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shade of this colour, especially towards the base of the latter ; ear- 

 coverts washed with blue, traces of which colour are visible on the 

 ends of the feathers of the chin and fore part of the neck, some of 

 the latter being tinged with red towards the extremity ; wings 

 blackish, bordered externally with olive-green on the primaries, 

 green only on the secondaiies, the inner web all yellowish white, 

 and the under wing-coverts also of the same colour : tail-feathers 

 coloured like the wing on the upper part, but having a silvery tinge 

 underneath ; under tail-coverts blackish at the base and red for the 

 rest of their extent, the latter colour varying in intensity ; beak 

 much curved and equal in leugtli to the head, very strong at the 

 base, conspicuously vai;lted and rather conical, the upper part 

 blackish, but all the rest whitish, furnished with long bristles ex- 

 tending for more than half its length ; tarsi rather long, horn-colour, 

 as also are the nails : wings with the third and fourth quills longest ; 

 tail rather long and slightly rounded. Total length 12 inches, bill 

 from gape 2, wing 5"2, tarsus 1'2. 

 IJab. Cochin China. 



16. Cyanops phaeostriata. 



Bucco flavostrictus, Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. 527 (1831). 



Megalaima flavostriata, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 429 (1846). 



Megalrtima pliaio.>ticta, Bp. Cmisp. i. p. 144 (1850) ; Goffin, Mus. 



Pays-Bas, Euccones, p. 30 (18U3); Gray,Lixt Cii/iit Brit. Mus. 



p. 13 (18G8) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 175, no. 8461 ( 1870). 

 Chotorhea phaeosticta, Bj>. Consp. Volua: Zygod. p. 12 (1854). 

 Megalsema phaiostriata, Marshall, Monoyr. C'apit. p. O'J, pi. 41 



(1871) ; Tiraud, Bull. Soc. Ayric. Cochin Chine, 1879, p. 91. 



Adult. Grass-green, the wings like the back, the primaries edged 

 with yellow ; tail-feathers green above, bluish below ; crown of 

 head and hind neck yellowish white, broadly streaked with brown, 

 the feathers being centred with blackish brown ; hind neck slightly 

 washed with green; sides of neck green, streaked with white; 

 feathers below the eye and ear-coverts emerald-green ; cheeks and 

 throat dull white, the feathers broadly centred with brown ; re- 

 mainder of under surface of the body emerald-green, the feathers of 

 the fore neck, breast, sides of body, and under tail-coverts centred 

 with dusky blackish ; thighs green externally, white internally ; 

 under wing-coverts and quill-lining pale yellow. Total length 8"7 

 inches, culmen l-Oo, wing 4-05, tail 2-3, tarsus 1. 



Hah. Cochin China. 



a. Ad. sk. Saigon, Cochin Cliina. Tweeddale Coll. 



17. Cyanops zeylonica. 



Yellow-cheeked Baihet, Broun. Bl. Zvol. p. 34, pi. 15. fig. 1 (1776) ; 



Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 506 (17t'3). 

 Bucco zeylanicns, Gm. Si/sf. Xfit. i.p. 408 (1788); Cuv. Reyne Anim. 



i. p. 457, note (1829) ;' Blyth, J. A. S. Bcny. xv. p. 13 (184(;). 



