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and clearings. Its loud note of " ko-poh " is uttered incessantly throughout 

 the day, and is one of the most wearisome sounds the traveller in the jungle 

 has to put up with. I have not taken the eggs of this species, but in May 

 I have found the nest-holes with young birds. 



515. CYANOPS ASIATICA. 



THE BLUE-FACED BARBET. 



Trogon asiaticus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 201. Cyanops asiatica, Jerd. B. Ind. i. 

 p. 313 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 130 ; id. 8. F. iii. p. 77. Megalaema asiatica, 

 Marsh. Mon. Capit. pi. xxix. ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 73 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. 

 p. 584 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 151 j Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88 ; Scully, S. F. viii. 

 p. 252. 



Description. Male and female. Chin, throat, cheeks, ear-coverts and a 

 supercilium blue ; another supercilium, superior to this, and a band across 

 the crown black ; the forehead and crown, a spot at the base of the lower 

 mandible on each side, so small as to be barely visible in some specimens, 

 and a large spot on each side the base of the throat crimson the whole 

 plumage green, bright above, yellower beneath ; quills dark brown, edged 

 with bluish green ; the underside of the tail blue. 



Iris reddish hazel ; edges of the eyelids dusky orange ; eyelids themselves 

 orange-brown ; upper mandible greenish yellow at base and dark brown 

 on the remainder ; lower mandible greenish yellow ; mouth dusky blue ; 

 legs pale green ; claws greenish horn. 



Length 9*2 inches, tail 3, wing 4, tarsus 1, bill from gape 1*5. The 

 female is a trifle smaller. 



The Blue-faced Barbet, as far as I have observed it in Pegu, appears to 

 be confined to the dense evergreen forests on the eastern side of the Pegu 

 hills. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay, however, met with it at Tonghoo and on 

 the hills further east, where it was common. In Tenasserim Mr. Davison 

 observed it in the northern portion of the Division only, about Kollidoo 

 and Pahpoon and nowhere else. With regard to Arrakan, Mr. Blyth 

 records it from that Division, and it is no doubt common. 



It ranges through the Indo-Burmese countries into India, and is found 

 in Bengal and along the sub-Himalayan region as far as the Jumna 

 river. 



This Barbet is entirely confined to dense forests, where it keeps to the 

 top of the highest trees, uttering all day its cry of " kooteruk, kooteruk" 

 It breeds in April j but I have not been able to find its eggs 



