to ' The Birds of India.' 11 



191. Megal/ema virens. 



Mr. Swinhoe asserts that the Chinese race diiFers from the 

 Himalayan form, and, as the specific name virens was founded 

 on the Chinese bird, has named the Indian one MEGALiEMA 

 MARSHALLORUM*. It is Called Miouli at Massooree, from its 

 call. 



192. Megalaima lineata will now stand as Megal^ma 

 HODGSONI, lineata being a distinct species, from Siam and 

 Malayana. 



193. MeGALvEMA can IC EPS. 



Late observations tend to show that the jungle Green Barbet 

 of Malabar is a distinct species, which has been named by Lord 

 Walden as 



193 bis. Megal^ma inornata, Walden, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 1870, V. p. 219. The Malabar Green Barbet. 



Chin, throat, breast, and upper portion of abdominal region 

 uniform pale brown, with the shafts faintly paler. Above as in 

 canicepSf the terminal spots on the wing-coverts and tertiaries 

 almost wanting. Size of caniceps ; bill larger and stouter. 



Lord Walden possesses specimens of this species from Mala- 

 bar, Coorg, and Candeish. The extension of this bird to the 

 last-named province makes it probable that Elliot's remarks 

 properly apply to this species rather than to caniceps. 



196. Cyanops franklini. 



This has been figured by Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. xxii. pi. 12. 

 Length of one measured recently 9^ inches, wing 3|^, extent IS^, 

 tarsus 1, foot 2. 



Messrs. Marshall, in describing the call of this Barbet, copy 

 TickelFs account, which gives it as identical with that of Mega- 

 Icema marshallorum — and do not notice my correction of this — its 

 call being quite similar in character, though more subdued, to 

 that of its congeners of the plains. 



\QQbis. Cyanops cyanotis, Blyth. 



Godwin-Austen has obtained this Barbet at Asalu, on the 



* Messrs. Marshall state that they do not acknowledge the distinctness 

 of the two races; but there is, I think, sufficient difference to allow 

 Mr. Swinhoe's opinion to hold good. 



