. Birds. Birds. HAEPAOTHS. 201 Coloration. Male. Head and neck all round, and upper breast, deep crimson; chin blackish; remainder of lower parts bright crimson behind an ill-marked wliite gorget; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts along forearm ferruginous-brown, brighter and more rufous on rump and upper tail-coverts; wings as in H. fas- datus; middle tail-feathers rich chestnut, black-tipped, the next two pairs black, with usually part of the outer web chestnut; outer three pairs black, with long white tips. Female. Head and neck all round, upper breast, back, and scapulars orange-brown, rum
. Birds. Birds. HAEPAOTHS. 201 Coloration. Male. Head and neck all round, and upper breast, deep crimson; chin blackish; remainder of lower parts bright crimson behind an ill-marked wliite gorget; back, scapulars, and wing-coverts along forearm ferruginous-brown, brighter and more rufous on rump and upper tail-coverts; wings as in H. fas- datus; middle tail-feathers rich chestnut, black-tipped, the next two pairs black, with usually part of the outer web chestnut; outer three pairs black, with long white tips. Female. Head and neck all round, upper breast, back, and scapulars orange-brown, rump more rufous; coverts and second- aries barred light brown and black; lower parts red as in the male. The young of both sexes have the lower parts from the breast white or buff, wholly or in Fig. 59.—Head of H. erythrocephalus, j. Bill bluish, tips of both mandibles and culmen black; gape and orbital skin purplish blue ; iris dull red; legs pinkish (bates). Length 13; tail 7*5; wing 5*8; tarsus '6; bill from gape I'l. Pemales rather less. Distribution. Himalayas as far west as Eastern Nepal, up to about 5000 feet elevation, also throughout Assam and the Burmese countries to the Malay Peninsula, in forest. Babits, ^c. Like those of other species. The eggs, generally four in number and creamy white, are laid from March to July; they measure about 1*14 by "OS. 1102. Harpactes davauceli. The Bedr-rumped Trogon. Trogon duvaucelii, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 291 (1824). Harpactes rutilus, Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 71 (1845); Blyth, Cat. p. 80; Horsf. ^ M. Cat. ii, p. 712 {nee Fieitl.). Harpactes duvauceli, Mume, S. F. ill, p. 318; id. Cat. no. 115 bis; Hume 4- Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 63, 498; Gates, B. B. ii, p. 101; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 491. Coloration. Male. Whole head and neck jet-black; back, scapulars, and coverts along forearm orange-brown; rump and upper tail-coverts and lower plumage from throat crimson; wings as in H. fasdatus, but the white bars wider apart; middl
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