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more of a Prussian blue than in A. grandis, ispida, and hengalensis : wing 

 three inches ; depth of bill about three-eighths of an inch. Another 

 closely allied species is the A. meninting, Horsf., v. asiatica of Swain- 

 son's Illustrations, which has the crown, neck, and wings, mottled indigo 

 blue, scarcely any moustache, the back and upper tail- coverts ultrama- 

 rine, and the breast and flanks deeper and richer ferruginous than in the 

 others. — A. biru, Horsf., is another beautiful little Malayan Kingfisher, 

 of a predominating light verditer-blue above and across the breast, but 

 the marking of its under-parts allies it to certain African Kingfishers, as 

 A. semitorquatus, and another which I have been unable to determine. 



BucconidcB (Barbets). There are three, if not four, species of Indian 

 Barbets, having the general plumage of B. caniceps, Franklin, the dis- 

 tinctions of which may be advantageously pointed out. — 1. B. lineatus, 

 ~-f- y^ Vieillot, apud Diet. Class. ; described to inhabit Sumatra. Length about 



ten inches, the wing five to five and a quarter. Upper-parts green, 

 weaker on the flanks, and still paler and more yellowish on the vent 

 and lower tail-coverts, spreading over the abdominal region in some: 

 head, neck, throat, and breast, whitish, confined on the crown to an ill 

 defined medial streak on each feather, the rest being dusky; 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 ; the sides of the neck and breast having each feather laterally 

 margined with dusky-brown, the whitish however much predominating. 

 Common in some parts of Bengal, and in Nepal, extending westward to 

 the Deyrah Doon; also in Assam, Sylhet, Arracan, and the Tenasserim pro- 

 vinces, whence it probably extends into Sumatra. — 2. B. caniceps, Frank- 

 lin ; B. lineatus, apud Tickell. Rather smaller, the wing measuring 

 from four inches and a half to four and seven-eighths, though rarely 

 exceeding four and three-quarters. The general plumage also similar ; 

 but the head, throat, and breast, much darker ; the throat dusky-brown 

 instead of whitish ; and pectoral feathers with merely a narrow, ill 

 defined, pale central streak, often scarcely present ; lower breast paler : 

 the back commonly more streaked with whitish than in B. lineatus : 

 and, what constitutes a ready distinction of B. caniceps, the wing-coverts 

 aud tertiaries have each a terminal whitish speck, of which there is 

 never the slightest trace in the other. This species inhabits the penin- 

 sula generally, and Upper India, meeting B. lineatus in the Doon ; but 



