1919-] Oriental Woodpechers and Barhets. 219 



Black ear-ooverts ; black patch on breast well developed. 

 Wing average 75"2 mm. (23 birds). 

 Habitat. Borneo and Snmatra. 



(2) Cyanops duvaiiceli robinsoni. 



Stuart-Baker, Bull. B. O. C. xxxix. 1918, p. 20 : Klang, 

 Malay Peninsula, 



Type. No. 88.11.30.338, ^, ex Hume Coll. British 

 Museum. 



Ear-coverts mixed blue and black ; black spot on breast 

 small. Wing average 75"6 mm. (39 birds). 



Habitat. Malay Peninsula and peninsular Siam and 

 Burma. 



(3) Cyanops duvauceli cyanotis. 



Bucco cyanotis Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. 1847, p. 487 : 

 Bengal. 



Cyanops duvauceli orientalis Robinson, Ibis, 1915, p. 738 : 

 Ok-Yam, Franco-Siamese Boundary. 



Ear-coverts blue ; no black spot on breast. Wing average 

 82-3 mm. (35 birds). 



Habitat. Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Chin and Kachin Hills, 

 Shan States, and Siam, north of the Peninsula. 



(4) Cyanops duvauceli gigantorhinus. 



Mesubucco duvauceli giyantorhinus Oberholser, Smiths. 

 Inst. Misc. Coll. Ix. no. 7, 1912, p. 6 : Batu Is. 



This is merely described by Oberholser as " Like M. d. 

 duvauceli but with a much larger bill : Lafau, Nias 11."' 



No measurements are given, and I have no birds for 

 examination. 



Habitat. Apparently Batu and Nias Islands. 



"^ XANTHOL^MA H.EMACEPHALA. 



This little Barbet, which according to the British Museum 

 Catalogue rejoices in no fewer than fourteen names, is, as a 

 matter of fact, very consistent in size throughout its great 

 range, and its colour varies no more than its dimensions 



