'86 CAPITONID^E. 



to the middle of July. The eggs are dull white, usually four in 

 number, and measure on an average 1'37 by *98. 



1007. Megalsema virens. The Great Chinese Barbet. 



Bucco virens, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 53 (1783). 



Megalsema virens, Hume, S. F. ii, p. 472 ; id. Cat. no. 191 bis ; 



Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 150 ; Bine/ham, S. F. ix, pp. 165, 473 ; 



Oates, B. B. ii, p. 130 ; id. in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 319 ; 



Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 52 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



(2) vii, p. 377. 

 Meg-alsema marshallorum, Walden, Birds Burm. p. 73; Wardl. 



Rams. Ibis, 1877, p. 457 ; Gates, B. B. ii, p. 129; nee Sivinhoe. 



Similar to M. marshallorum, except that the colour of the head 

 and neck is verditer-blue with a greenish tinge, and that the pale 

 streaks on the upper back are much fewer, less marked, and 

 whitish or bluish, not green or yellow ; the median wing-coverts 

 too are tinged with red. Soft parts and dimensions as in 

 M. marshallorum. 



Distribution. Karennee and hill-forests of northern Tenasserim 

 as far south as Muleyit, east of Moulmein, extending thence into 

 South China. 



Habits, fyc. Similar to thos.e of M. marshallorum. The eggs 

 were found by Major Bingliam in Tenasserim during February 

 and March. 



Genus THEREICERYX, Blanford, 1893. 



Bill shaped somewhat as in Megalayma, but the upper mandible 

 is not quite so high, and the bill is generally pale yellowish 

 throughout. Nostrils exposed. Wing rounded. The plumage is 

 peculiar ; the head, neck, and breast are brown, more or less 

 streaked with white, the rest of the plumage green. 



Three species are found within Indian limits, a fourth, T. phce- 

 ostictus (phceostriatus}, inhabits Cochin China. The members of 

 this small group have hitherto been referred by various writers 

 either to Megalcema or to Cyanops. 



Key to the Species. 



a. A large naked orbital space extending to gape . T. zeylonicus, p. 86. 

 J). Orbital space smaller, not extending to gape. 



a'. Wing about 5" T. lineatus, p. 88. 



&'. Wing about 4" T. viridis, p. 89. 



1008. Thereiceryx zeylonicns. The Common Indian Green 

 Barbet. 



Bucco zeylanicus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 408 (1788) ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 



xv, pp! 13, 282. 

 Bucco caniceps, Franklin, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 121. 



