392 A FIRST LIST OF THE BIRDS 
Cardamon Hills, 3°8. 
Mangalore, 3°85. 
Aujango, 3°75, 3°7, 3°7, 4, 3°8. 
Assamboo Hills, 3°8, 3:9. 
Captain Lloyd gives the wing of his type specimen as 4:3. [I 
have no Matheran bird in which the wing exceeds 4°2; but 
I have an Ooty bird with a wing 4°4. 
I think Megalaima Sykesi may be suppressed. 
198.—Xantholaima malabarica, Blyth. 
“This species is very common throughout the low country, 
and during the hot weather ascends the lower slopes of the hills. 
Its call, as Jerdon mentions, is similar to that of the crimson- 
breasted Barbet (X. hemacephala), but the two are easy to be 
distinguished from each other. My brother obtained two fresh 
eges of this species early in March at an elevation of about 
500 feet above sea level. The eggs were white, smooth, and 
glossless, measuring 0°64 by 0°62; and 1 by 0°66. They were 
placed without any attempt at a nest in a hole cut by the birds 
in a dead branch about 20 feet from the ground.—F. W. B.” 
205.—Heirococcyx varius, Vahi. 
“ Abundant in the semi-cultivated land of the plains and 
occasionally penetrating the jungles at the foot of the hills to 
1,000 feet elevation. Never ascends the hill slopes to any 
height, though common in the low country.—F. W. B.” 
A female measured:—Length, 13°25; expanse, 22:25; wing, 
76; tail, 6°75; tarsus, 1:0; bill from gape, straight to point, 
1°25. 
233.—Leptocoma minima, Sykes. 
“This beautiful little bird is common on the edges of forest 
and is slightly gregarious in habit, three or four hunting about 
together amongst the boughs of some Gamboge tree, which is a 
tree they seem particularly to like. They are not at all shy, and 
when sitting quiet in thick brushwood, I have seen them perch 
inquisitively within a few feet of my face. I have not obtained 
the eggs of this species, but Mr. Ferguson observed a pair 
commence a hanging nest at the extreme end of a Gamboge 
bough at some height from the ground. Unfortunately the 
birds left the nest unfinished.—F. W. B.” 
Two males measured inthe flesh:—Length, 3:5, 3°7; expanse, 
5°37, 5°62; wing, 1°81, 1:8; tail, 1-0, 1°1 ; tarsus, 0°48, 0°5. 
