MEGALyEMA DUVAUCELIL 
(THE SO ARLET-E AllED B A U B E T.) 
Bucco duvaucelii (1831) Lesson ; Traite d'Orn, p. 164. 
„ frontalis . . . . . (1832) Temm. ; PI. Col. 536. f. 1. 
„ gutturalis ..... (1832) Boie ; Briefe aus Ost-Ind. no. 15. 
„ trimaculatus (1832)" J. E. Gray; Zool. Misc. I. p. 3, pi. 3. 
„ australis (1820) EalEes ; Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 285 (ncc Horsf.). 
Megalaima trimaculnta .... (1846) G. R. Gray ; Gen. of Birds, II. p. 429. 
duvaucelii .... (1859) Moore ; P. Z. S. p. 455. 
Tanda or Tanhak of the Malays (Oantor). 
M. sexibus similibus : minima : viridis : gutture cyaneo ; fronte nigra : regione parotica coceinea. 
Hab. in subregione Indo-Malayana. 
Sexes alike ; body green ; forehead and top of the head black, becoming bluish towards 
the nape ; a stripe behind the eye running down the neck, one large one at the base of the 
upper mandible, and one on each side of the throat scarlet ; occiput and nape green, a little 
paler than the back ; upper plumage dark green ; quills brown, exterior webs edged with 
green, inner webs pale yellowish at the base ; throat cindery blue, a black band across the 
upper breast (differing in width according to age); under surface light grass-green; tail 
underneath bluish green ; bill horn-black, whitish at the base of the lower mandible ; feet 
dark horn-brown. 
The young bird differs by the absence of all the bright coloration of the head and 
throat, the entire head being green, with a faint tinge of orange on the forehead, and the 
cheeks and throat slightly washed with blue. 
Hab. Borneo (Wallace); Sumatra {Baffles); Malayan peninsula {Cantor). To the 
Additional references. — Bucco duvaucelii: Hartlaub (1841), Rev. Zool. p. 337- Bucco frontalis : Lesson (1839), 
Rev. ZooL p. 137; Hartlaub: (1841), Rev. Zool. p. 337. Bucco trimaculatus: Eyton (1839), P. Z. S. p. 105; 
Hartlaub (1841), Rev. Zool. p. 337; Blyth (1847), Journ. As. Soc. Beng. p. 465. Bucco australis: Blyth (1846), 
Journ. As. Soc. p. 13. Megalaima duvaucelii: Goflftn (1863), Cat. Mus. Pays Bas, Bucc. p. 28 ; G. R. Gray (1868), 
Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 11 ; Gray (1870), Hand-1, of B. II. p. 174. 
