50 CAPITONID^. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat only slightly tinted with red hayi, p. 50. 



b. Throat fiery brick-red fuliginosus, p. 51. 



1. Calorhamphus hayi. 



Bucco lathami {nee Gm.), Raffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 284 



(1820). 

 Bucco hayi, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 3.3 (18.32). 

 Calorhamphus sanguinolentus, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 1.39. 

 Megalorhynchus spinosus, Eyton, P. Z. 8. 18-39, p. lOG. 

 Megalorhynchus lathami (wee Gm.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 202 



(1842). 

 Calorhamphus lathami {nee Gm.), Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 13 



(1846); Marshall, Monoqr. Capit. p. 179, pi. 72 (1870); Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 176, no. 8479 (1870). 

 Megalorhynchus hayi, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 431 (1846) ; Bh/th, Cat. 



B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 69 (1849) ; I£orsf. Sr Moore, Cat. B. Mus. 



E. L. Co. ii. p. 648 (1856) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 455 ; Stoliczka, 



J. A. S. B. xxxix. p. 282 (1870) ; Wulden, Lbis, 1871, p. 163. 

 Psilopus hayi, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 141 (1850). 

 Calorhamphus hayi, Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mvs. p. 19 (1868) ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 319 ; Hume Sf Davison, Sir. F. 1878, pt. 1, 



p. 149 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 53, 88; Oates, Handh. B. Brit. 



Burm. ii. p. 138 (1883) ; S/tarpe, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 281. 

 Calorhamphus fuliginosus {nee Temm.), Biitiik. ^"otes Leyden Mus. 



ix. p. 16 (1887). 



Adult male. General colour above dark brown, with margins of 

 olive-yellow to the dorsal feathers, more distinct on the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts ; wing-covcrts and quilLs dark brown, with 

 scarcely any indication of olive margins ; tail-feathers dark brown ; 

 crown of head darker brown than the back, with glossy black shaft- 

 lines ; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, and checks brown, slightly 

 washed with brick-red ; throat pale reddish brown ; fore neck and 

 remainder of the under surface of body j-ellowish white, clearer 

 yellow on the centre of the breast and abdomen ; sides of the body 

 browner, the feathers of the flanks edged broadly with olive-brown ; 

 thighs yellowish white, tipped with olive-brown ; under tail-coverts 

 and under Aving-coverts white, washed with yellow ; edge of wing 

 brown ; quills below dusk}' brown, yellowish ashy along the inner 

 edge : " bill black ; feet orange ; lores black ; iris dull red " ( W. 

 Davison). Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-95, wing3'2, tail 1*85, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male, but differs in the 

 pale colour of the bill : " bill dirty ochreous brown, tip of lower and 

 edges of upper mandible blackish " ( W. Davison). Total length 

 6-4 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3"1, tail 1-9, tarsus 0"8. 



Yonvc/. Resembles the adult, but has less rufous on the face 

 and throat ; the bill pale horn-brown in the skin. 



Hub. From Southern Ten asserim throughout the Malay Peninsula 

 to Sumatra. 



