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Megalaima caniceps, Blyth, Cat. p. C6 ; Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) 



xiii, p. 446 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 637 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 310. 

 Megalaima zeylanica, Horsf. & M. Cat. ii, p. 638: Holdsworth. 



P. Z. S. 1872, p. 429. 

 Megalrema caniceps, Beavan, Ibis, 1865, p. 411 ; Stoliczka,' J. A. S. B. 



xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 22; Marshall, Man. Cap. p. 91, pi. 39; 



McMaster, J. A. S. B. xl, pt. 2, p. 209 ; Ball, S. F. ii, p. 392 ; 



v, p. 413 ; vii, p. 206 ; Morgan, Ibis, 1875, p. 314 ; Hume, Cat. 



no. 193 ; Reid, S. F. x, p. 2o ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 121. 

 Megalcema zeylanica, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 296 ; Marshall, Man. Cap. 



p. 95, pi. 40 ; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 369 ; id. Cat. no. 193 ter ; 



Leqge, Birds Ceyl. p. 208, pi. x. 

 Megatema inornata, Walden, A. M. N. H. (4) v, p. 219 (1870); 



Marshall, Mon. Cap, p. 89, pi. 38; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 11 ; 

 "lume, S. F. iii, p. 401 ; id. Cat. no. 193 bis ; Butler, S. F. iii, 

 p. 459 ; ix, p. 387 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 54 ; Davidson. S. F. x, p. 298 ; 



Littledale, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. i, p. 197 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. 



p. 121. 

 Cyanops caniceps and C. zeylonica, Oates in Hume's 'N. fy E. 2nd ed. 



ii, pp. 322, 324 ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, pp. 76, 78. 

 Thereiceryx zeylonicus, Blanf. Ibis, 1893, p. 237. ' 



The common Green Barbet, Jerdon ; Barra Bussunta, H. & Beng. ; 

 Kutumra, Deccan ; Kudrungfi, H. in Central India ; Kotur, H. (Rohilcund 

 .and Doab) & Mahr. ; Sunterar, Beng. Manbhoom ; Kuturga, Mahr. ; 

 Kutur haki, Can. ; Gandu Karnam, Tel. ; Kotoruwa, Cing. ; Kutur, 

 Tamil (Ceylon). 



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Fig. 25. Head of T. zeylonicus. 



A large naked space round the eye extending to the gape, lores 

 almost entirely naked. Culmen much curved. 



Coloration. Head and neck all round, with the breast, and some- 

 times the upper abdomen, brown, the feathers with narrow pale 

 shaft-stripes, the pale shafts generally inconspicuous on the head, 

 but becoming more and more distinct behind ; upper parts from 

 neck bright green ; interscapulary feathers, scapulars, and upper 

 wing-coverts more or less distinctly pale-shafted with small 

 termiual whitish spots. Abdomen paler green than back ; tail 

 below washed with light verditer-blue ; quills brown, with pale 

 inuer margins and the primaries narrowly pale-edged near the 

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