﻿238 
  Dr. 
  W. 
  T. 
  Blanford 
  on 
  some 
  

  

  Avliicli 
  the 
  liybrid 
  name 
  of 
  Megalama 
  or 
  Cyanops 
  phaostriata 
  

   is 
  applied 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Monograph 
  of 
  the 
  Capitonida3^ 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   British 
  Museum 
  Catalogue. 
  This 
  was 
  originally 
  named 
  

   Bucco 
  faiostrictus 
  by 
  Temminck^ 
  PI. 
  Col. 
  pi. 
  527 
  (Rarbu 
  

   grivele)^ 
  but 
  in 
  his 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Bucco, 
  published 
  at 
  

   the 
  same 
  time 
  (88'^livraison), 
  the 
  name 
  is 
  ^v'xniQAfaiustriatus. 
  

   By 
  Bonaparte 
  (Consp. 
  Gen. 
  Av. 
  i. 
  p. 
  144) 
  the 
  name 
  was 
  

   corrected 
  to 
  phaiostictus 
  [phceostictus) 
  , 
  and 
  this 
  spelling 
  is 
  a 
  

   great 
  improvement^ 
  and 
  may^ 
  I 
  thiuk^ 
  Avitli 
  advantage 
  be 
  

   adopted, 
  as 
  it 
  was 
  by 
  Goffin 
  and 
  G. 
  R. 
  Gray. 
  Thereiceryx 
  

   ph(Bostictus 
  is 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  a 
  tyjiical 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  ; 
  

   both 
  in 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  bill 
  and 
  in 
  some 
  details 
  of 
  coloration, 
  

   especially 
  in 
  having 
  a 
  red 
  spot 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  fore 
  neck, 
  

   it 
  shows 
  a 
  passage 
  to 
  Cyanops. 
  

  

  There 
  remain 
  several 
  species 
  of 
  more 
  gaudily 
  coloured 
  

   Barbets, 
  the 
  section 
  b 
  of 
  the 
  Monograph. 
  These 
  are 
  divided 
  

   in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  Catalogue 
  between 
  Chotorhea 
  and 
  

   Cijanops. 
  I 
  concur 
  in 
  the 
  separation 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  genera. 
  

   Chotorhea 
  is 
  distinguished 
  by 
  having 
  a 
  much 
  longer 
  and 
  

   very 
  black 
  bill, 
  lower 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  with 
  the 
  culmen 
  greatly 
  

   curved. 
  There 
  is, 
  however, 
  one 
  species, 
  Bucco 
  mystacophanus, 
  

   Temm., 
  placed 
  by 
  Shelley 
  in 
  Cyanops, 
  which 
  I 
  agree 
  with 
  

   Horsfield 
  and 
  Moore, 
  Salvadori 
  (TJcc. 
  Born. 
  p. 
  3 
  J), 
  and 
  

   Gates 
  (' 
  Birds 
  of 
  Burma,' 
  ii. 
  p. 
  130) 
  in 
  referring 
  to 
  Chotorhea. 
  

   On 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  regard 
  the 
  differences 
  exhibited 
  

   by 
  Mesobucco 
  as 
  generic. 
  The 
  type 
  of 
  the 
  genus, 
  M. 
  clu- 
  

   vauceli, 
  certainly 
  has 
  very 
  long 
  rictal 
  bristles, 
  but 
  they 
  are 
  

   of 
  less 
  length 
  in 
  M. 
  cyanotis, 
  and 
  in 
  a 
  sp)ccies 
  recently 
  de- 
  

   scribed 
  from 
  Borneo 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  M. 
  eximius 
  by 
  

   Dr. 
  Bowdler 
  Sliarpe 
  (Ibis, 
  1892, 
  pp. 
  324, 
  441, 
  pi. 
  xi.) 
  they 
  

   are 
  scarcely, 
  if 
  at 
  all, 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  bill, 
  whilst 
  in 
  typical 
  

   forms 
  of 
  Cyanops 
  they 
  are 
  very 
  little, 
  if 
  at 
  all, 
  shorter. 
  In 
  

   other 
  details 
  of 
  structure 
  and 
  in 
  plumage 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  

   Mesobucco 
  agree 
  with 
  Cyanops, 
  and 
  the 
  only 
  remaining 
  dis- 
  

   tinction 
  is 
  the 
  smaller 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  former, 
  but 
  this 
  by 
  itself 
  

   is 
  scarcely 
  of 
  generic 
  importance. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  is 
  a 
  key 
  to 
  the 
  genera 
  of 
  Oriental 
  Barbets 
  

   as 
  above 
  defined, 
  and 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  