MEGALiEMA LINEATA. 
(LINEATED BARBET.) 
Capita lineata (1816) Vieill. N.D. IV, p. 500. 
Biicco leueorhynchus .... (1820) Eeinw. Batav. Oourant. 
Bucco fuscicapiUus .... (1822) Drap. Diet. Class, d'Hist. Nat. ii., p. 195. 
Bucco lineatus (1849) Blyth, Cat. Mus. A.S. Beng., pi. 66 fpartimj. 
Megalmma viridis. .... (1863) Groffin in ScU. Mus. Pays Bas, Buccones, p. 32 
Megalmia lineata .... (1868) Grray, Cat. Capit. Brit. Mus., p. 12. 
Megalcema hodgsoni .... (1866) Walden, P.Z.S., p. 540. 
Kroukrouk, of the Javanese (Boca/rme). 
M. viridis : gutture albescente : fronte bnmneo : capite, nuclia et pectore brunneis, albescenti striolatis. 
Hah. In subregione Indo-Malayana. 
General plumage bright grass-green ; head, nape and sides of the neck earthy-brown, 
each feather having a dirty white central streak, less defined on the top of the head, and 
almost indistinguishable on the forehead ; the feathers of the upper back green, similarly 
streaked with white ; quills brown, the exterior edge of the primaries green at the base, 
the secondaries more broadly edged with green, especially the innermost, which are almost 
entirely green ; chin dirty white ; throat, breast, and upper part of the abdomen of the 
same colour, each feather broadly margined with earthy-brown, with a slight greenish 
tinge ; lower part of the belly, vent and lower tail-coverts pale green with a blueish tinge ; 
the whole of the green parts of the plumage irregularly marked with faint blue spots more 
or less conspicuous in different specimens ; bill fleshy white, yellowish at the base ; legs 
and feet dirty yellow ; irides reddish brown, naked orbital skin citron yellow. Length 10 
inches ; wing 4*5 ; tail 3-25 ; tarsus 1*0. 
Hoh. Countries bordering the Bay of Bengal, south of Assam, down to Malacca and 
Java. Pegu, Tenasserim {Blytli)^ Kyodan, Tenasserim {Walden)., Java {Sddegel), 
