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there is not, I believe, a specimen in any English museum. It appears to 

 belong to this genus. 



In addition to the above diagnosis, Mr. Hume states that the bright 

 crimson lores and frontal band, the yellow eye-ring, and the long and 

 extremely strongly marked black superciliary and gape-stripes serve to 

 distinguish this species at a glance. 



Hume's Barbet occurs in Tenasserim about Amherst and Yea, and in 

 the vicinity of Tavoy ; and Cap t. Bingham records it as common in the 

 Thoungyeen valley at certain seasons. 



Mr. Davison remarks that the note and habits of this species are similar 

 to those of C. asiatica. At Tavoy it was met with in thin tree-jungle. 



518. CYANOPS RAMSAYI. 

 RAMSAY'S BARBET. 



Megalaema ramsayi, Wald. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xv. p. 400 ; id. in Bl. B. Burm. 

 p. 74 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 402 ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 457 ; Hume $ 

 Dav. S. F. vi. p. 152 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88. 



Description. Male and female. Forehead and a patch on the nape crim- 

 son ; crown shining yellow ; lores black ; a broad supercilium and a patch 

 under the eye with mixed streaks of grey and black ; ear-coverts silvery 

 grey ; a patch at the gape yellow tinged with red ; chin and upper throat 

 golden yellow ; lower throat, fore neck and under ear- coverts dull grey ; a 

 thin band of bright greenish blue joining the ear-coverts, runs over the 

 back of the neck, bounding the bright colours of the head ; a patch of 

 black between the supercilium and the red nape-spot ; remainder of the 

 plumage green, yellower below ; lesser wing-coverts deep purplish blue, 

 which colour passes on to the edge of the wing and the outer webs of some 

 of the primaries ; quills dark brown on the inner webs, green on the outer; 

 under wing- coverts whitish ; tail uniform dark green. 



Bill horn-brown, dirty white at the gape and sides ; orbits dark brown ; 

 iris nut-brown ; legs and feet pale greenish plumbeous ; claws horny. 

 (Bingham, MS.) 



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

 female is of the same size. 



This species is very close to C.franklinii from India, and differs from it 

 only in having the supercilium mixed with grey instead of having it pure 

 black. 



Ramsay's Barbet was discovered by Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay in Karennee, 

 and he subsequently found it common in the hills east of Tonghoo. 



