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CAPITONID^. 



c. Ad. sk. Sarawak. 



d. S ad. sk. Sarawak, Sept. 20 [A. Everett). 



e. S ad. sk. Tagora, Sarawak. 



/. (S ad. sk. Gunong Trahu, June (^A, 



Everett). 

 g. 2 ad. sk. Matang, Sarawak, May {A. 



Everett). 

 h. Imm. sk. Lumbidan {Sir H. Low). 

 i. c? imra.sk. Lawas River. 



k. <S]v.\. sk. Binkoka,NortheiTi Borneo. 



/. Ad. sk. [Sumatra.] 



Rajah Brooke [P.]. 



Hume Coll. 



H. Everett, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale CoU. 



J. Whitehead, Esq. 



[P.l. 

 J. Whitehead, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Evton Coll. 



11. MEGAL^MA. 



Type. 



.Megalaima, Grmj, List Gen. B. App. p. Vl (1842) . M. marshallorum. 



Bamje. From the Himalayas to Teuasserim, and thence to 

 Southern China. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Wing-coverts washed with maroon ; head 



green vii-ens, p. 52. 



b. Wing-coverts green, not washed with maroon ; 



head blue marshallomm, p. 53. 



1. Megalaema virens. 



Grand Barbu de la Chine, UAuhent. PI. Enl. vii. fol. 871. 



Grand Barbu, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. 1780, p. 106 ; Levaill. Ois. de 



Tarad. Barbus, ii. 1800, p. 55, pi. 20. 

 Grand Barbet, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, 1783, p. 503. 

 Bucco virens, Bodd. Tabl. Fl. Enl. 1783, p. 53. 

 Bucco grandis, Gm. S. N. i. 1788, p. 408 ; Temm. PI. Col. Tabl. 



Mefh. 1836, p. 55 ; Bp. Consp. i. 1850, p. 143. 

 Capito grandis, Vieill. N. Diet. dHist. Nat. iv. 1816, p. 499. 

 Megalaima virens. Gray, Gen. B. ii. 1846, p. 429. 

 Megalfema virens, Sicinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 411 ; id. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 269, 



1871, p. 391 ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 472 ; David 8f Oust. Ois. 



Chine, 1877, p. 56; Hume ^ Danismi, Str. F. vi. 1878, p. 150; 



Hume, Str. F. ix. 1879, p. 88 ; Bingham, t. c. p. 473, x. 1880, 



p. 166 ; Oates, Handb. B. Brit. Burm. ii. 1883, p. 130 ; Styan, 



Ibis, 1887, p. 230. 

 Megalsema marshallorum (riec Sicinh.), Blyth Sf Walden, B. Burin. 



1875, p. 73, pt. ; Wardlaw Ltamsaif, Ibis, 1877, p. 457 ; Oates, 



Handb. B. Brit. Bimn. ii. 1883, p. 129. 



Adult male. Similar to M. marshallorum, but with the head and 

 throat verditer-blue, inclining to greenish ; a maroon shade on the 

 median wing-coverts, and with no yellow on the hind neck, the 

 latter having only a few verditer-blue shaft-lines : " bill aiid gape 



