13. CTAN0P8. 63 



Bucco asiaticus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xv. 1846, p. 13 ; id. Ann. 8f 



Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. 1847, p. 385 ; Tickell, J. A. «S'. Beng. xvii. 



pt. 1, 1848, p. 298. 

 Bucco C8erulei;jula, Hodgn. Icon. ined. i?i Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 322. 



fig. 1 (no. 171) ; id. in Gray's Zool. 3Iisc. 1844, p. 85. 

 Cyanops asiatica, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zggod. 1854, p. 12; Horsf. Sf 



Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. 1856, p. 640; Jerd. B. Ind. 



i. 1862, p. 313 ; Bb/th Sf Wald. B. Burm. 1875, p. 73 ; Beavan, 



Ibis, 1865, p. 412 ; Blgth, Ibis, 1867, p. 297, note ; Hume, Nests <!^ 



Eqqs Ltd. B. 1873, p. 131 ; id. Str. F. 1874, p. 472; id. ^ Oates, 



S'tr. F. 1875, p. 77 ; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 232 ; Oates, 



Handb. B. Brit. Burm. ii. 1883, p. 133. 

 Meguliema asiatica, Ti/tler, Ibis, 1868, p. 201 ; Marshall, Monogr. 



Capit. 1870, p. 63, pL 29 ; Blyth i^- Wald. B. Burm. 1875, p. 73 ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 27 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 457 ; 



Anderson, Zool. Erped. Yunnan, 1878, p. 584 ; Hume ^ Davison, 



Str. F. vi. 1875, p. 151 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 88 ; Scully, t. c. 



p. 252 ; Oates, Str. F. x. 1882, p. 192 ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



1882, p. 446 ; C. H. T. Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 410 ; Beid, Cat. 



Lucknow Mus. 1886, p. 38. 



Adult male. General colour above light grass-green ; wing- 

 coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primarj'-coverts, and quills 

 rather deeper grass-green, the secondaries like the back, the 

 primaries externally yellowish towards the ends ; tail-feathers 

 green above, blue below ; crown of the head scarlet, as well as the 

 occiput and nape ; across the vertex a black band, preceded by an 

 ill-defined yellowish line before the forehead, which is scarlet, as 

 well as the lores ; the black band continued backwards above the 

 eyebrow, which is bright cobalt like the feathers round the eye, 

 the sides of the face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat ; sides of the 

 neck yellowish green like the rest of the under surface of the 

 body from the fore neck downwards ; on each side of the fore neck 

 a large spot of scarlet ; under wing-coverts yellowish isabelline ; 

 quills below dusky brown, yellowish along the inner edge : " bill 

 greenish yellow horny, black above ; margins of eyelids orange ; iris 

 hazel-brown, brown, or reddish brown: feet dingy green; claws 

 horny black " {J. Scully). Total length S"3 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 

 4-2, tail 2-75, tarsus 1-1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 8-5 inches, 

 culmen 1*1, wing 4"1, tail 2-7, tarsus I'Oo. 



C asiatica has an almost imperceptible spot of scarlet at the 

 base of the lower mandible. Several specimens from its eastern 

 range show a slight trace of blue over the black crown, although 

 never to the same extent as in C. davisoni. 



Hah. The Himalayas from Cashmere eastward to the Burmese 

 countries and Northern Tenasserim, occurring also in Dacca and 

 near Calcutta. 



a. Ad. sk. Kangra (S. Pinwill). Tweeddale Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Dhurmsala, Cashmere, April Hume Coll. 



( W. E. Brooks). 



c. d. Ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Pinwill CoU. 



