Notes. 419^ 



tills emargination commences nearly or quite an inch below the 

 line of these covertsj and the bulge is visible at a glance." 



Captain J. Hayes Lloyd remarks in the last number of the 

 *'Ibis" : " I find, as I have long suspected, that the small green barbet 

 of western India is distinct from the Megalmnia viridis of Malabar 

 and Southern India being distinguishable by its greater size and 

 more pronounced markings. In the Messrs. MarshalPs Mono- 

 graph of the Capitonidse, reference is made under M.. viridis (the 

 color of the bill of which, by the way, is given correctly in the 

 letter press, but wrongly in the plate) to a bird obtained by 

 Col. Sykes in the Deccan^ the dimensions of which were toa 

 large for M. viridis, and too small for M. caniceps. To any one 

 possessing local knowledge, the locality quoted must seem vao-ue ;. 

 but I have little doubt that Col. Sykoses bird was the species of 

 which I am now writing, and that it was obtained in the 

 Mawuls, a tract of hilly country dividing the Deccan from, the- 

 Western Ghauts, I therefore propose to distinguish the small 

 green barbet of Western India as 



Megaleema Sykesi, Sp. Nov. 



Description. — Very similar to M. viridis, but the brown of 

 the head and nape paler, with a coppery gloss ; the feathers of 

 the head pale edged, those of the nape, with pale central streaks; 

 throat whitish ; breast and sides of neck, whitish, each feather- 

 broadly margined bierally with dark brown ; wing coverts^ un- 

 spotted; bill, horny brown. 



Dimensions, length, 9 inches;, wing, 4'3j tail, 3. 



This species is abundant in most of the mountainous wooded 

 tracts of Western India. I have obtained it in the Peint and 

 Soorungun districts, which border the Khandeish Dangs_, all 

 along the Western Ghauts, and on the summit of Matheran, 

 and other detached hills in the Konkan, everywhere to the ex- 

 clusion of M. viridis, which seems to bear the same relationship 

 to M. Syhesi that M. ze'ylonica. does to M.. canicejis. 



SijsiDH AviEAUNA- — Mr. E. James, c. s., has sent me specimens, 

 of ten more species of birds which occur in Sindh and which 

 must be added to my long list (given at p. 148, et seq., of the- 

 present vol.) of the birds of that province. 



112.— Caprimulgus asiaticus, Lath. 



" Not uncommon about Sehwan." 



