'■86 CAPITONlDiE. 



to the middle of July. The eggs are dull white, usually four in 

 number, and measure on an average 1'37 by '98. 



1007. Megalaema virens. The Great CJdnese Barhet. 



Bucco Tirens, Bodd. Tahl. PL Enl. p. 53 (178.3). 



Megalsema virens, Hmne, 8. F. ii, p. 472 ; id. Cat. no. 191 bis ; 



Hume 8f I)av. S. F. vi, p. 150 ; Binf/fiatn, S. -F. ix, pp. 165, 473 ; 



Oates, B. B. ii, p. 130- ; id. iii Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 319 ; 



Shelki/, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 52 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



(2) vii, p. 377. 

 Megalsema marshallorum, Walden, Birds Bur?n. p. 73; Wardl. 



jRcmis. Ibis, 1877, p. 457 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 129 ; nee Sivinhue. 



Similar to 3f. marsJialhnim, except that the colour of the head 

 and neck is verditer-blue with a greenish tinge, and that the pale 

 streaks on the upper back are much fewer, less marked, and 

 whitish or bluish, not green or yellow ; the median wing-coverts 

 too are tinged with red. Soft parts and dimensions as in 

 M. marshallorum. 



Distribution. Karennee and hill-forests of northern Tenasserim 

 as far south as Muleyit, east of Moulmein, extending thence into 

 South China. 



Hahits, ^T. Similar to those of M. marshallorum. The eggs 

 were found by Major Bingham in Tenasserim during February 

 and March. 



Genus THEREICERYX, Blanford, 1893. 



Bill shaped somewhat as in Megalcema, but the upper mandible 

 is not quite so high, and the bill is generally pale yellowish 

 throughout. Nostrils exposed. Wiug rounded. The plumage is 

 peculiar ; the head, neck, and breast are brown, more or less 

 streaked with white, the rest of the plumage green. 



Three species are found within Indian limits, a fourth, T. jjlice- 

 ostictus {phcfostriatus), inhabits Cochin Chiua. The members of 

 this small group have hitherto been referred by various writers 

 ■either to Megalcema or to Cyanojys. 



Key to the Sijecies. 



a. A large naked orbital space extending to gape . T. zeyhniais, p. 86. 

 h. Orbital space smaller, not extending to gape. 



a' . Wing about 5" T. lineatus, p. 88. 



b'. Wing about 4" T. viridis, p. 89. 



1008. Thereiceryx zeylonicus. The Common Indian Green 

 Barhet. 



Bucco zeylanicus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 408 (1788) ; BIyth, J. A. S. B. 



XV, pp! 13, 282. 

 Bucco caniceps, FranJilin, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 121. 



