310 birds of india. 



The Himalayan Gueen Barbet. 



Descr. — Above, green ; a paler green on the flanks and lower 

 Lclly ; vent, and lower tail-coverts, yellowish ; head, neck, 

 throat, breast and upper abdomen, whitish, confined on the crown 

 of the head to an ill-defined medial streak on each feather, the 

 rest being pale-brown ; on the nape these streaks are contracted, 

 and better defined, often upon a green ground ; and they gradually 

 disappear on the back ; throat spotless whitish ; sides of the neck, 

 breast, and abdomen, with each feather, laterally margined with 

 dusky-brown. 



Bill orange horny-brown ; naked orbits deep yellow ; ii-ides 

 brown ; legs dark yellow. 



Length 10^ inches; wing 6^; tail 3; extent 18; tarsus 1 ; bill 

 at front 1^. 



This Green Barbet is found throughout the whole extent of the 

 sub-Himalayan region, not ascending the hills beyond 1,000 or 2,000 

 feet, and even that rarely. It extends also to (Dacca) E. Bengal, 

 Assam, Sylhet, the whole Indo-Chinese region, and also (it is said) 

 to Sumatra ; but the bird from Sumatra (as alleged), upon which 

 the name lineatus is founded, requires to be compared with 

 Indian or Burmese specimens. Its voice is very loud, I procured 

 it quite at the foot of the Himalayas, in the Sikim Terai. 



193. Megalaima caniceps, Franklin. 



Bucco, apud Franklin— Blyth, Cat. 318— HoRSF.,Cat. 924— 

 B. lineatus, apud Tickell— B. viridis (in part), apud Jerdon, 

 Cat. 217 — B. zeylanicus, apud Jerdon, 2nd suppl., Cat. 217, bis— 

 Burra bussimta, Beng. — Kutumra, H., in the Deccan — Kudrunga, 

 Hindi, in Central India — Cuturgd, Mahr. — Kutur haki, Can. — 

 Gandu karnam, Tel. 



The Common Green Barbet. 



J)escr. — General colour of M. lineata, but the brown much 

 predominating over the whitish on the head, neck, andunder-parts; 

 the throat, more especially, being always dusky-brown, instead of 

 whitish; the pale streaks to the feathers of these parts more reduced 

 and narrow, and they are commonly more continued, though gradually 



