THE BLUE-FACED BAUBET. 
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and clearings. Its loud note of ko-poh is uttered incessantly throngliout 
the day, and is one of the most wearisome sounds the traveller in the jungle 
has to put up with. I have not taken the eggs of this species_, but in May 
I have found the nest-holes with young birds. 
515. CYANOPS ASIATICA. 
THE BLUE-FACED BARBET. 
Trogon asiaticus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 201. Cyanops asiatica, Jerd. B. Ind. i. 
p. 313 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 130 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 77. Megalaema asiatica, 
Marsh. Mon. Capit. pi. xxix. ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 73 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. 
p. 584 ; Hume 8f Dav, S. F. vi. p. 151 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88 ; Scully, S. F. viii. 
p. 252. 
Description. — Male and female. Chin^ throaty cheeks_, ear-coverts and a 
supercilium blue ; another supercilium^ superior to this^ and a band across 
the crown black ; the forehead and crown_, a spot at the base of the lower 
mandible on each side^ so small as to be barely visible in some specimens, 
and a large spot on each side the base of the throat crimson ; the whole 
plumage green^ bright above^ yellower beneath ; quills dark brown, edged 
with bluish green; the underside of the tail blue. 
Iris reddish hazel ; edges of the eyelids dusky orange ; eyelids themselves 
orange-brown ; upper mandible greenish yellow at base and dark brown 
on the remainder ; lower mandible greenish yellow; mouth dusky blue; 
legs pale green ; claws greenish horn. 
Length 9*2 inches, tail 3, wing 4, tarsus 1, bill from gape 1*5. The 
female is a trifle smaller. 
The Blue-faced Barbet, as far as I have observed it in Pegu, appears to 
be confined to the dense evergreen forests on the eastern side of the Pegu 
hills. Capt. Wardlaw Bamsay, however, met with it at Tonghoo and on 
the hills further east, where it was common. In Tenasserim Mr." Davison 
observed it in the northern portion of the Division only, about Kollidoo 
and Pahpoon and nowhere else. With regard to Arrakan, Mr. Blyth 
records it from that Division, and it is no doubt common. 
It ranges through the Indo-Burmese countries into India, and is found 
in Bengal and along the sub-Himalayan region as far as the Jumna 
river. 
This Barbet is entirely confined to dense forests, where it keeps to the 
top of the highest trees, uttering all day its cry of kooteruk, hooterukj'* 
It breeds in April ; but I have not been able to find its eggs 
