CYANOPS. 95 



mandible golden yellow ; whole upper plumage dark grass-green, 

 the coronal feathers tipped with gold, and those of the occiput 

 and back and sides of the neck with whitish shaft-stripes ; quills 

 blackish brown, their inner margins and the wing-lining pale 

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

 tip ; lores, supercilia, sides of head below eye, ear-coverts, chin, 

 and throat verditer-blue ; remainder of lower surface of body pale 

 green, the breast-feathers with well-marked emerald-green borders ; 

 abdomen and flanks tinged with emerald-green ; lower surface of 

 tail-feathers blackish washed with pale verditer-blue. 



Bill greenish horny, dusky at base of culinen ; iris light red ; 

 tarsi and feet sickly green, the tarsi in some bluish (Legye). 



Length 8*5 ; tail 2'3 ; wing 3-6 ; tarsus '95 ; bill from gape 1*2, 



Distribution. Ceylon, chiefly in the hill-forests of the Kandyan 

 province up to about 6400 feet, but found also locally in the low 

 plains. 



Habits, fyc. Very similar to those of other Barbets. This is an 

 active, noisy, fruit-eating bird, with a peculiar monotonous call, 

 monosyllabic according to Legge, who adds that this species makes 

 a nest-hole usually in a soft-wood tree, such as the cotton-tree 

 (Bombax), and lays two or three smooth w T hite eggs, measuring on 

 an average 1*11 by *81. It has apparently two broods in the year, 

 the breeding-season lasting from ^February to September. 



1016. Cyanops cyanotis. The Blue-eared Barbet. 



Bucco cyanotis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi, p. 465 (1847). 



Megalsema cyanotis, Marshall, Mon. Cap. p. 77, pi. 33. fig. 3 ; Blyth 



8f Wold. Birds Burm. p. 74 ; Inglis, S. F. v, p. 27 ; Hume $ Dav. 



S. F. vi, pp. 155, 502 ; Hume, Cat. no. 198 ter ; Bingliam, S. F. ix r 



p. 166 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 69 ; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 



(2) v, p. 64 ; vii, p. 378. 

 Cyanops cyanotis, Godiv.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 98; 



Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, p. 11. 

 Xantholeema cyanotis, Hume, S. F. iii, p. 77; Oates, B. B. ii r 



p. 137. 

 Mesobucco cyanotis, Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 87 ; Oates in Hume's 



N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 328. 



Nyet-pa-din, Arrakan. 



Size small, rictal bristles extending beyond end of bill. 



Coloration. Feathers above nostrils white at base, those of lores 

 and forehead black, all fringed with pale blue ; sinciput black : 

 occiput cobalt-blue ; ear-coverts, chin, and throat light verditer- 

 blue, area below eye bright red, the feathers white at the base ; a 

 crimson patch above and another below the ear-coverts ; a black 

 malar stripe ; remainder of upper and lower plumage bright grass- 

 green except the bend of the wing, which is more or less blue, and 

 the quills, which are blackish brown with whitish inner margins ; 

 the tail-feathers are sometimes bluish green above with brighter 

 edges, and always washed with verditer below. 



