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Megalaema virens virens, Chasen and Boden Kloss, Journ. Siara Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 Suppl., 1932, p. 235 (Doi Suthep). 



The giant barbet occurs in dense evergreen forest throughout the 

 northern provinces but is commonest in the mountainous districts west 

 of (and including) the Khun Tan chain and on the high hills of north- 

 western Nan (Phu Kha) ; between these areas I have recorded it only 

 from Muang Phayao, but it will doubtless be found wherever the 

 jungle is suitable. Its altitudinal range is largely governed by the 

 distribution of such jungle : on Doi Ang Ka it is very common from 

 4,500 to 8,400 feet; on Doi Suthep, from 2,700 to 5,500 feet; on Doi 

 Pha Horn Pok, from the lowest foothills to at least 6,000 feet. 



This barbet's loud, querulent pre-e-o, pre-e-o, pre-e-o can be heard 

 on the northern mountains from morning till night, but the singer, 

 concealed in the foliage of some forest giant, is seldom seen. It will 

 be most easily observed in the vicinity of fruiting trees, where it 

 often gathers in considerable numbers. Perched against the sky it 

 looks like a blackish bird with large, light-colored bill ; in the air it 

 may be known by its rather labored, dipping flight and the noisy 

 rattling of its wings. 



I have a long series of well-grown juveniles, collected between 

 August 13 and October 23. All adults taken between August 28 and 

 October 21 are in molt. 



An adult female Had the irides bright brown; the bill bright 

 chrome yellow on the basal half, otherwise pale green ; the anterior 

 half of the culmen slaty, becoming almost black at the tip ; the feet 

 and toes olive-green ; the claws slaty black. 



The giant barbet has the whole head and neck deep blue, sometimes 

 with a sort of nuchal collar formed by light-colored shaft streaks; 

 the upper back and the shoulders green suffused with chestnut; the 

 remaining upperparts chiefly deep grass green; the upper breast 

 blackish brown; the under tail coverts bright red; the rest of the 

 underparts heavily streaked with cream, yellow, bright green, and 

 greenish blue (the last color restricted to the center of the lower 

 breast and upper belly) . 



CYANOPS LINEATA HODGSONI (Bonaparte) 



Nepalese Lineated Barbet 



Megalaimus [sic] hogdsoni [sic] Bonapabte, Conspectus generum avium, vol. 1, 



1850, p. 144 (Nepal). 

 Therciceryx [sic] lineatus hodgsoni, Gyxdenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. 



Handl., 1913, p. 50 (Den Chai, Pak Pan) ; 1916, p. 100 (Khun Tan, Doi Pha 



Sakaeng). 

 Thereiceryx lineata hodgsoni, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, 



p. 230 (listed). 



