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BIRDS OF BEITISH BURMAH. 
Mr. Davison met with it on the higher slopes of Mooleyit mountain, and 
Capt. Bingham in the Thoungyeen valley. It appears to be most common 
at elevations of from 3000 to 5000 feet. 
Nothing particular is recorded of its habits. 
Mr. Blyth notes C. franMinii from Tenasserim on the authority of Col. 
Tickell ; but I have no doubt the birds so designated were C ramsayi, those 
naturalists not deeming the slight differences in the two birds of much 
importance. 
Other species of this genus are : — C. phceostriata, described from Cochin 
China some fifty years ago_, and not again rediscovered ; it somewhat 
resembles C. hodgsoni, but has a supercilium and the cheeks bright green. 
The next three species occur in the Malayan peninsula, and may ultimately 
be found to extend to Tenasserim : C. versicolor, a very brightly plumaged 
bird, the head being of many colours, with the whole throat bright blue ; 
C. chrysopogon, also of gaudy plumage, with bright yellow moustachial 
bands ; and C. henricii, with the forehead and sides of the crown bright 
golden yellow. 
Genus XANTHOL^MA, Bona:p, 
519. XANTHOL^MA H^MACEPHALA. 
THE CRIMSON-GORGETED BARBET. 
Bucco haemacephalus, P. L. S. Mull. Natursyst. Sujjpl. p. 88 ; Bucco indicus, 
Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 205. Xantholsema indica, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 315 ; Wold. 
Ibis, 1871, p. 162. Xantholsema haemacephala, Marsh. Mon. Capit. pi. xlii. ; 
Wald. Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 156 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 131 ; id. S. F. iii. 
p. 77 ; Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 311 j Oates, S. F. v. p. 144 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. 
vi. p. 155 j Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 218 ; Hume, S. F. yin. p. 88 ; Scully, S. F. 
viii. p. 253 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 167 ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 390. Megalasma 
haemacephala, Bl, B. Burm.. p. 74. 
Description. — Male and female. Chin, throat, a spot over the eye and 
one under it yellow ; forehead and crown back to the eyes and a band 
across the breast crimson ; cheeks, ear-coverts and a band over the crown 
black j sides of the neck greenish slate-colour; upper plumage, including 
the Aving-coverts and tertiaries, green, the nape tinged with blue ; primaries 
and secondaries black, the outer webs edged with green ; tail green, the 
inner webs edged with brown ; lower plumage dull yellow, broadly 
streaked with green, and with a patch of deep yellow on the breast next 
the crimson. 
Bill black, bluish at the gape and base of lower mandible mouth 
