314 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



It is more subdued than the call of the last group; but still 

 considerably like it, without the prehrninarj cachinnation. It 

 hops actively about the branches of trees ; and lives entirely on 

 fruit, which Sundevall said that he found always broken asunder. 



196. Cyanops Franklinii, Blyth. 



Bucco, apud Blyth— Blyth, Cat. 326— Horsf., Cat. 932— 

 B. igniceps, Hodgs. — Kattak-pho, Lepch. 



The Golden-throated Barbet. 



Descr. — Above, vivid green; beneath, paler and more yellowish 

 green ; edge and shoulder of wing deep blue ; first primaries blue 

 externally, the last do., and secondaries, green, all black within, and 

 with a pale edging on the inner web, forming a large pale spot 

 beneath ; forehead and middle of occiput crimson ; crown and throat 

 bright glistening orange-yellow ; some crimson at base of the lower 

 mandible ; round the eye black, continued backwards over the eye 

 to the sides of the occiput, where it is edged with green ; ear- 

 coverts pale brown, mixed with green and blue ; the sides of the 

 neck, from the ear-coverts, and the neck in front, pale whitey- 

 brown ; tail verditer underneath. 



Bill blackish, plumbeous beneath ; irides brown ; orbitar skin 

 plumbeous ; legs greenish-slaty. 



Length 9 inches ; extent 13 ; wing 4 ; tail 2^'; bill at front 

 nearly | ; tarsus barely 



This handsome Barbet is very common at Darjeeling, that is, at a 

 certain altitude, from 4,000 feet to 8,000, and upwards. Its usual 

 cry is something like kattak-kattak-kattak. It lives entirely on fruit. 

 It is found from Nepal, through Sikim, to Assam, Arakan, and 

 Tenasserim, where Tickell says that it is much more abundant than 

 at Darjeeling ; Mr. Blyth, however, tells me that during his rambles 

 in Burmah he only observed two species of Barbet, lineatus and 

 indicus, 



C. fiavifronst of Ceylon, is exactly intermediate in coloration 

 between this group and Megalaima. Other species, from the Indo- 

 Chinese region and ]\Ialayana, are C. Malaccensis, Hartl., C- 

 chrysopogon, T., C. versicolor, T., and C. mysticopha)ies,T., from the 



