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Subsp. a. Chotorhea chrysopsis. 



Bucco chrysopogon (nee Temin.), Low, Sarawak, 1848, p. 411. 

 Megalaima cbrysjpsis, Goffin, Mus. Puys-Bas, Buccones, 1863, p. 15 ; 



Gray, List I'apit. JBrit. Mus. 1868, p. 6 ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. 1870, 



p. 175, no. 8462. 

 Megalaema chrysopsis, Mat. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 210 ; Marshall, Monoffr. 



Capit. p. 37, pi. 17 (1871) ; Salmd. Ucc. Born. 1874, p. 32 ; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1877, p. 8 ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1883, p. 87 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1890, 



p. 4. 



If Marshall's plate is correct and the adult bird has such a bright 

 yellow forehead, then the species would be distinct ; but so far as 

 the specimen in the Museum is concerned, it can be matched by 

 similar youug birds from Malacca : " bill black ; legs lead-colour, 

 tinged with green ; iris warm brown " {A. Everett). 



Hah. Borneo. 



a. (S juv. Foot of Matang, Sarawak {A. Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 



4. Chotorhea versicolor. 



Bucco versicolor, Rajl. Tratis. Linn. S'oc. xiii. p. 284 (1820) ; Temm. 



PL Col. iii. pi. 309 (1825) ; Bltjth, J. A. S. Beng. x\. p. 13 (1846). 

 Bucco raffle^ii, Less. liev. Zuol. 1839, p. 137. 

 Megalaima versicolor, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 429 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 143 (1850) ; Motley ^- Ltillw. Nat. Hist. Labuan, p. 28 (1855) ; 



Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 454 ; Guffin, Mus. Pays-Bas, Buccones, 



p. 15 (1863) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 6 (1868) j id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 174, no. 8435 (1870). 

 Megalsema (Chotorhea) versicolor, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyaod. p. 12 



(1854). 

 Chotorhea versicolor, Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 640 



(1856) ; Salrud. Ucc. Borneo, p. 33 (1874). 

 Megalsema versicolor, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 210; Marshall, Monogr. 



Capit. p. 47, pi. 22 (1871) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 105; id. Ibis. 



1876, p. 35 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 299 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 239' 



id. P. Z. S. 1879, pp. 245, 326 ; Hume, .Sf.r. F. 1879, pp. 53, 83 



Hharpe, P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 280 ; id. Ibis, 1890, p. 4. 

 Cyanops versicolor, Oates,Handb. B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 136 (1883). 

 Megalaema versicolor, var. borneensis, Blasiu^, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 



xxxiii. p. 25 (1883). 



Adult male. General colour above grass-green ; wing-coverts like 

 the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, extern- 

 ally a little darker green than the back, the secondaries resembling 

 the latter ; tail-feathers green above, blue below ; crown of head, 

 occiput, and nape rich scarlet ; hind neck and sides of neck a little 

 brighter green than the back ; lores black ; a broad eyebrow of rich 

 cobalt-blue ; sides of the face and ear-coverts black : below the eye 

 a crimson spot : hinder cheeks golden yellow, fore part of cheeks 

 and throat cobalt-blue, with silvery blue shaft-streaks ; remainder 

 of under surface j-ellowish green, with a golden gloss ; on each side 

 of the fore neck a large spot of scarlet ; under wing- coverts isabcl- 

 line, washed with green ; quills below dusky, yellowish isabelline 



