MEGALiEMA ZEYLANICA. 
(THE BROWN-HEADED CEYLON liARBET.) 
Bucco zeyhnlcm (1788) Gmelin ; S.N., I. p. -108. 
Le hottorea (180G) Le Vaill. ; Barbus pi. ;38. 
Capita zeilanicm (1816) Vieill. ; N. Diet. d'Hibt. Nat. IV. p. 499. 
Le cahezon hottorea (1816) Do. Do. Do 
MegaUima canicepn (1840) Ct. E. Gray ; Gen. of Birds II. p. 429. 
J} ucco hottorea (1841) Hartlaub ; Eev. Zool. p. 337. 
viridis (1850) Bonaparte; Oonsp. Av. I. p. 144. 
MegaJaima zegUnica (18-51) Blyth ; J. A. S. Beng. XX. p. 181. 
Megalmia zeylanica (1867) Blyth ; Ibis, p- 297. 
Native Names. 
Kotoorooal, Ceylon (Layard). 
Kotoor, Male (Layard.) 
M. minor; sexibus similibus ; \-iridis ; guttui-e brunueo ; pectore brunneo, pallida striate; capita 
nudiaque Itete brunneis. 
Hah. in insula "Ceylon" dicta. 
Sexes alike. Body green ; the head and neck dark earthy brown ; the feathers of the 
neck longitudinally streaked towards the tip with pale yellowish ; the upper back and Aving- 
coverts dark green with an ochreous tinge, the former narrowly centred and the latter finely 
tipped with yellowish white ; the quills brown, the edge of the inner web and exterior edge 
of the primaries cream colour ; the rest of the upper plumage rich green. Entire throat 
and breast dark brown, shading into a light blue green on the abdomen ; the feathers of the 
Additional references.— i^MCCo zeilanicus : Cuvier, Eegn. An. p. 457 (1829) ; Latham, Ind. Orn. III. p. 229 
(1790) ; Blytli, J. A. S. Beng. XV. pp. 13—282 (1846) ; Hartlaub, Eev. Zool. p. 337 (1841). Megalaima can,- 
c^ps : Blyth, Cat. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 66, No. 318 in pt. (1849) ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XX. p. 181 in pt. (1851 . 
Megalaivia zeylanica: Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Mus. E. I. C. II. p. 6o8 (1856); Gofiin, Cat. Mus. Pays Bas 
Buccones, p. 34 (1863); Layard, Ann. Nat. Hist. XIIL p. 446 (,1853) ; Jerdon, Birds of India, L p. 311 
(1862); G. E. Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. Capitonidse, p. 13 (1868). Megalcema zeylanica: Blj-th, Ibis, p. 311 (1867). 
