210 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 
B.—Smaller forms under 7 inches; patches of crimson 
on head and neck. 
(1) Throat yellow ; cheeks black. 
Xantholema hematocephala (Crimson-breasted 
Barbet). 
(2) Throat orange ; cheeks blue. 
X. rubricapilla (Small Ceylon Barbet). 
THEREICERYX ZEYLONICUS (Blanford, Vol. IIL., p. 86). 
MEGAL&MA ZEYLONICA (Legge, p. 208). 
The Common Indian Green Barbet. 
Description.—Head, neck, breast, and sometimes the upper 
abdomen umber-brown, each feather with pale shaft-stripes, 
co the head these stripes are not very distinct. Back, wing 
coverts, and tail grass green, the mantle with a few pale streaks 
and the wing coverts tipped with small white spots. Wing 
quills brown with pale inner margins, the outer webs green, 
except on the first few primaries. 
‘On the abdomen, the brown of the chest gradually merges 
into the pale grass green of the flanks and lower tail coverts ; 
under surface of tail bluish. 
Bill orange-brown ; iris red-brown ; a circle of naked yellow 
skin round the eye; legs and feet light browrish-yellow. 
Length about 9°75; wing 4°37; tail 3; tarsus 1°2; bill 
1-60. 
Distribution —Common over nearly all the low-country, 
except in the arid maritime districts and the dense forest 
tracts of the wet zone. It ascends the hills to three or four 
thousand feet. Blanford unites in one species the northern 
form, 7’. caniceps, which ranges over the greater part of 
India proper, and the southern race, 7’. zeylonicus, a smaller 
and darker form, which is confined to Travancore and Ceylon. 
Habits, &¢.—This species is very common in village gardens 
and thin jungle, chiefly near cultivation. It feeds largely on 
various species of wild fig. The nest hole is hollowed out of 
a rotten tree, or even a fence post. The three dull white eggs 
