T E M M I K C K I I
Temminck’s Trogon.
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Temminck’s Trog*on.
S p e c i f i c C h a r a c t e r .
Mas. Trog. vert ice, gutture, pectoreque nigris, hoc postice torque alho; abdomine, strigd inde
duct a nuchamque cingente coccineis; dor so tectricibusque caudoe superioribtis Havcscento-
brunneis ; alis nigris striis transversis albis mx numerosis or nut is ; rectricibus duabus inter -
mediis castaneis ad apicem nigris, duabus proximis utrinque nigris, reliquis ad basin nigris
apicem versus late albis.
Foem. Magis obscura; capita gultureque saturate grisescento-brunneis; pectore arenaceo-brunneo ;
alarum strigis bruuueis; torque pectorali cinguloque nuchali nulUs.
Rostrum ad apicem tantum saturate ceeruleum, ad basin (sicut et regio.ophthalmicanuda) pallidius.
Male. Top of the head, throat, and chest black; a crescent-shaped band of white separates
the chest from the breast, which, with the abdomen and vent, is scarlet, and from which
extends a narrow band of the same colour round the nape of the neck; back and upper
tail-covert* yellowish brown; wings black, trw»aversely rayed with fine lines of white
rather thinly disposed : two sjudiU»* tad feathers chestnut brown tipped with black, the
two writ on each side wholly black, the remainder black at the base and largely tipped
v- 'e'v while; naked skin round the eyes fine blue, which extends over nearly the whole of
Hte: Woming darker at the t ip ; feet brown.
Ftmmlc. iv -- m 1mm the male in being destitute of the nuchal and pectoral bands, in th e head'
and throat being dark brown inclining to grey instead of being wholly black, in the
-breast being sandy brown, and in the markings of the wings being brown instead of
white ; in the remainder of the plumage she resembles the male, except th a t th e colours
are more obscure.
Total length, about 12 inches; wing, 6i ; tail, 6r.
Trogon Temminckii. Gould, ¡Proceedings of Zool. Sod., Part III.
lftes a : "Miinatioii I have been induced to differ fhmi the opinion of my friend M. Temminck, who
onsider* âte bird m identical with a species originally described by Forster nod Pennant under
l,ïc name of f&motus : the confusion appears to have been heightened by Dr. Latham, who in the
ïcond edit»«*« hi» ' General History of Birds” has illustrated the original description of Forster and
’ennant by i .c -v ' ■ of a bird nearly allied to, if not identical with, my Trog. erythrocephalus.
Having csîi-:î-î?;Sî-'-- die drawing in the British Museum, which formed the subject of the original fascia tus,
have no fcÉm&CKo* Mating it to be quite distinct from the present species, which consequently demands
>r itself a iàôe ride ; and as it was first figured in that magnificent work the “ Planches Coloriées
es Oh iw t" wf W 1 have thought it due to the author to name it after, him, although in so doing
am depart«** rs-c-t. w-V- I generally observe in nomenclature : at the. same time I may mention that the
ifficulty which >:ks-v «£>-. ending an appropriate spécifié title for a bird by which it may be distinguished
•oui all its congener ». great; for it is scarcely safe to name it after the colour or character of the -
mrkings, as i«moetgw»s$* ¡m»! especially in the present one, so great a similarity exists that it is almost
«possible to find a M : ; .^rly significant : the crescent-shaped band on die chest, the transverse
tarkings of the wings, .the -i or plain tail, are all characters which belong to the family; and if any
ccullar feature exists, it is ksè ■ : if ever confined to single species, but is generally the characteristic of a
¡vision or minor group of tie b ; for instance, before the discovery of the Trop. I'J v - ;/•. we knew of no
flies' species than the present «sing the nuchal band which characterizes both of them ; and it is obvious
iat it would have been unsafe fcv take m *peej4c title From this character in the first bird, as it would have
ecu equally applicable to both, although in other respects they are quite différent
I brtotve that this bird is not u native of Ceylon, but that Sumatra, Java, and probably Borneo, form its