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Distribution. The Eastern Himalayas as far west as Nepal, also 

 the hills south of the Assam Valley (Khasi, Naga, Manipur), 

 between 3000 or 4000 and about 8000 feet. 



Habits, ^r. This Barbet also is said to feed entirely on fruit. It 

 has a call which sounds dissyllabic at a distance, but is said by Hume 

 to consist of three successive sounds, the first being lower in pitch 

 and having less resonance. The eggs, 3 or 4 in number, and 

 pure white, are laid, according to Hodgson, in April, but one was 

 obtained by Mandelli in August. They are deposited in a hole 

 bored in a tree as usual, and measure about !•! by -85. 



1018. Cyanops ramsayi. liamsays Golden-throated Barbet. 



Megalfema ramsayi, Walden, A. M. N. H. (4) xv, p. 400 (1875) ; id. 



in BlytJis Birds Burm. p. 74; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 402; id. Cat.. 



no. 196 bis ; Hume S( Dav. S. F. vi, p. 152 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. 



Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. 561 ; vii, p. 377. 

 Meo-alainia franklinii, apttd Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxiv, p. 277 ; id. Birds 



Burm. p. 74. 

 Cyanops ramsayi, Oates, B. B. ii, p. 135 ; Sharpe, F. Z. S. 1887, 



p. 442 ; Sheliey, Cat. B. 31. xix, p. 70, pi. iv, 11 g. 2. 



This species only differs from C. frankUni in having the ai'ea 

 above the eye and on the sides of the crown above the ear-coverts 

 mixed grey and black, the grey disappearing near the hinder 

 border ; the chin and throat, too, are paler yellow. Soft parts and 

 dimensions as in C. franlJini. 



Distribution. Discovered on the hills of Karennee by Wardlaw 

 Eamsay, and found common above 3000 feet on the Muleyit 

 range, east of Moulmeiu, by Tickell, Davison, and Tea. Also found 

 at Perak, in the Malay Peninsula, by Mr. L. Wray. 



Genus XANTHOLiEMA, Bonaparte, 1854. 



This genus comprises six small Barbets of the Oriental region, 

 three out of the number occurring in India, Ceylon, and Burma. 

 They are distinguished from all other Indian genera of Capitonidm 

 by a differently shaped and more pointed wing, the 2nd primary, 

 instead of being shorter than any other primary except the first, 

 being always longer than the 8th, 9th, and 10th, and sometimes 

 longer than the 6th. The bill is short and thick ; the rictal 

 bristles long, often reaching to the end of the bill. The naked 

 orbit is small. Prevailing colour green, with patches of red or 

 yellow and other bright colours about the head. 



Key to the Sjjecies. 



Throat yellow, cheeks blackish X. hcematocephala, p. 98. 



Throat orange, cheeks blue X. rubricapilla, p. 100. 



Throat crimson A', malabarica, p. 99. 



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