f a o e o i r B IA RM ts lT e itm iJ
’D iax d 's Trogon..
TROOON DIARDI I , Temm.
Diard’s Trog’on.
S p e c i f i c C h a r a c t e r . •
Mas. Ttx>g. capite sanguineo; fascid nuehali rosacea ; dorso arenaceo-brunneo ; ctlis albo nigro-
fasciatis, remigibus nigris ; gutture pectoreque nigris ; ventre miniaceo ; rectrici-
¿v.x mtermediis ditabus brunneis nigro apiculatis, duabus proximis utrinque nigris, reUquis
tm basin nigris apicem versus nigro alboque marmoratis.
m&m. Fascia nuckali nulla; capite Jusco-brunneo; alts brunneo nigroque fasciatis; pectore
hrunneo; ventre quctm in mare pallidiore.
host rum nigrescens; or fata- nudai cwxmcK?» , pedes flavescenti-brunnei.
mF. (,ro-vv «( the head bi»iK= «id ; throat and chest black; a nuchal band of rose pink
• v rich colouring ot the head from the back, which with the upper tail-coverts
brown; wiag* Minutely barred with black and white, quills black; breast
and »adnf ,«a#Aoe carmine; thighs black; two middle tail-feathers rich brown tipped with
black, the >>■ o m-vt 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
scarlet; 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 : »»iiji barred with brown and black; quills black; abdomen pale carmine. .
fetot length, m dm .. . 1}: %-mg, 5 f ; tail, 6 i; tarsi, f.
iMt/rdii T*wm., PI, Col. 54
rtra and Borneo constitute the native habitat of this beautiful species, which has been
ory of an intelligent French naturalist, who in the flower of his youth fell a sacrifice to
of the East. His name is associated in most of his zoological pursuits with that of the
tnous Cuvier, the intelligent and zealous Duvaucei.
tinckii it possesses a nuchal band of rose pink, a feature not to be found in any other
r «f Trogon Diordii with its robust biH indicates it to be a bird of considerable power
i } wrtkulars it exceeds Trogon Temminckii, from which it also differs in the markings
in the total absence, of the white pectoral band, and in the colouring of the
It is the only spcdH |i|-fcswered in the Old World exhibiting any tendency to the barred markings of
the three outer tml-fe*fjfce<&, » character so frequently observed in the members of rim family inhabiting the
new continent: in this ins Mm**' white feathers of the tail are covered with fine atarbled markings rather
than with decided bars.