EAMSAY'S BARBET. 
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there is not, I believe, a specimen in any English, musenm. It appears to 
belong to this genus. 
In addition to the above diagnosis, Mr. Hume states that the bright 
crimson lores and frontal band, the yellow eye-ring, and the long and 
extremely strongly marked black superciliary and gape-stripes serve to 
distinguish this species at a glance, 
Hume^s Barbet occurs in Tenasserim about Amherst and Yea, and in 
the vicinity of Tavoy j and C apt. Bingham records it as common in the 
Thoungyeen valley at certain seasons. 
Mr. Davison remarks that the note and habits of this species are similar 
to those of C. asiatica. At Tavoy it was met with in thin tree-jungle. 
518. CYANOPS RAMSAYI. 
BAMSAY^S BABBET. 
Megalsema ramsayi, Wald. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xv. p. 400 ; id. in Bl. B. Burm. 
p. 74 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 402 ; Wardlaiu Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 457 ; Hume ^ 
Dav. S. F. vi. p. 152 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88. 
Description. — Male and female. Forehead and a patch on the nape crim- 
son ; crown shining yellow ; lores black ; a broad supercilium and a patch 
under the eye with mixed streaks of grey and black ; ear-coverts silvery 
grey ; a patch at the gape yellow tinged with red ; chin and upper throat 
golden yellow j lower throat, fore neck and under ear-coverts dull grey ; a 
thin band of bright greenish blue joining the ear-coverts, runs over the 
back of the neck, bounding the bright colours of the head ; a patch of 
black between the supercilium and the red nape-spot ; remainder of the 
plumage green, yellower below j lesser wing-coverts deep purplish blue, 
which colour passes on to the edge of the wing and the outer webs of some 
of the primaries ; quills dark brown on the inner webs, green on the outer; 
under wing- coverts whitish ; tail uniform dark green. 
Bill horn-brown, dirty white at the gape and sides ; orbits dark brown ; 
iris nut-brown ; legs and feet pale greenish plumbeous ; claws horny. 
[Bingham, MS.) 
Length 9*2 inches, tail 2*5, wing 4, tarsus I, bill from gape 1*4. The 
female is of the same size. 
This species is very close to C. franklinii from India, and differs from it 
only in having the supercilium mixed with grey instead of having it pure 
black. 
Bamsay^s Barbet was discovered by Capt. Wardlaw Bamsay in Karennee, 
and he subsequently found it common in the hills east of Tonghoo. 
