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greenish yellow. Irides reddish hazel ; nude orbital skin tinged 

 with orange ; the lids witli a circlet of orange wart-like papillae, 

 forming the orbits ; legs greenish ash}'. Young similar, but the 

 colours of the head and neck less vivid, the red being mixed with 

 green, and the dusky transverse coronal band with blue. 

 Exceedingly common in Lower Bengal, and northward to the 

 sub-Himalayan region ; likewise abundant in Assam, Sylhet, 

 Tipperah ; becoming rai-e in Arracan. Capt. Hutton notices this 

 species and B. indicus as being common in the Deyra Doon, 

 neither of them occurring ever in the hills. Its voice has been 

 mentioned under the notice of B. caniceps. 



B. FRANKLiNii, Blyth, J. A. S. xi. 167. — Length about 8 in.; 

 of wing 3f to 4 in. ; and tail 2^ in. ; bill to forehead | to 1 inch. 

 Colour green, much yellower below ; the shoulders of the wings, 

 and margins of the primaries, blue ; forehead and occiput 

 crimson ; the crown and throat orange-yellow, often tinged with 

 crimson on the crown and at the corners of the gape, lores and 

 sincipita black ; ear-coverts, and continued round in a half circle 

 below the orange throat, a sort of whity-brown. Bill black. 

 Young similar, but the colours of the head and throat are less 

 brilliant. Common in the S.E. Himalaya, as in Nepal and 

 Sikim ; also at Cherra Punji, and doubtless therefore inhabiting 

 the mountain ranges of Assam. 



B. INDICUS, L. ; B. 'pMllppensis, Gm. ; B. flavicollis, Vieillot ; 

 B. ruhricollis, Cuv. ; B. luteus, Lesson, albino variety (Jerdon). 

 Chota Biissunt-bairi, Beng. ; Kut-Khora, H., also Tambayut, i.e. 

 ' Coppersmith,' which name it receives also from some European 

 residents (Jerdon) ; Chanda, Sumatra ; Engku, Java. — Length 

 6f in., by 11 in. ; wing 3 to Sj in. ; tail Ij in. ; bill to forehead 

 f in. Colour green above, with a slight ruddy tinge, the feathers 

 more or less margined with yellowish ; below yellowish white, 

 streaked with green ; the whitish predominating on the middle of 

 the belly ; broad frontal space, and a wide gorget, crimson ; 

 throat, and above and below the eye, sulphur-yellow ; below the 

 crimson gorget is a narrow crescent of golden-yellow ; band 

 across the crown, continued round to the yellow throat, and 

 including the moustaches, black ; a bluish tinge on the occijjut 

 and sides of the neck, and on the margins of the great alars and 

 tail. Bill black. Irides dark hazel ; nude orbital skin dull 

 crimson. Feet pale crimson, or coral-red, with contrasting black 



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