Genus XANTHOL.EMA. 



Bill shorter and wider at the base than in Megalama ; culmen more arched ; loral bristles 

 very long. Wings with the 2nd quill the longest, the 3rd only slightly less than it. Legs and 



feet as in the last genus. 



XANTHOL^MA EUBRICAPILL A. 



(THE LITTLE CEYLON BARBET*.) 



(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 



Bucco rubricapillus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 408 (1788); Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, pp. 386, 



464. 

 Bucco lathami, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 408 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 205 (1790); Cuv. 



Keg. An. i. p. 45 (1829). 

 Capito riibricapillus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. p. 449 (1816). 

 Capito lathami, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. p. 449 (1816). 

 Megalaima rubricapilla, G. B. Gray, Gen. Birds, p. 429 (1846) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. 



p. 127 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 448; Goff. Mus. Pays- 



Bas, Buccones, p. 26 (1863). 

 Megalaima lathami, G. R. Gray, Gen. Birds, p. 429. 

 Megalcema rubricapilla, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 68(1849); Bonap. Consp. Ay. 



p. 144 (1850). 

 Xantholcema rubricapilla, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 646 ; Blyth, Ibis, 



1867, p. 297; Marshall, Monogr. Capit. pi. 44 (1871); Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, 



p. 430; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 15, et 1875, p. 284. 

 Le Barbet a couronne rouge, or the Bed-erotvned Barbet, Brown, 111. xiv. (1776); Le Cabezon 



a couronne rouge, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. p. 497 ; The Rose-crowned Barbet, 



Marshall ; The Bed-fronted Barbet, The " Copper-smith," also Bell-bird, Europeans in 



Ceylon. 

 Mal-kotoruwa, lit. " Flower-Bai-bet " (from its gay colours). 



S ad. prasinus, plumis quibusdani cyaneo lavatis : remigibus saturate bruuneis, extiis dorsi colore lavatis : cauda 

 viridi : narium plumis flavis : linea angusta frontali nigra : vertice et fronte searlatinis postea nigro marginatis : 

 striga supra- et infraoeulari flava : facie laterali genisque viridi -eyaneis : gutture toto ltete flavo, macula jugulari 

 scarlatina : corpore reliquo subtiis viridi flavo lavata : subalaribus flavidis : rostro nigro, ad basin schistaceo : 

 pedibus saturate corallinis : iride rufescenti-brunneii. 



Adult male and female. Length 6 - to 6-2 inches ; wing 3 - to 3-15 ; tail l - 4; tarsus - 75 ; outer anterior toe and 

 claw - 75 ; posterior toe 0-65 ; bill to gape 0'85 to 09. 



* This species has usually been styled the " Bed-fronted Barbet ;" but the next, though not so called, has also a 

 red forehead ; and therefore, taken in reference to Ceylon ornithology, the present name will, I think, be better. 



