224 BULLETIN 186, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 CYANOPS FAIOSTRICTA (Temminck) 



Green-eared Barbet 



Bucco faiostrictus Temminck, in Temminck and Laugier, Nouveau recueil de 

 planches coloriees d'oiseaux, livr. 88, 1831, pi. 527 and text (Cochin-China). 



Thereiceryx phaeostricta saigonensis, Gtldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siain, 

 1915, p. 230 (listed). 



Thereiceryx phaeostricta, Gtldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, 

 p. 99 (Khun Tan, Doi Pha Sakaeng). 



Thereiceryx faiostricta faiostricta, Gtldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 597 ("Northern 

 and north-western Siam"). 



Thereiceryx faiostrictus faiostrictus, de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1934, p. 254 (Khun Tan). — Rilet, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, 

 p. 201 (Khun Tan, "Doi Phra Chao" [=Doi Saket?]). 



The green-eared barbet, a common bird whose distribution may serve 

 as an indication of the geographical limits of the Indo-Chinese Prov- 

 ince, occurs throughout the more eastern districts but reaches the 

 absolute periphery of its range at the western foot of the Khun Tan 

 chain. In addition to the localities listed above, I have it from Ban 

 Huai Tak, Wiang Pa Pao, Phu Het, Doi San Huai, Doi Lorn, and 

 Doi Up Fa (Laos). 



Wherever this species is found, the related lineated barbet occurs 

 even more commonly in the same forests. The notes and habits of 

 the two forms seem to be much the same. 



I took specimens with enlarged gonads April 24 and May 13, juve- 

 niles with heel pads from June 4 to September 10. All adults collected 

 between June 13 and October 23 are in molt. 



Gyldenstolpe's northern examples had the irides brown or reddish 

 brown ; the bill horn color, plumbeous at the base ; the feet and toes 

 olive-green. 



This barbet, in fresh plumage, has the feathers of the crown and 

 sides of the neck blackish brown, edged brownish gray to give a 

 streaky appearance; the remaining upperparts bright, deep green; 

 the lores, ear coverts, and a very narrow supercilium bright yellow- 

 green ; the throat, neck, and upper breast creamy white, each feather 

 with a deep brown shaft streak; at each side of the lower neck a 

 small red spot, edged with orange; the remaining underparts light 

 green, most of the feathers with green-washed brown shaft streaks; 

 the under surface of the tail bluish green. In worn plumage the stria- 

 tion above and below becomes much less distinct. 



CYANOPS FRANKLINII RAMSAYI (Walden) 



Burmese Golden-throated Barbet 



Megalaema Ramsayi Walden, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 15, 1875, p. 400 

 (Karen-ni). 



