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mandible; rest of lower parfs yellowish green; tail-feathers washed 

 beneath ^\•ith pale blue ; quills blackish brown, their inner border 

 and the wing-Hning yeUowish white ; a narrow whitish line on 

 the outer web of several primaries near the tip. In the young 

 the colours of the head are indistinct. Males from the Cachar 

 hills are said to have the mantle-feathers and upper tail-coverts 

 tipped with maroon and the under tail-coverts splashed with 

 vermilion. 



Bill greenish yellow horny, black above; margins of eyehds 

 orange ; irides hazel-brown, brown, and reddish brown ; feet dingy 

 green, claws horny black (Sculli/). 



Length about 9*2; tail '2-7 ; wing 4-1 ; tarsus 1-05; bill from 

 gape 1"4. 



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Fig. 26. — Head of C. asiatica. 



Disti'ibution. Common throughout the Lower Himalayas and 

 sub-Himalayan forests up to 3500 or 4000 feet as far west as 

 Chamba, also in Lower Bengal, Assam, and the neighbouring 

 countries as far as the Khakyen hills in Yunnan to the eastward, 

 and south to Burma. This Barbet has been found by Gates in 

 the Arrakan and Pegu hills, by "Wardlaw-Eamsay in Karennee, and 

 by Davison in Northern Tenasserim about Pahpoon. 



Habits, 4'C' A noisy, active bird, living on fruit, and having a 

 peculiar frequently-repeated trisyllabic call. It breeds in the 

 Himalayas in April and May, and generally lays three eggs in a 

 hole, which it excavates in the trunk or a bi'anch of a tree. As a 

 rule there is no lining, but in a very few instances a pad of vege- 

 table fibres or some other substance has been found. The eggs 

 are white, with little or no gloss, and measure about 1'09 by 'SS. 



1013. Cyanops davisoni. Davison's Blue-throated Barhet. 



Me<?alsema davisoni, Hume, S. F. v, p. 108 (1877) ; id. Cat. no. 195 

 bis ; Hume 8f JDav. S. F. vi, p. 151 ; BiiKjham, S. F. ix, p. 165 ; 

 Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. 562. 



Cyanops davisoni, Oates, B. B. ii, p. 134 ; id. in Hume's N. ^ E. 

 '2nd ed. ii, p. 321 ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 65, pi. iv. fig. 1. 



