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a few miles out. A female measured : Length, 1 1 ; expanse, 

 18 j tail, from vent, 3 - 6; wing", 5*3; bill, from gape, l"8b; 

 tarsus, 1" 21. The feet were yellow ; claws, pale horny; eyelids 

 and bare orbital skin, bright yellow ; bill, fleshy, somewhat dusky 

 at the edges and paler at the gape/' 



195.— Cyanops asiatica, Lath. 



Identical with specimens from the Himalayas, Lower Bengal 

 and Arracan, but averaging perhaps a little smaller. 



Mr. Oates remarks : " This species is very common on both the 

 Arracan and Pegu Hills, but I have never shot it, nor even heard 

 it in the forty miles of plains or undulating ground which stretch 

 eastward from Thayetmyo to the foot of the Hills. It occurs in 

 great numbers on the eastern slopes of the Pegu Hills nearly 

 up to Tonghoo. The bird breeds, I believe, in May. It is diffi- 

 cult to say whether its call should be considered to consist of 

 two or three notes. 'Kotiir', 'Kotiir', represents its call pretty 

 well, but often there appears to be a third indistinct note. 

 The call of the smaller Barbet (cyanotis, Blyth) is distinctly two 

 notes only, and is feebler and more metallic. A specimen from 

 the Arracan Hills measured 9 - 8 in length, but four specimens 

 from the Pegu Hills varied as follows : Length, 8" 7 to 93 ; ex- 

 panse, 12 - 75 to 14; tail, from vent, 2'8 to 3"05 ; wing, 4 to 4*1 ; 

 bill, from gape, 1*42 to 1'51 ; tarsus, 1'08 to 1*13. 



" The iris was reddish hazel ; the edges of eyelids, beaded dusky 

 orange ; eyelids, orange brown. The inside of the mouth, dusky 

 blue ; legs, pale green ; claws, greenish horny ; upper mandible, 

 dark brown ; the base, greenish yellow ; the lower mandible, 

 yellow, dark brown at the edges on the terminal half/'' 



197— Xantholsema hsemacephala, Mull. 



Specimens from Thayetmyo differ in no appreciable degree 

 from others from all parts of India, the Malay Peninsula, and 

 Sumatra. Both Mr. Oates and Captain Feilden remark that this 

 species is common throughout the country. 



198 quat— Xantholsema cyanotis, Blyth. 



Mr. Oates tells us that this species is " common in the Ever- 

 green Forests of the Pegu Hills. Its note is very distinct from 

 that of asiatica. The bird I shot was moving about the top 

 branches of a tree much as hamacephala would. It breeds, I judge, 

 early in May. A male measured : Length, 6 - 7 ; expanse, 11 ; tail, 

 from vent, 2-15 ; wing, 3" 2 ; bill, from gape, 1'03 ; tarsus, 0* 83. 



" The bill was black ; the inside of the mouth, bluish black ; 

 eyelids and naked skin of face, dusky plumbeous; iris, dark 

 brown ; legs, dull greenish yellow ; claws, black." 



