98 CAPITONID^. 



throat much mottled with yellow. Total length 5-7 inches, culmen 

 0-9, wing 3-2, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-75. 



Not fully adult. Differs from the fully adult in having the eye- 

 marks and the lower throat intermixed and streaked with yellow : 

 " bill black ; legs and feet coral-red ; iris hazel-brown " {A. Everett). 

 Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0*85, wing 3-2, tail 1-3, tarsus 

 0-95. 



Hah. Islands of Negros and Cebu, Philippines. 



a. S ad. sk. Negros, Feb. (Z. C. Layard). Tweeddale Coll. 



b. (S imm. sk. Valencia, Negros, Aug. (.4. H. Tweeddale Coll. 



JEierett). 

 c,d.S2 ad. sk. Cebu, April {A. H. Everett). Tweeddale Coll. 



16. PSILOPOGON. 



Type. 



Psilopogon, S. MiUler, Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. Phtja. 



ii. p. 330 (183.5) P. pyrolopbus. 



Pseudobucco, Des Murs, Encycl. Hist. Nat. ii. p. 24 



(1849) P. pyrolophus. 



Buccotrogon. Von Kreling, Jahr. Nat. Gesch. Emdeji, 



1852, p. 20 P. pyrolophus. 



Range. Mountains of Malayan Peninsula and Highlands of 

 Sumatra. 



1. Psilopogon pyrolophus. 



Psilopogon pyrolophus, S. Milller, Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. Phi/s. ii. 



p. 339 (1835) ; Grat/, Gen. B. ii. p. 431 (1846) ; Bp. Cnnsp. Av. 



i. p. 141 (1850) ; Marshall Monogr. Capit. p. 133, pi. 53 (1870) ; 



Grail, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 177, no. 8487 (1870) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 



1883. p. 243; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 352: id. P. Z. S. 1887, 



p. 442; Biittik. Notes Let/den Mus. ix. p. 14 (1887). 

 Pseudobucco pyrolophus, Des Murs, Encycl. Hist. Nat. ii. p. 24 



(1849). 

 Buccotrogon torquatus, Von Kreling, Jahr. Nat. Gesch. Emden, p. 20 



(1852). 

 Megalaima pyrolopba, Goffin, Mus. Pat/s-Bas, Buccones, p. 37 



(1863) ; Snelleman, in Veth's Midden-Sumatra, Vog. 1885, p. 35. 



Adult male. General colour above grass-green ; tail-coverts, 

 wing-coverts, and secondaries green like the back ; primaries dusky 

 blackish, externally green, yellow towards the ends of the outer 

 web; tail-feathers green above, bluish below ; hinder crown, hind 

 neck, and sides of neck brown with a greenish wash ; forehead, 

 lores, and nasal bristles black, the latter tipped with scarlet ; 

 across the centre of the crown a broad band of hoary grey ; sides 

 of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks cindery grey ; above the ear-coverts 

 a streak of emerald- green, beginning above the eye ; upper eyelid 

 yellow, the lower one emerald-green ; base of cheeks and chin 



