310 birds of india. 



The Himalayan Green Bakbet. 



Descr. — Above, green ; a paler green on the flanks and lower 

 belly ; vent, and lower tail-coverts, yellowish ; head, neck, 

 throat, breast and upper abdomen, whitish, confined on the crown 

 of the head to an ill-defined medial streak on each feather, the 

 rest being pale-brown ; on the nape these streaks are contracted, 

 and better defined, often upon a green ground ; and they gradually 

 disappear on the back ; throat spotless whitish ; sides of the neck, 

 breast, and abdomen, with each feather, laterally margined with 

 dusky-brown. 



Bill orange horny-brown ; naked orbits deep yellow ; il-ides 

 brown ; legs dark yellow. 



Length 10^ inches ; wing 5;^ ; tail 3 ; extent 18 ; tarsus 1 ; bill 

 at front 1|. 



This Green Barbet is found throuffhout the whole extent of the 

 sub-Himalayan region, not ascending the hills beyond 1,000 or 2,000 

 feet, and even that rarely. It extends also to (Dacca) E. Bengal, 

 Assam, Sylhet, the whole Indo-Chinese region, and also (it is said) 

 to Sumatra; but the bird from Sumatra (as alleged), upon which 

 the name lineatas is founded, requires to be compared with 

 Indian or Burmese specimens. Its voice is very loud. I procured 

 it quite at the foot of the Himalayas, in the Sikim Terai. 



193. Megalaima caniceps, Franklin. 



Bucco, apud Franklin — Blytii, Cat. 318— HoRSF.,Cat. 924 — 

 B. lineatus, apud Tickell — B. viridis fin part), apud Jerdon, 

 Cat. 217 — B. zeylanicus, apud Jerdon, 2nd suppl., Cat. 217, bis — 

 Biirra bussunta, Beng. — Kutumra, H., in the Deccan — Kudrunga, 

 Hindi, in Central India — Cuturgd, Mahr. — Kutur haki, Can. — 

 Gandu Icarnam, Tel. 



The Common Green Barbet. 



Descr. — General colour of M. lineata, but the brown much 

 predominating over the whitish on the head, neck, andunder-parts; 

 the throat, more especially, being always dusky-brown, instead of 

 whitish; the pale streaks to the feathers of these parts more reduced 

 and narrow, and they are commonly more continued, though gradually 



