MEGAL^MA FLAVIFRONS. 
(GOLDEN-FRONTED BARBET). 
Le Bat-hut a front d^or 
Bucco Jlavifrons 
Cyanops Jlavifrons 
Bucco aurifrons 
(1806) Levaill. Barbus, pi. 55. 
(1817) Cuv. Eegiie Anim. I, p. 42B. 
(1857) Blyth, Ibis, p. 297. 
(1831) Temin. PI. Col. texte. 
M. viridis: fronte et vitta ad basin mandibulee inferioris, aureis: gutture, regione parotica et superciliis 
Isete cyaneis. 
Hab. in insula Ceylonensi. 
Forehead and a spot at the base of the lower mandible bright golden yellow ; head 
and sides of the neck bright green, the shafts of the feathers yellowish white, giving a 
striped appearance ; the rest of the upper surface of the body bright grass green, blueish 
on the wing-coverts ; the upper tail-coverts obscurely margined with brighter green ; 
quills brown, yellow at the base of the inner web, the outer web, especially of the 
secondaries broadly margined with grass green ; tail deep green above, blueish beneath; 
ear- coverts, eyebrow, and throat bright verditer blue ; rest of the under surface of tlie 
body bright green, lighter on the breast, the feathers of which are transversely scallopped 
with darker green; bill brownish black, paler at the base of the lower mandible. Total 
length 9 inches, of wing 4'0, tail 2-75, tarsus I'O. 
Hab. Ceylon. 
Megalcema Jlavifrons is apparently peculiar to the island of Ceylon, where it is 
common in suitable localities. Like the allied species of Continental India, M. asiatica 
Additional references. — Megalcema Jlavifrons, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 143 (1850); Blytli, Journ. 
As. See. Beng. 1852, p. 179 ; Tenn. Ceylon, pp. 178 — 81 ; Golf, in Sclil. Mus. Pays Bas, Buccones, p. 23 
(1862) ; Blytli, Ibis, 1866, p. 227, et Ibis, 1867, p. 297 ; Gray, Cat. Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 8 (1868). 
