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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Genus CYANOPS, Bomp. 
514. CYANOPS HODGSONI. 
THE LINEATED BARBET. 
Megalaema hodgsoni, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 144 ; Wald. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 540 ; 
Marsh. Mon. Capit. pi. xxxvi. ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 129 ; id. S. F. iii. 
p. 75; Bl, 8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 73; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 583; Hume 8^ 
Bav. S. F. vi. p. 151 ; Hume, S. F. yiil p. 88 ; Oates, S. F. viii. p. 166 ; Scully 
S. F. viii. p. 251 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 165. Megalaema lineata, apud Jerd. 
B. Ind. i. p. 309. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead^ crown and nape brown_, each 
feather tipped with whity brown_, the longer feathers o£ the nape with 
streaks of the same ; upper , back green^ each feather with a streak of 
whity brown; the upper plumage,, including wing-coverts, tertiaries and 
tail^ bright green ; primaries and secondaries blacky broadly edged with 
bright green, a few of the earlier primaries edged with light brown on the 
terminal halves ; chin and throat white ; sides of the head and of the neck^ 
breast and abdomen coloured like the crown^ the light streaks larger and 
occupying the centre of the feather ; sides of the body^ lower abdomen, 
vent^ thighs and under tail-coverts light green. 
Bill flesh-colouredj dusky at the edges and paler at the gape ; mouth 
flesh-colour ; iris brown ; eyelids, orbital skin and legs bright yellow ; claws 
horn- colour. 
Length 11*3 inches, tail 3*5, wing 5*2, tarsus I'l, bill from gape 1'7. 
The female is smaller. 
I have not been able to examine any specimens of the Lineated Barbet 
from Java, and they may be distinct from the Himalayan birds. It is 
therefore advisable to keep them apart for the present and to use Bona- 
parte^s name for the Burmese birds, which are undoubtedly identical with 
others from the Himalayas. 
The Lineated Barbet is found abundantly in all the forests of British 
Burmah, except in the extreme south of Tenasserim, where Mr. Davison 
did not meet with it. 
It extends on the east to Cochin China, where Dr. Tiraud states it is 
common; on the north, through the Indo-Burmese countries to India, 
where it occurs along the base of the Himalayas, both in the lower hills 
and in the plains. C. lineata, the J avan race, is met with in Java, and it 
is said to have been procured in Malacca ; but this latter locality appears 
to be somewhat doubtful. 
This Barbet frequents thick forests, and is not usually found in gardens 
