136 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



Mr. Davison met with it on the higher slopes of Mooleyit mountain, and 

 Capt. Bingham in the Thoungyeen valley. It appears to be most common 

 at elevations of from 3000 to 5000 feet. 



Nothing particular is recorded of its habits. 



Mr. Blyth notes C. franklinii from Tenasserim on the authority of Col. 

 Tickell ; but I have no doubt the birds so designated were C. ramsayi, those 

 naturalists not deeming the slight differences in the two birds of much 

 importance. 



Other species of this genus are : C. ph&ostriata, described from Cochin 

 China some fifty years ago, and not again rediscovered ; it somewhat 

 resembles C. hodgsoni, but has a supercilium and the cheeks bright green. 

 The next three species occur in the Malayan peninsula, and may ultimately 

 be found to extend to Tenasserim : C. versicolor, a very brightly plumaged 

 bird, the head being of many colours, with the whole throat bright blue ; 

 C. chrysopogon, also of gaudy plumage, with bright yellow moustachial 

 bands ; and C. henricii, with the forehead and sides of the crown bright, 

 golden yellow. 



Genus XANTHOL^MA, Bonap. 



519. XANTHOL^MA H^MACEPHALA. 



THE CRIMSON-GORGETED BARBET. 



Bucco hsemacephalus, P. L. S. Mull. Natursyst. Siqypl. p. 88 ; Bucco indicus, 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 205. Xantholsema indica, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 315 ; Wald. 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 162. Xantholaema haemacephala, Marsh. Mon. Capit. pi. xlii. ; 

 Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 156 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 131 ; id. 8. F. iii. 

 p. 77 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 311 j Gates, S. F. v. p. 144 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. 

 vi. p. 155 j Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 218 j Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88 ; Scully, S. F. 

 viii. p. 253 j Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 167 ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 390. Megalaema 

 haemacephala, Bl B. Burm,. p. 74. 



Description. Male and female. Chin, throat, a spot over the eye and 

 one under it yellow ; forehead and crown back to the eyes and a band 

 across the breast crimson ; cheeks, ear-coverts and a band over the crown 

 black ; sides of the neck greenish slate-colour ; upper plumage, including 

 the wing-coverts and tertiaries, green, the nape tinged with blue ; primaries 

 and secondaries black, the outer webs edged with green ; tail green, the 

 inner webs edged with brown ; lower plumage dull yellow, broadly 

 streaked with green, and with a patch of deep yellow on the breast next 

 the crimson. 



Bill black, bluish at the gape and base of lower mandible mouth 



