescent of white
separatiug the sooty black of the breast from the rich carmine-red of the rest of the
under surface ; upper wing-coverts orange-brown, becoming paler and brighter on the
rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings black, the coverts and secondaries crossed with
numerous fine irregular bars of white, and the primaries narrowly edged with the same
hue externally ; the two centre tail-feathers chestnut, narrowly tipped with black, the
next on each side chestnut at the base and black at the tip, the chestnut advancing
in a bifurcated form towards the tip of the outer web; the next on each side
entirely black, the three lateral feathers on each side black at the base, largely
tipped with white, the white advancing on the margin of the outer web nearly
to the base, and the black along the shaft to the tip; irides deep brown; bill
and orbits fine deep cobalt-blue ; legs light blue.

Female.—Difters from the male in having the head and neck brown, with a yellowish
tinge on the chest; the under surface rich ochraceous, and the bars on wings
ochraceous brown instead of white.

Total length about 12 inches ; wing 5.

Trogon fasciatus. Gm. 8. N. i. p. 405: Penn. Ind. Zool. p. 35, pl. iv.

fe | alabaricus. Gould, P.Z.S. 1834, p. 26:—Id> Monee iiozom pl. 31.—Gray,
Gen b. 1. p. 71. 2 |

Harpactes malabaricus. Sw. Classif. B. ii. p. 337.—Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. ee p. 44.

—_— fasciatus. Blyth, Cat. B. Mus: AUS] Be op: 80.—Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus.

Deel, Co: mr. p. 714.—Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. vi.—Jerdon, B. Ind) pee
Holdsw. P. Z. 8. 1872, p. 422.

Pyrotrogon fasciatus. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. i. p. 156.

Kufni Churi, of some Hindoos.

Kurna, of the Mahrattas.

Kakerni Hukhi, of the Canarese.

Rantvuam Kondea, of the Cingalese (Kelaart).

 

where it represents the Malayan Harpactes

hern India and Ceylon, :
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Tue Malabar Trogon is found in Sout
kasumba. The male differs from that of the last-name

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Weitcce. while the female of H. fasciatus wants the breas ;

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