78 CAPITONID^. 



18. Cyanops caniceps. 



Zool. 



Bucco caniceps, FranU. P. Z. S. 1830, p. 121 ; Hartl. Rev. 



1842, p. 337 ; £li/th, J. A. S. Beng. xv. p. 12 (1846). 

 Bucco lineata (nee V.), Tickell, J. A. S. Beng. ii. p. 579 (1833). 

 Bucco viridis, pt., Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 217 (1840). 

 Bucco zeylanicus, pt., Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. pt. 2, p. 140 (1844). 

 Megalaima caniceps. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 429 (1846) ; Blijth, Cat. B. 



Mus. As. Soc. p. 66 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 144 (18-50) ; 



Horsf. ^ Moore. Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 637 (1856) ; Jerd. 



B. Lid. i. p. 310 (1862) ; Gojin, Mus. Bays-Bas, Buccones, p. 36 



(1863), note ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 12 (1868) ; id. 



Hajid-l. B. ii. p. 175, no. 8457 (1870) ; Huyne, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. 



B. p. 129 (1873). 

 Chotorhea caniceps, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zygod. p. 12 (1854). 

 Megalfema caniceps, Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 411 ; Marshall, Monogr. 



Capit. p. 39, pi. 91 (1871) ; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 11 ; Ball, Str. F. 



1874, p. 392 ; id. 1877, p. 413 ; id. vii. p. 206 (1878) ; Hume, Str. 



F. 1879, p. 88 ; Sidnh. fy Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 63 ; Reid, Cat. 



Lucknow Mus. p. 26 (1886) ; id. Str. F. x. p. 25 (1887). 

 Meo-alsema inornata, Walden, Ann. Nat. Hist. (4) v. p. 219 (1870) ; 



Marshall, Monoqr. Capit. p. .38, pi. 89 (1871) ; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, 



p 11 ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 410 ; Fairhank, Str. F. 1876, p. 255 ; 



Butler, Cat. B. Sind, ^-c. p. 19 (1879) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, 



p. 88 ; Vidal, Str. F. ix. 1880, p. 54 ; Butler, t. c. p. 387 ; td. 



B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 25 (1880) ; Davison, Str. F. x. p. 298 



(1887). 



Adult male. Above bright green, all the feathers streaked with 

 yeUowish- white shaft-lines, slightly widening towards the ends, and 

 sometimes with only a pale terminal spot, e.specially on the wing- 

 coverts, which are somewhat browner ; the lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts uniform green, without stripes; quills dusky 

 brown, externally green, the primaries yellowish towards the 

 ends of the outer web ; inner secondaries entirely green with 

 yellowish spots at the ends like the wing-covcrts ; tail green above, 

 bluish beneath ; head and neck all round, as well as the throat, fore 

 neck, and breast, brown, with whitish shaft-streaks, broader on the 

 hind neck and mantle ; lores, fore part of cheeks, and chin dark 

 ashy grey ; throat uniform dark brown ; sides of body, flanks, ab- 

 domen, thighs, and under tail-coverts emerald-green, with a slight 

 wash of pale brown over the abdomen : under wing-coverts and 

 inner lining of quills yellowish : " bill brownish flesh-colour ; feet 

 dingy chrome-yellow, claws brown ; facial skin biiffy yellow, reddish 

 posteriorly " (A. 0. Hume). Total length IQ-B inches, culmen 1-35, 

 wing 5, tail 3*2, tarsus 1-15. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 9-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-45, wing 4-6, tail 2-8, tarsus I-IS. 



In the southern portion of the Indian Peninsula a race occurs 

 which has the green of the underparts more restricted owing to the 

 gradual extension of the brown of the breast over the abdomen. A 



