CYANOPS. 429 



1026. Megaleema viridiS, Gmel. t Sysl. Nat. \. p. ; Jerdon, 111. 

 Ind. Orn. pi. 26; id., B. Ind. i. p. 311, No. 194 ; Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 419; 

 iv., p. 319. The SMALL GREEN BARBET. 



Similar to M. caniceps, but is devoid of the specklings on the wing coverts 

 and lineations on the back; the head and nape also are scarcely lineated ; 

 throat whitish. Bill horny brown ; irides red brown ; orbitar skin brown ; legs 

 plumbeous. 



Length. 8 inches; tail 275 ; wing 4 ; bill at front O'9. 



/fa. South India, the Neilgherries and Malabar Coast. Breeds on the 

 Ncilgherries in April and May. Eggs pure white, a little glossy, 35 in 

 number. 



Gen. Cyanops, Bonap. 



Bill shorter than in Megalcema ; head with bright colours ; sides of the face 

 blue. 



1027, Cyanops asiatica (Lath.), Jerd., B. Ind. \. p. 313, No. 195 ; 



Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 130; id.. Sir. F. iii. p. 77. Trogon 

 asiaticus, Lath., Ind. Orn. i. p. 201 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 133. 

 Megalaima asiatica, Marsh. Mon. Capit. pi. xxix. ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 73; 

 Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 151; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 88; Scully, 

 Str. F. viii. p. 252. The BLUE-FACED BARBET. 



Forehead, crown, a spot on each side at the base of the lower mandible, and 

 one on each side at the base of the foreneck, crimson ; a band across the 

 crown continued backward as a supercilium black ; a superciliary streak 

 below this, as well as the chin, throat, cheeks and ear coverts verditer-blue ; 

 upper plumage gre/ n, with a faint ruddy gloss on the back, yellower on the 

 under surface ; quiks dark brown, margined with bluish green ; under side of 

 tail feathers blue. Bill greenish yellow, the terminal two-thirds of upper 

 mandible dark brown ; irides hazel brown ; eyelid edge orange-brown ; legs 

 pale green. 



Length. 9-2 to 9-5 inches; tail 3; wing 4 to 4'3; tarsus I; bill from 

 gape 1-5. 



Hal. The Indo-Burmese countries into India. Found in Bengal and along 

 the sub-Himalayan region as far as the Jumna river. It is confined, according 

 to Oates, to the densest forests on the Eastern side of the Pegu hills. It has 

 been met with at Tonghoo. In Tenasserim Mr. Davison obtained it in the 

 northern portion of the division about Kollidoo and Pahpoon. It is recorded 

 from Arracan by Blyth, and Jerdon says it is found throughout Lower Bengal, 

 extending through the sub-Himalayan region as far as the Dehra Doon, 

 also Assam and Sylhet ; and that he observed it all through Lower Bengal 

 from Calcutta to the Sikkim Himalayas. It is said to breed in April and May, 

 There is nothing known of its eggs. 



