132 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



Genus CYANOPS, Bonap. 



514. CYANOPS HODGSON!. 



THE LINEATED BARBET. 



Megalaema hodgsoni, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 144 j Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 540 ; 

 Marsh, Mon. Capit. pi. xxxvi. ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 129 ; id. S. F. iii. 

 p. 75; Bl. fy Wald. B. Burm. p. 73; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 583; Hume fy 

 Dav. S. F. vi. p. 151 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88 j Oates, S. F. viii. p. 166 ; Scully 

 S. F. viii. p. 251 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 165. Megalsema lineata, apud Jerd. 

 B. Ind. i. p. 309. 



Description. Male and female. Forehead, crown and nape brown, each 

 feather tipped with whity brown, the longer feathers of the nape with 

 streaks of the same ; upper back green, each feather with a streak of 

 whity brown; the upper plumage, including wing-coverts, tertiaries and 

 tail, bright green ; primaries and secondaries black, broadly edged with 

 bright green, a few of the earlier primaries edged with light brown on the 

 terminal halves ; chin and throat white ; sides of the head and of the neck, 

 breast and abdomen coloured like the crown, the light streaks larger and 

 occupying the centre of the feather ; sides of the body, lower abdomen, 

 vent, thighs and under tail-coverts light green. 



Bill flesh-coloured, dusky at the edges and paler at the gape ; mouth 

 flesh-colour ; iris brown ; eyelids, orbital skin and legs bright yellow ; claws 

 horn- colour. 



Length 11'3 inches, tail 3'5, wing 5'2, tarsus 1*1, bill from gape 1*7. 

 The female is smaller. 



I have not been able to examine any specimens of the Lineated Barbet 

 from Java, and they may be distinct from the Himalayan birds. It is 

 therefore advisable to keep them apart for the present and to use Bona- 

 parte's name for the Burmese birds, which are undoubtedly identical with 

 others from the Himalayas. 



The Lineated Barbet is found abundantly in all the forests of British 

 Burmah, except in the extreme south of Tenasserim, where Mr. Davison 

 did not meet with it. 



It extends on the east to Cochin China, where Dr. Tiraud states it is 

 common; on the north, through the Indo-Burmese countries to India, 

 where it occurs along the base of the Himalayas, both in the lower hills 

 and in the plains. C. lineata, the Javan race, is met with in Java, and it 

 is said to have been procured in Malacca ; but this latter locality appears 

 to be somewhat doubtful. 



This Barbet frequents thick forests, and is not usually found in gardens 



