13. CTAN0P8. 69 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but scarcely so bright, and 

 having the occipital spot rather smaller. Total length 7 inches, 

 culmen 1, wing 3-7, tail 2-15, tarsus (>95. 



Yomiff. Like the adult, but with a pale base to the brown 

 mandible ; the scarlet on the lores feebly developed ; the scarlet 

 occipital spot absent ; the spot on each side of the lower throat 

 represented bj' a faint mark of orange-yellow. 



Hab. Central Tenasserim. 



a. S ad. sk. Near Myawadee, April 21 (C. Ilume Coll. 



T. Bingham). 



b, c. cS <id. sk. Amherst, July 19 ( W. Davison). Hume Coll. 

 <i-f- 6 ; i/- 2 ISenv Tavoy, April ( W. JJavi- Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. sow). 



7. Cyanops pulcherrima. 

 Megalsema pulcherrima, Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 393, pi. ii. tig. 2. 



Adult. Similar to C. incognita, but differs in the absence of the 

 red on the head and lower throat, and the nearly uniform colouring 

 of the sides of the head, and absence of the black streaks behind the 

 eye : " bill black ; feet scaly green ; iris black " (J. Whitehead). 

 Total length 7*8 inches, culmen O'S, wing 3-7, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-95. 



Hab. Kina Balu Mountain, North Borneo. 



a,b. c? 2 ad. sk, Kina Balu (/. Whitehead). Seebohm Coll. 



8. Cyanops franklini. 



Bucco franklini, Bb/th, J. A. S. Beng. xi. p. 167 (1842), xv. p. 13 



(184(5). 

 Bucco igniceps, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 322. 



lig. 2 (no. 172) ; id. in Gray^s Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). 

 Megalaima franklini, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 430 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. 



B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 68 (1849); Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 144 (18-30); 



Gray, Cat. Mamn. 8,-c. Nepal pres. Hodys. p. 114 (1863) ; Goffin, 



Mus. Bays-Bas, i. Buccones, p. 20 (186.3); Graif, List Capit. 



Brit. Mus. p. 8 (1868) ; id. Rand-l. B. ii. p. 174. no". 8443 (1870). 

 Cyanops franklini, Ilorsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 643 



(1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 314 (1862) ; Beavan, Ibis, 1805, p. 412 ; 



Bidyer, Ibis, 1869, p. 157; Jerd. Ibis, 1872, p. 11; Hume, Nests 



^- Egys Bid. B. p. 131 (1873). 

 MegaLnema franklini, Gould, B. Asia, vi. pi. 50 (1870) ; Marshall, 



Monogr. Capit. p. 51, pi. 24 (1871) ; Blyth i<f Walden, B. Burm. 



p. 74 (pt.) (1875) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879. p. 88 ; Scully, t. c. p. 252. 



Adult male. General colour above grass-green ; scapulars like the 

 back ; lesser wing-coverts deep blue, median and greater coverts 

 green, -with blue edges ; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 black, externally blue, the secondaries externally green like the 

 back ; tail-feathers green above, bine below ; crown c^" head bright 

 golden yellow, with a scarlet spot on the occiput ; sides of the hinder 

 crown black from the lores, with a bluish tinge on the sides of the 



