468 CLASS AVES. • 



have brilliant colours. They live in pairs in the 

 breeding season, and in small bands the rest of the 

 year. 



Great Barhet. B. Grandis. Enl. 87] . 



Changeable green, with the quills varied with black ; 

 head and neck, blue ; vent, red. China and India. 



Green Barhet. B. Viridis. Enl. 87O. 



Green, with head and neck greyish brown; white 

 spot near the eye. India. 



Yellow-fronted Barhet. B. Flavifrons. Cuv. Vaill. 

 Ois. de Par. 55. 



Top of head and back of neck, olive-green ; about the 

 cheeks and throat, blue ; body and wings, green ; 

 paler, beneath. Ceylon. 



Blue-throated Barhet. B. Cyanops. Cuv. id. ih. 

 21, or Capita Cyanocollis. Vieill. Gal. 35. 



Head, red, streaked with black ; throat and crop, blue ; 

 occiput and body above, green ; beneath, pale-green. 

 India. 



' LatharrCs Barhet. B. Lathami. Lath. Syn. pi. 22. 



Greenish ; quills, dark ; face and chin, brown. 



Yellow-throated Barhet. B. Philippensis. Enl. 333. 



Green ; beneath, yellow, spotted with olive ; throat 

 and sides of the head, yellow ; top of tlie head, red. 

 Philippine Islands, 



