THE BLUE-EARED BAUBET. 
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bluish ; eyelids red, the edges brown ; iris brown ; legs coral-red ; claws 
dark horn. 
Length 6*8 inches^ tail 1*8, wing S'4, tarsus •8_, bill from gape 1. The 
female is rather smaller. 
The Crimson-gorgeted Barbet, or, as it is frequently called, the Copper- 
smith/' is found abundantly in every portion of the Province and in 
Karennee. 
It is spread over the Indo-Burmese countries and the whole peninsula 
of India with Ceylon, and it occurs in Siam, Cochin China, the Mala}^ 
peninsula, Sumatra and the Philippine Islands ; it probably also inhabits 
Borneo. 
The Coppersmith is a familiar well-known little bird, found mostly in 
open country and in gardens and compounds. It is also seen in all thick 
forests, but not so numerously as elsewhere. Its note, which somewhat 
resembles the sound caused by tapping a piece of metal with a hammer, is 
uttered throughout the day, the bird being generally perched on the 
topmost bough of a tree, and directing its voice in all directions by turning 
its head. It breeds in March and April, laying either two or three eggs in 
a hole of a tree, usually at no great height from the ground. From April 
to the end of the rainy season this Barbet becomes comparatively silent. 
620. XANTHOL^MA CYANOTIS. 
THE BLUE-EABED BAEBET. 
Bucco cyanotis, Bl J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 465. Megalsema cyanotis, Marsh. Mon. 
Capit. pi. xxxiii. fig. 3 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 74 ; IIu7ne 8f I)av. 8. F. vi. p. 155 ; 
Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 166 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 192. 
Xantholsema cyanotis, Hume, S. F. iii, p. 77. 
Description. — Male and female. The forehead, a line over the eye, ear- 
coverts, chin and throat dull blue ; the forward half of the crown and a 
patch at the base of the lower mandible black tinged with green ; a patch 
under the eye and a broad streak under and over the ear-coverts red ; 
remainder of the plumage green, darker above and yellower below ; 
primaries and secondaries dark brown edged with green ; there is a tinge 
of blue on various parts of the body, especially the abdomen and tail. 
Bill black ; mouth bluish black ; eyelids and naked skin of face blackish 
plumbeous ; iris dark brown ; legs dull greenish yellow ; claws black. 
Length 6*7 inches, tail 2*2, wing 3*2, tarsus '8, bill from gape 1*05. 
X duvaucelii, from the Malay peninsula, is closely allied; it differs 
chiefly in wanting the blue ear-coverts. 
