288 A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology. [No. 4, 



and Malacca, but I have not obtained it from farther North. Ma- 

 lacca specimens measure : wing 4|" ; tail 2\\" ; bill at front 1 |", from 

 gape very nearly 2", tarsus very nearly l£" y the longest bristles 

 reach beyond the tip of the bill. 



1 6. Cyanops mysticophanes, T e m m. 



Bvcco quadricolor, Eyton, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1839, p. 105. 



Ey ton ' s description applies to the bird in full plumage. The 

 forehead and a short mustachial streak are golden yellow, lores, top 

 of head and occiput, chin and front of throat and a spot on oath 

 side of the front breast deep crimson, supraciliaries, cheek- 

 throat azure blue ; streak through the eye blackish ; general colour 

 above deep green, paler grass green below, all the feathers on the 

 neck and front breast with a golden lustre, quills slightly margin- 

 ed with fulvous on the outer web, all wing feathers blackish brown 

 on the inner webs and margined fulvous, this being especially con- 

 spicuous on the inner side of the wings ; tail below bluish green. 

 Temminck's figure does not shew the coloration of the head 

 clear enough. 



In other (? female) specimens with the green plumage per- 

 fectly developed, the front part of the head is partially greenish, 

 partially yellow, sometimes intermixed with blue ; chin and front 

 throat are yellow, intermixed with red, the mustachial streak is 

 like the cheek blue, the crimson on the occiput is of smaller extent. 



This species is common at Malacca, Penan g, and in the Welles" 

 ley Province. Wing 3J"-3|" ; tail 2 T V'— 2,"/ I bill at front 1^, 

 from gape If" ; tarsus 1" ; the longest bristles slightly reach be- 

 yond the tip of the bill. 



Hartlaub's description of his JBuceo Jfalaccensis seems to 

 indicate a distinct and smaller species. 



17. XANTHOL.EMA DlJVAUCELII, L e S S. 



B. frontalis, Tern m., Planches Col. 536, fig. 1. 



Head including lores and occiput blue, somewhat dusky in front, 

 a short stripe behind the supraciliary edge, cheek in front and mus- 

 tachial stripe crimson, behind the eye and ear-coverts greenish, tinged 

 blue, chin and throat in front purely greenish blue, with a very 

 small dark gorget ; rest of plumage above deep green, below yel- 



