234 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



Genus MEGALAIMA, Gray. 



Bill more or less long, broad at the base, and compressed 

 on the sides ; the culmen generally arched to the tip, which 

 is acute; the f^onys long, and advancing- upwards; the 

 lateral margins curved ; the nostrils basal, lateral, and round- 

 ed, and the base of the upper mandible furnished with very 

 long and strong bristles ; wings moderate, with the fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth quills nearly equal and longest; tail short, 

 and rounded on the sides ; tarsi shorter than the outer, 

 anterior toe, and covered in front with broad scales ; toes 

 long, and the outer pair of equal length and longest ; claws 

 moderate, compressed, and acute. 



466. Megalaima Bilineata, Sundev. ; ofvers. 



Kongl. Vet. Ak. Fovhandl, p. 109 ; Barbatula Leuco- 

 laima, Verr., Hartl. W. Af., p. 173. 



Above, black; forehead and eyebrows white ; cheeks black, 

 with black ring ; chin and throat whitish ; breast grey ; 

 belly yellow ; rump deep-yellow ; wing-feathers black, those 

 on the outside bordered with yellow ; tail-coverts above, black, 

 below, olive-grey ; wings black, variegated with greenish- 

 yellow ; underneath whitish ; webs of secondaries narrowly 

 edged with yellow ; primaries all black ; bill black. Length 

 about 3" 9'"; wing, 3"; tail, 1". 



Kaffraria (Walilberg) — loc. cit ; sed non vidi. 



467. Megalaima Leucotis, Sundev. ; ofv^rs. 



Kongl. Vet. Ak. Forhandl., p. 109. 



Blackish, with a band behind the eye, aad the belly white ; 

 head black ; back reddish. Length, 65". 

 Kaffraria (Wahlberg). — Sed non vidi. 



468. Megalaima Barbatula. (Tem.) pi. Eni., 



746, f. 2 ; Barbatula Minuta, Tem., Hartl. W. Af., p. 

 1 73 ; Bucco Chrysoptera, Swain., An. in Menag., p. 

 322 ; B. Parvus, Cuv,, Le Vail. Barb., t. 32 ; Gapito 

 RubrifronSyY ieil.; B.Pusillus, Dum.; B. Nanus, Yigors, 

 Proc. Z. S., 1831, p. 93 ; B. Chrysozonicus, Eupp. 



Above black, striped with yellow ; beneath, yellowish white ; 

 frontlet crimson ; chin yellow ; ears black, margined with 



