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Diard’s Trogon.

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SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

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Trog. capite sanguineo ; fascia nuchali rosaced ;
minute fasciatis, remigibus nigris ;
mtermediis duabus

dorso arenaceo-brunneo ; alis albo nigroque

gutture pectoreque nigris ; ventre miniaceo ; rectricibus

Bees brunneis nigro apiculatis, duabus proximis utrinque nigris, reliquis ad

basin nigris apicem versus nigro alboque marmoratis.

Fom. fascid nuchali nulla ; capite fusco-brunneo ;
brunneo ; ventre quam im mare pallidiore.

Rostrum nigrescens ; orbite nude coccinese ;

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pedes flavescenti-brunnei.

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Male.—Crown of the head deep blood-red; throat and chest black ; a nuchal band of
rose-pink separates the rich colouring of the head from the back, which, with the
upper tail-coverts, is dark sandy brown; wings minutely barred with black and
white; quills black; breast and under surface of body carmine; thighs black ; two
middle tail-feathers rich brown, tipped with black, the two next on each side black,
the rest black at their base, and marbled for the remainder of their length with black
and white; bill blackish; bare space round the eye purplish red ; feet yellowish brown.

Female.—Destitute of the nuchal band and having the top of the head dusky brown ;
the back and tail as in the male, the outer feathers being less thickly dotted with

black ; chest brown ; wings barred with brown and black; quills black; abdomen
pale carmine.

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Total length 12; inches; bill 1{; wing 5:; tail 65; tarsi 3.

 

Trogon diardu. Temm. PI. Col. 54.—Gould, Monogr. Trogon. Ist ed. pl. 30.

Harpactes diardi. Swains. Classif. B. u. p. 337.—Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 71.—Blyth, Cat. B.
Mus. A. S. B. p. 80.—Bp. Consp. i. p. 151.—Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I.
Co. u. p. 716.—Gould, B. Asia, part xvu.

Pyrotrogon diardi. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 156.—Salvad. Cat. Uce. Born.
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Or this beautiful Trogon I have seen a large number of specimens in the course of my life, and after a very
careful comparison I have not been able to separate examples from Malacca from others of Bornean origin.
At one time I was inclined to believe in two species; but I have now seen so many specimens from Borneo
indistinguishable from Malaccan birds, that I have abandoned this idea. fn Borneo fae bird seems to be
abundant and has been obtained in several localities, viz. at Pontianak by Diard, at Bejadjoe by Solomon
Miiller, and at Sarawak by Doria and Beccari as well as by Mr. Hugh Low, who has more recently procured
it in Labuan. In Malaccan collections it often occurs. .

I have already given, in my ‘ Birds of Asia,’ all the details as yet published concerning the species, a
correct idea of which can be gathered from the accompanying Blate, which has already Te a he
It may be distinguished from the other Asiatic Trogons by the freckled EEGs of the
to some of the American members of the family.
where they are depicted of the natural size. The

mentioned work.
outer tail-feathers, in which respect it assimilates
The two sexes are figured in the accompanying Plate,

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