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portions of the last, or a trifle smaller. Length of a fine recent 

 specimen 10^ in., by 16 in. in expanse ; wing 4f in. ; tail 3^ in. 

 Colour of bill reddish ; the iris brown ; feet light yellowish 

 brown ; bare skin around the eye dull orange. General colour of 

 B. lineatus, but the brown much predominating over the whitish 

 on the head, neck, and under parts ; the throat, more especially, 

 being always dusky-brown instead of whitish ; the pale streaks to 

 the feathers of those parts are much more reduced and narrow 

 than in B. lineatus ; and they are commonly more continued, 

 though gradually diminishing, upon the green of the back ; while 

 each wing-covert and tertiary (in the imworn plumage) has a 

 whitish speck at tip, which is never seen in B. lineatus ; the fore 

 neck and breast are almost uniform brown, instead of whitish, 

 lineated with narrow brown lateral streaks to each feather. Such 

 is the common species of Central India, found northward in the 

 Deyra Doon, where it occurs together with B. lineatus. In Lower 

 Bengal, properly so called, it is not met with ; but immediately 

 to the westward of the alluvial soil of the Ganges, it abounds (as 

 in the Mednapur jungles). Its voice is a loud rolling or thrilling 

 note, continued for some time, when it breaks into the abrupt 

 kuruwuk, kuruwiik, kurmm'ik, also repeated for a long while 

 together, of B. asiaticus, the note of which species differs only in 

 not being preceded by the introductory roll. Specimens from 

 Ceylon are invariably smaller, having the wing commonly 4^ in., 

 and the throat and under parts are generally of a darker colour. 

 A Nilgiri specimen, the only one we have seen from S. India, is 

 of intermediate size, the wing measuring 4^ in. ; the brown of 

 the nape passes on to the back and even the scapularies ; and 

 there do not appear to have been any pale specks tipjjing the 

 wing-coverts ; but the skin is not in good order, and its feathers 

 are old and worn.* Whether the Ceylon bird here noticed is 

 really that figured and described in Brown's ' Zoology,' as the 

 ' Yellow-cheeked Barbet,' remains to be ascertained. M. Drapiez, 

 describing, we presume, from Levaillant's figure (Ois. Par., pi. 

 38 , gives 7 in. 3 1. (French) as the length, with beak and naked 

 skin surrounding the eyes red, from Ceylon. This is both too 

 small for the bird before us, the length of which is about 94 in. 



* Of those of the Dukhun, Col. Sykes gives the total length as 8 7-lOths 

 in., inclusive of tail of 2 7-lOths in. "The bii-d," he remarks, "is con- 

 sequently smaller than Major Franklin's, who gives 10 in. as the length." 



