94 CAPITONIDJE. 



This species only differs from C. asiatica in smaller size, in 

 having the band across the vertex verditer-blue instead of black r 

 and with a blue line from the vertical band between the crimson 

 of the occiput and a black stripe that extends from above the blue 

 supercilium to over the ear-coverts. 



Length 8*5 ; tail 2-5 ; wing 3*9 ; tarsus 1*05 ; bill from gape 1'3. 



Distribution. Hitherto only found in Tenasserim about the base 

 of the main range of hills east and south-east of Moulrnein. 



Habits, fyc. Precisely similar to those of C. asiatica. The eggs 

 were obtained by Major Bingham in March on two occasions. 

 In each case two white, rather glossy eggs were found, measuring 

 on an average I'll by -8. 



1014. Cyanops incognita. Hume's Blue-throated Barbet. 



Megalaima incognita, Hume, S. F. ii, pp. 442, 472, 486 ; id. Cat. 



no. 195 ter j Wald. in Blyth's Birds Burm. p. 74 ; Hume 8f Dav. 



S. F. vi, pp. 151, 501 ; Bingham, S. F. viii, p. 194 ; ix, p. 166. 

 Cyanops incognita, Oates, B. B. ii, p. 134 ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix r 



p. 68, pi. iv, fig. 3 ; Sharpe, Yark. Miss., Aves, p. 152, pi. xxiv. 



Coloration. Lores, a narrow frontal band, a nuchal patch, and a 

 spot on each side of the fore neck crimson ; upper surface grass- 

 green ; feathers of crown with pale bluish-green edges ; quills 

 blackish brown, the inner borders and the wing-lining yellow, 

 several primaries with a narrow pale outer border near the tip ; 

 sides of head bluish green, a line of very small bright yellow 

 feathers on the upper and lower eyelids, above these a black 

 supercilium continued back above the ear-coverts, another black 

 streak from the gape ; lower surface pale green, tinged with pale 

 verditer-blue on the malar region, chin, and throat ; lower surface 

 of tail dusky, washed with pale blue. 



Upper mandible and tip of lower dusky horny, remainder of bill 

 paler ; eyelids the same ; irides nut-brown ; legs and feet grass - 

 green (Davison). 



Length about 8'8 ; tail 2-3 ; wing 3*9 ; tarsus -95 ; bill from 

 gape 1*4. 



Distribution. Tenasserim from near Amherst and Myawadee on 

 the north to Tavoy in the south. Eare and local. 



Habits, fyc. Similar to those of C. asiatica. 



1015. Cyanops flavifrons. The Yellow-fronted Barbet. 



Bucco flavifrons, Cuvier, Regne An. i ; p. 428, note, ex Levaill. (1817). 

 Megalgema flavifrons, Blyth, Cat. p. 67 ; Layard, A. M. N. H. (2) 



xiii, p. 447 (1854) ; Marshall, Mon. Cap. p. 69, pi. 30 ; Holdsworth, 



P. Z. S. 1872, p. 429 ; Hume, S. F. vii, p. 370 ; id. Cat. no. 196 ter ; 



Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 212, pi. x. 

 Cyanops flavifrons, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 297 ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. 



xix, p. 65 ; Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 321. 



Coloration. Broad forehead and a spot at each base of the lower 



