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back, tlie rump, and upper tail-coverts are shining light grass- 

 green ; the greater coverts green, with a coppery gloss; the prima- 

 ries blue-green, fading to dull blue externally ; secondaries and 

 tertiaries yellowish or sap-green, with a coppery gloss on the last of 

 the secondaries and tertiaries ; tail bluish-green ; breast brown, 

 passing into blue-green on the middle of the abdomen ; sides of 

 the breast and abdomen pale yellow, with brown blotches ; vent, 

 mixed light green and yellow ; imder tail-eoverts crimson, as in 

 most Toucans. 



Bill yellow, pale in front, dusky at the edge of the upper man- 

 dible ; irides brown ; legs greenish-horny. 



Length 13 inches ; extent 18 ; wing 5| ; tail 4 ; bill at front 

 If ; tarsus 1^. 



This species deviates from the others of this genus in the bill 

 being wider at the base, and in the nareal and rictal bristles being 

 fewer and shorter. It evinces a very distant affinity, or analogy, 

 for the Trogons, and perhaps the Eurylaimi 



This large Barbet is found throughout the Himalayas, as also 

 in Assam, and it is said to inhabit China. In Sikim, I found it at 

 from 3,000 to 8,000 feet of elevation, though most commonly, I 

 think, at about 6,000 feet. 



It has a loud plaintive call (j)i-o, pi-o, pi-o), keeps to tlie tops of 

 high trees, lives entirely on fruit, and has a strong and vigorous 

 flight in great undulations. Capt. Hutton makes its call hoo, hoo, 

 Jioo ; and states, but erroneously, that its flight is labored. Adams 

 remarks that it is common in Cashmere on the lesser ranges, and 

 that its cry is loud and harsli. 



We have next a group of three or four very closely allied 

 species, differing in size, and in some slight variations of colour ; 

 each race being confined to a certain locality. The voice, too, is 

 similar in all, but also with sufficient variation to be easily made 

 out, as distinct, in those species which I know. 



192. Megalaima lineata, Vieill. 



Bucco, apud Vieillot — Bltth, Cat. 317 — IIoiiSF., Cat. 922 — 

 B. caniceps, apud IIodgsox — M. IIodgsoni, Bonap. — Paharia 



Corul, Beng. — JJavr^ kanionff-p/io, Lepch. 



