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An example with the gonads greatly enlarged was taken at Muang 

 Ngop, April 23, and a wholly green juvenile at Ban Hai Huai Som, 

 June 17. Smith collected a number of specimens in postjuvenal and 

 postnuptial molt at Khun Tan, between August 29 and September 10. 



De Schauensee states (1929) that a male had the bill black, grayish 

 at the rictus ; the feet and toes olive. 



The adult male has the forehead and forecrown black (sometimes 

 flecked with blue), followed by an equally broad, blue vertical band, 

 which changes to bright, deep green on the nape and remaining up- 

 perparts; a short malar streak scarlet, more or less mixed with yel- 

 low and bordered below by a black mustachial streak ; the ear coverts 

 blue, edged above and below by crimson streaks ; the chin and throat 

 blue, the feathers with black bases which show through on the lower 

 throat to form a more or less distinct, irregular plastron ; the remain- 

 ing underparts yellow-green, sometimes with a narrow, indistinct red- 

 dish gorget edging the blue of the lower throat ; the under surface of 

 the tail blue-green. The adult female seems always to have the black 

 of forehead and forecrown strongly overlaid with blue. The ju- 

 venile has the entire plumage green, slightly more bluish green on the 

 throat and sides of the head. 



XANTHOLAEMA HAEMACEPHALA INDICA (Latham) 



Indian Coppersmith 



[Bucco] indicus Latham, Index ornithologicus, vol. 1, 1790, p. 205 (India; type 

 locality restricted to Calcutta, by Stuart Baker, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. 

 Soc, vol. 28, 1921, p. 105). 



Xantholaema haeniatoeephala, Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 

 1913, p. 51 (Phrae) ; 1916, p. 101 (Pha Kho, Pang Hua Pbong, Kbun Tan) ; 

 Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 230 (listed). 



Xantholaema haemacephala indica, Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 598 ("Through- 

 out the whole country"). — de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadel- 

 phia, 1929, p. 569 (Chiang Mai) ; 1934, p. 256 (Chiang Mai, "Tung Sio," Chi- 

 ang Rai). — Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 159 (Chi- 

 ang Mai) ; 1936, p. 95 (Chiang Mai).— Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, 

 p. 209 (Mae Lang valley, Mae Hong Son, Nan). 



This little barbet, which is strictly confined to the lowlands, is very 

 common throughout the area. 



The nok pok may be found at times in the dry, deciduous forest or 

 in the more open evergreen but is always more numerous in cultivated 

 country and especially so in the gardens and orchards of towns and 

 villages, where its monotonous poke-poke-poke or wock-wock-wock is 

 a familiar sound from the mango and tamarind trees during the heat 

 of the day. The voice is with difficulty traced to the small green 

 singer concealed in the foliage ; if the bird be perched upon an exposed 

 limb it will be seen that the head is constantly turned from side to side, 

 so that the metallic notes seem to come from all directions at once. 



