CUCULINA. 123 
middle of the belly, broad frontal space, and wide pectoral gorget, 
glistening crimson; throat and around the eye pale sulphur- 
yellow; below the crimson gorget is a narrow crescent of 
golden-yellow ; a band across the crown, continued round to the 
yellow throat, and a moustachial streak black ; a bluish tinge on 
the occiput and sides of the neck, where the black passes 
gradually into the green of the back, and also on the margins 
of the scapulars and tail. 
The Crimson-breasted Barbet is very common throughout the 
Deccan, and in most parts of Rajpootana and Central India; it 
is not uncommon in Guzerat, but in Sind it only occurs as a 
somewhat rare visitant. In all other places within our limits 
it is a permanent resident, breeding from February to the end 
of May; its eggs, three in number, (there is no nest) are de- 
posited in a hole pierced in a branch of a tree, generally one 
that is decayed and hollow in the centre; the eggs are dull- 
white in color, elongated ovals in shape, and measure 0:99 inches 
in length by 0°69 in breadth. 
During the breeding season its monotonous note (from which 
it gets its name of coppersmith), took-took-took, which it utters 
from the top of a tree, is heard incessantly from early morning 
till late at night. 
Xantholema malabarica, Blyth. 
198.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 817; Butler, Deccan; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 387. 
THE CRIMSON-THROATED BARBET. 
Length, 6°25 ; wing, 3:2; tail, 1°5; bill at front, 0°5; tarsus, 0°7. 
Bill black ; irides red-brown ; legs red. 
Above darkish-green, the feathers edged pale, light green 
beneath ; forehead, around the eyes, and chin and throat, crimson, 
the last margined externally with golden-yellow ; occiput black 
passing into dull blue, which is the color of the cheeks, ear- 
coverts and sides of the neck. 
The Crimson-throated Barbet has been recorded from Savant- 
wadi and from the forests west of Belgaum, but it is rare, and 
has not been found in any other portion of the region, 
Famity, Cuculide. 
Bill of moderate size, usually slender, moderately curved and 
compressed ; nostrils exposed ; gape wide ; toes long, unequal ; the 
outer toe versatile, usually turned back; tail long and _ broad, 
with ten feathers, eight only in one group. 
Sup-FAMILY, Cuculine. 
Bill slender, somewhat broad at the base, convex above, gently 
curved at the culmen; nostrils round, membranous; wings 
pointed ; tail rounded, nearly square, sub-furcate in one group ; 
tibial feathers lengthened ; tarsus very short, partly feathered ; 
