Note on the Pyranga roseogularis of Cabot. 125 



which I am now writing, and that it was obtained in the 

 Mawuls, a tract of hilly country dividing the Deccan from 

 the Western Ghauts, I therefore propose to distinguish the 

 small green Barbet of Western India as 



Megal^ema sykesi, sp. nov. 



Description. — Very similar to M. vb'idis, but the brown 

 of the head and nape paler, with a coppery gloss, the feathers 

 of the head pale-edged, those of the nape with pale central 

 streaks ; throat whitish ; breast and sides of neck whitish, 

 each feather broadly margined laterally with dark brown ; 

 wing-coverts unspotted. Bill horny brown. 



Dimensions. — Length 9 inches, wing 43, tail 3. 



This species is abundant in most of the mountainous wooded 

 tracts of Western India. I have obtained it in the Peint 

 and Soorungun districts, which border the Khandesh Dangs, 

 all along the Western Ghauts, and on the summit of Matheran 

 and other detached hills in the Konkan, everywhere to the 

 exclusion of M. viridis, which seems to bear the same rela- 

 tionship to M. sykesi that M. zeylanica does to M. caniceps. 



How far south M. sykesi extends I am unable to say. 



11 The Grove, Highgate. 

 January 24, 1873. 



XV. — Note on the Pyranga roseogularis of Cabot. 

 By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 



(Plate III.) 



In 1847 Dr. Samuel Cabot, of Boston, published in the 

 "Boston Journal of Natural History'"* a description of a 

 new species of Tanager, of the genus Pyranga, which he had 

 procured in Yucatan, " on the road from Chemax to Yalahao, 

 on the 5th of April, 1842/' and proposed to call P. roseo- 

 gularis. 



In 1856 (as already mentioned, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 6) I had 

 the pleasure of examining this unique specimen at Boston, 



* Boston Journ. of Nat. Hist. v. p. 41G (1847). 



