322 CAPITOXID.E. 



breeding-seasou of all our Ceylon Bai'bets. The holes were bored 

 in dead branches of the jack-tree, about 20 feet from the ground, 

 and the eggs laid on the bare wood at the bottom of the cavity. 

 They were two in number, pure white, smooth, and glossy, and of 

 a slightly pointed oval shape. They measured respectively l"t>6 

 by 0-82"; 1-13 by 0-8; 1-13 by 0-82; 1-11 by 0-8. The identifi- 

 cation of the birds was complete, as they were seen and shot." 



tSubsequently Colonel Legge wrote in the ' Birds of Ceylon ' : — 

 "This Barbetlias apparently t\\o broods in the year, for the season 

 of its breeding lasts from Tebruary until September. It selects 

 usually a soft-wood tree, such as the cotton {Bomhax malaharicam), 

 and cuts a round hole into the heart of the branch or trunk, in 

 which it excavates a cavity for its eggs some distance down from 

 the entrance." 



Cyanops franklini (Blyth). TJie Goklen-throatcd Barhct. 



Cvanops frauklinii {Bh/th), Jenl. B. Ind. i, p. 314; Hume, ItoiKjh 

 ^ Draft N. l^- B. no. 19G. 



According to Mr. Hodgson's notes, this species, the Golden- 

 throated Barbet, begins to lay in April, breeding in holes in 

 trees in the central hills of Nepal and Sikhim and in the Terai. 

 The nest-hole is about 10 or 12 inches in depth ; the eggs, three 

 or four in number, are pure white, and one that is figured measures 

 I'l by 0"85 inch ; a broad regular oval. 



Mr. Mandelli has favoured me with an egg of this species taken 

 at Ginzon the 5th August, at an elevation of about 3500 feet. 

 The nest-hole was placed in a medium-sized tree at about 8 feet 

 from the ground, and contained two fresli eggs. 



The egg is a moderately broad oval, pure white, and with very 

 little gloss, and measures I'll in length by 0"82 in breadth. 



Cyanops caniceps (Frankl.). FrauMm's Green Barbet. 



Megalaiiuu caniceps (FraiiJiL), Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 310; I£iimc,liou(/h 

 Draft N. 8, E. no. 193. 



Franklin's Green Barbet breeds in richly- wooded, well- watered 

 districts, especially in the neighbourhood of hilly ground or hills, 

 finding its way up into the valleys of these to an elevation of some 

 2000 or 3000 feet, at any rate, all over Continental, as opposed to 

 Peninsular India. It lays in March and April. At Bareilly I 

 obtained fully-fledged young ones by the 20th of May; and Dr. 

 King, writing from Mount Aboo, says he obtained them there on 

 the 25th of that month. 



Thi'ee or four is the usual number of eggs foiuid, and these 

 appear to be laid very irregularly, as quite hard-set and almost 

 fresh ones are found in the same nest-hole. These latter, so far 

 as I know, are always excavated by the birds themselves in the 

 trunk or one of the larger branches of some soft-wooded tree, such 



