MEGALiEMA HUMEI. 
(THE VARIEGATED BARBET.) 
Megalcema humei . (1870) Marshall ; Ibis, p. 536. 
Megalaima mystacophanus . . . • (1863) Goffin ; Cat. Mus. Pays-Bas, Bucc. p. 18 (partim). 
M. sexibus similibus : viridis : gutture viridi : occipite coccineo. 
Hal. in insula “ Borneo ” dicta. 
Sexes alike ; body green ; lores, a triangular occipital patch, and a small spot on each 
side of the breast scarlet; forehead greenish yellow, shading into light blue; a line 
above and below the eye, and a monstachial spot, bright blue; the sides of the occiput and 
the whole nape and neck very dark green, tipped with crescents of bright shining green ; 
upper back rich dark green; quills brown, the inner webs pale yellowish at base, the 
exterior webs edged with green, especially the secondaries, the innermost of which are 
almost entirely green ; throat pale green, indistinctly washed with blue, and the feathers 
yellow-shafted ; a pectoral band of light blue ; the under surface of the body pale green. 
The young bird is green, and the bright colours of the head and neck are gradually 
assumed. Length about 8' ,- 5, wing 3 M '9, tail 2 1 ' I . 
Hal. Borneo (mus. nostr.). 
The Variegated Barbet has been known for a long time, but has always been con- 
sidered an immature stage of M. mystacophanus (Temminck). A few months ago we 
obtained from Penang an immature bird of the latter, which has convinced ns that the 
present species is distinct, and that in no case could M. humei be a stage of M. mystacophanus. 
The chief points on which they were classed together were the green throat and mixture of 
green with the yellow and blue on the head of M. lmmei, which were considered marks of 
immaturity which would eventually give place to the scarlet throat and golden-yellow 
forehead of if. mystacophanus; but in evidently mature specimens of the former the scarlet 
