P I C A R I M. 

 Fam. CAPLTONID^B. 



Bill large, wide at the base, conic, inflated at the sides, the margins toothed in some ; the 

 culmen curved, the base of the upper mandible continued backwards to the gape; the tips of 

 both mandibles acute ; base of the bill furnished with bristles. Tail short and soft, of ten feathers. 

 Feet zygodactyle. Sternum with the keel low and the posterior edge with two emarginations on 

 each side. 



Subfam. MEGAL^MIN.E. 



Bill with the margin of the upper mandible smooth, variable in length ; shorter than the 

 head in some, longer in others. 



Genus MEGALJEMA. 



Bill conical, stout, wide at base, compressed towards tip ; upper mandible overlapping the 

 under at the gape, which is wide ; culmen more or less arched. Nostrils exposed and in a basal 

 groove parallel to the culmen, protected by long bristles pointing forwards. Lores, gape, and 

 chin furnished with similar tufts. Wings short, the tertials comparatively long ; 1st quill short, 

 4th and 5th subequal and longest. Tarsus longer than the long anterior toe, scutellated before 

 ind behind. Feet zygodactyle, with stout scales; the anterior toes syndactyle. 



megalj:ma zeylanica. 



(THE BROWN-HEADED BARBET.) 

 (Peculiar to Ceylon.) 



Bucco zeylanicus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 408 (1788). 



Cwpito zeilanicus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iv. p. 499 (1816). 



Bucco zeilanicus, Cuv. Regne An. p. 457 (1829); Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. 184G, pp. 13, 282 ; 



Hartlaub, Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 337. 

 Megalaima caniceps, G. R. Gray, Gen. Birds, ii. p. 429 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 



p. GG, 1849 (in part), et J. A. S. B. 1851, xx. p. 181 (in part); Layard, Ann. & Mag. 



Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 44G ; Cassin, Orn. Rep. U.S. Exp. Japan, p. 242. 

 Bucco kottorea, Hartlaub, Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 337. 

 Bucco viridis, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 144 (1850). 

 Megalaima zeylanica, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1851, xx. p. 181 ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 127 



(1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 46; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. 



Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. G38 (1856); Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 311 (1862); G. R. Gray, Cat. 



B. Brit. Mus. Capitonidce, p. 13 (18G8); Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 429 ; Legge, Ibis, 



1874, p. 15. 



