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dead trees where they rernain for an hour or more at a time, repeating a 
single monotonous note. Eggs three or four, pure white; deposited in 
a hole excavated in a limb of a oe. 
Species. 
@, Chin, throat, and subocular band yellow.......................- hemacephalum (p. 390) 
a. (Chin; ‘thropt. and Suhocnan bamd Re kere eee nes roseum (p. 391) 
354. XANTHOLAEMA HAEMACEPHALUM (P. L. 8. Miiller). 
YELLOW-CHINNED BARBET. 
Bucco hemacephalus P. L. S. MULLER, Nat. Syst. Suppl. (1776), 88. 
Xantholema hematocephala SHELLEY, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1891), 19, 
89; BLANForD, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1895), 3, 98, fig. 27 (head). 
Xantholema hematocephalum SHARPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 185, 238; 
Oates and Rem, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 136; McGregor and 
WorcrEstER, Hand-List (1906), 64. 
A-so-ni-pti-song, Manila; took-took, generally. 
Calamianes ? (Bourns & Worcester) ; Leyte (Steere Hxup., Whitehead) ; Luzon 
(Meyer, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; Min- 
danao (Martens, Everett, Koch & Schadenberg, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, 
Celestino, Goodfellow); Mindoro (Steere Hup., Everett, Schmacker, Bourns & 
Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Porter); Samar (Whitehead). Malay and 
Indian Peninsulas, Burmese Provinces, Ceylon, Sumatra. 
Adult (sexes similar).—Forehead and crown crimson, followed by a 
blackish cross-band extending behind eye to ear-coverts ; occiput and nape 
bluish slate; rest of upper parts olive-green ; superciliary line, subocular 
line, chin, and throat light sulphur-yellow; lores, jaw, and ear-coverts | 
black; posterior to yellow throat a narrow crimson band, followed by a 
narrower golden yellow band; remainder of under parts pale yellow 
heavily streaked with dark green, lighter on middle of abdomen; exposed 
edges of wing and tail-feathers grass-green. Iris brown; bill and nails 
- black; legs and bare skin about eye red. A male from Bataan Province, 
Luzon, measures: Length, 175; wing, 87; tail, 42; bill from nostril, 17; 
culmen from base, 21; tarsus, 20; middle toe with claw, 21. A female 
from Bataan Province measures: Wing, 83; tail, 40; bill from nostril, 16 ; 
culmen from base, 20; tarsus, 17; middle toe with claw, 18. 
“Young.—Differs from the adult in wanting the scarlet on the head 
and the bright colors of the under parts; uniform green above with 
yellowish white edgings to wing-coverts and secondaries; a pale yellow 
mark above and below eye; cheeks and ear-coverts blackish; throat and 
abdomen pale yellow; fore neck and breast dull green, the breast and 
sides of body narrowly streaked with green.” (Shelley.) 
“We heard a barbet on several occasions in Busuanga, but were unable 
to procure any specimens. As X. hemacephalum occurs in Mindoro, it 
seems most probable that the Busuanga bird will prove to be of this 
