138 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



The Blue-eared Barbet is found only in evergreen or other dense forests, 

 and is consequently not universally distributed over the Province. I found 

 it common on the eastern slopes of the Pegu hills from the frontier down 

 to Rangoon, and it is especially abundant on the higher spurs. Capt. 

 Wardlaw Ramsay procured it on the Karin hills ; Mr. Davison observed it 

 throughout Tenasserim, and Capt. Bingham in the Thoungyeen valley. 

 Mr. Blyth states that it occurs in Arrakan. 



It extends to the north to the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal, Cachar and 

 Tipperah, and to the south down to Tonga and Klang in the Malay penin- 

 sula ; and Dr. Tiraud records it as common in Cochin China. 



This small Barbet differs in no particular from the others, except in its 

 note, which resembles the word "koturr" repeated incessantly. Capt. 

 Bingham found the nest-hole in Tenasserim in February, containing 

 two eggs. 



Genus CALOBHAMPHUS, Less. 



521. CALORHAMPHUS HAYII. 



THE BROWN BARBET. 



Bucco hayii, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 33. Calorhamphus lathami, apud Marsh. 

 Mon. Capit. pi. Ixxii. Megalorhynchus hayi, Wold. Ibis, 1871, p. 163. 

 Calorhamphus hayi, Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 149 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88. 



Description. Male and female. The whole upper plumage dark brown; 

 the feathers of the crown margined with rusty brown, those of the back, 

 rump and upper tail-coverts margined with pale yellowish green; wing- 

 coverts and quills dark brown, the margins paler ; tail plain dark brown ; 

 sides of the head rufous-brown ; chin and throat paler rufous, obsoletely 

 barred with pale yellowish ; remainder of the lower plumage dirty 

 yellowish white. 



Bill in the male black, in the female reddish brown to a dirty orange or 

 ochraceous brown ; in both sexes the legs and feet are orange ; the claws 

 black ; the irides dull red or brownish red, occasionally dark brown, with 

 scarcely any perceptible red tinge ; the orbital skin brown. (Davison.) 



Length 7 inches, tail 2*1, wing 3'2, tarsus '85, bill from gape 1-2. The 

 female is of about the same size. 



The Brown Barbet occurs in the extreme south of Tenasserim at Banka- 

 soon and Malewoon, where, however, according to Mr. Davison, it is 

 excessively rare. 



It ranges down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra. 



