96 CAPITONID.i:, 



Young birds are green throughout. In nearly adult specimens 

 the black sincipital feathers are tipped with blue. 



Bill black ; base of lower mandible slightly tinged reddish horny ; 

 irides very dark brown ; legs and feet dirty green ; claws bluish 

 black (Davison). 



Length about 6-5 ; tail 2-2 ; wing 3-25 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from 

 gape 1. Tenasserim birds are a little smaller. 



Distrihdion. Eastern Himalayas (Sikhim), Assam, and hills to 

 the south, and throughout Burma. An allied but distinct species, 

 C. duvauccli, inhabits the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



Hahits, Sfc. This is chiefly a bird of dense evergreen hill forest, 

 and is usually seen on high trees. The note is peculiar, of two 

 syllables, harsh and metallic. The eggs have been found in 

 Tenasserim by Major Bingham in February and by Mr. Darling 

 in April, two or three in number, white, aud measuring about -93 

 by -67. 



In size, coloration, and long rictal bristles this species approaches 

 XantJiolcema, but it has a rounded wing. 



1017. Cyanops franklini. The Golden-throated Barhet. 



Bucco franklinii, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi, p. 167 (1842). 



Bucco igniceps, Hodgson, Grai/s Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844), descr. 

 nulla. 



Megaljema frankliui, Blyth, Cat. p. 68 ; Godw.-Atist. J. A. S. B. 

 xlv, pt. 2, p. 70 ; Marshall, 3Ion. CajJ. p. 51, pi. 24 ; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 196 ; id. S. F. xi, p. 68 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 252. 



Cyanops franklinii, Horsf. Sf M. Cat. ii, p. 643 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, 

 p. 314 ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 11 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, 

 p. 98 ; Shellctf, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 69 ; Oates in Hume's N. Sf E. 

 2nded. ii, p.'322. 



Ban-basi, Bdgh-basi, Nepal. 



Coloration, Forehead and a patch in the middle of the occiput 

 crimson ; vertex golden yellow ; lores and area above and below 

 the eye, with the sides of the crown growing broader behind, black ; 

 a bluish collar behind the black ; back, scapulars, and rump 

 grass-green ; outer surface of wing the same near the back, 

 passing into deep blue on the primary-coverts near the carpus ; 

 many of the coverts and the outer primaries near the base with 

 pale" or bluish-green edges; secondaries with green edges; wing- 

 feathers except on outer edges blackish brown, with pale yellow 

 inner borders, wing-lining the same ; tail green above, washed ^\■ith 

 pale blue below ; ear-coverts, malar region below them, and a broad 

 connecting band across the throat pale silvery whity-brown ; an 

 orange spot at each base of the lower mandible ; chin and upper 

 throat golden yellow ; lower parts from throat green or yellowish 

 green. 



Bill blackish, plumbeous beneath ; irides brown ; orbital skin 

 plumbeous ; legs greenish slaty (Jerdon). 



Length about 9 ; tail 2*6 ; wing 4 ; tarsus -95 ; bill from gape 1'3. 



