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34. Megalaima Zeylanica, Gmelin. — The Ceylon Barbet, 

 Kottoruwd, Sink.; Megalaima caniceps, Frank, (the Indian 

 species); — Layard, Annals Natural History, 1854, page 446, 



Very abundant throughout most parts of the low-country, more so 

 in the south than the north however ; extends up to about 2,000 

 feet in the Central and Southern Provinces. I did not find it in 

 the Kataragama districts, nor did Mr. Holdsworth in the north- 

 west ; it is however tolerably numerous in the north-eastern 

 jungles between the Central road and Trincomalee. It is more 

 abundant some little distance inland from the vicinity of Colombo 

 than anywhere else. 



35. Megalaima Flavifrons, Cuvier. — The yellow-fronted 

 Barbet; Kottoruwa, Sink. 



Southern, Western, and Central Provinces. Occurs in the Rayigam 

 Korale, some little distance from Colombo, and ranges into the 

 Central Province up to 3,000 feet, being particularly abundant in 

 all the coffee districts and patanas of that part; but, common as it 

 is there, it is nowhere so numerous as in the Kukulu Korale, 

 Siriha Rajah, and Udugama forests of the Southern Province. 

 Those magnificent reserves of timber too low for coffee cultivation, 

 and which sweep up and down the hills and valleys of that part, 

 stretching away for miles in an unbroken sea of green, without 

 scarcely a kurakkan clearing to arrest the eye, are the choice 

 resorts of most of our peculiar Ceylon species, and there they are 

 found in greater abundance than elsewhere. M. Flavifrons 

 inhabits all the hills on the banks of the Gindurah down to Kot- 

 towe forest, ten miles from Galle. 



36. Xanthol^ma Indica,Z«^. — The red-breasted Barbet, 

 "Copper-smith" of Europeans; Megalaima Philippensis, Briss.— 

 Layard, Annals Natural History, 1854, page 447 ; Kelaart, 

 Prodromus Faunae Zeylanica, page 127. 



Very abundant throughout the north, extending beyond Trincomalee 

 towards Batticaloa on the east, and down to the forests between 

 Kurunegala and Puttalam on the west. It is rare in the latter 

 district and very numerous in both jungle and cultivated country 

 between the Central road and Trincomalee. Holdsworth records 

 it as common at Aripu. 



37. Xanthol^ma Rubricapilla, Gmelin.— The red headed 

 Barbet, " Copper-smith" in the Western Province. Megalaima 

 rubricapilla, Gmelin. — Layard, Annals Natural History, 1854, 

 page 448 ; Kelaart, Prodromus Faunas Zeylanica, page 127. 



Most parts of- the low-country, except in the dry and hot districts 

 of the south-east and north-west, extending into the hills to about 

 1,000 feet. Layard records it from Batticaloa and Jaffna, Th§ 



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