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Title: The royal natural history
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Frostick, W. B., former owner. DSI Brooks, W. T., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Natural history
Publisher: London and New York : Frederick Warne & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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by their brilliant coloration.One of the best known is tlie red-headed trogon(H. erythiocephalus), characterised by the chestnutbreast, the deep crimson head, neck, and under-parts,and the black wings, in wliich the primaries are edgedwith white, while the wing-coverts and inner second-aries are finely vermiculated with white; the gapeand region of the eye being bare and of a jiurplishblue colour, while the bill is bluish with a black tip,the feet pinkish, and the eye dull red. The female isnot quite so bright in colour as the male, the lower-parts being duller; the back as well as the neck andbreast reddish brown, and the vermiculations on thewing-coverts buff instead of white. The habits of this trogon difier from those of itsAmerican allies, for Mr. Oates saj-s that its food consists entirely of insects, on whichit swoops after the manner of a flycatcher. It afiects thick forests, and, althoughsolitary in its habits, is so conunon in some of the liill forests tliat a dozen or more
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\OCc ^^ PIC ART AN BIRDS. may frequently be seen together. The eggs are three or four in number, of avery pale buff colour, and laid on the bare wood in some hollow of a decayed tree. The Colies. Family COLIID^E. The colies bring us to another group of the Picarian order, technically knownas the Coraciiformes, often conveniently spoken of (for want of a better name) asthe fissirostral group. With the single exception of the humming-birds, all themembers of the group have a similar arrangement of the tendons on the lower I . .--

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