MEGALfE MA FLAVIFRONS. 
(GOLDEN-FRONTED BARBET). 
Le Barbul a front d’or 
Bucco flavifrons 
Cyanops flavifrons 
Bueeo aurifrons 
(1806) Levaill: Barbus, pi. 55. 
(1817) Cuv. Regne Anim. I, p. 428. 
(1857) Blyth, Ibis, p. 297. 
(1831) Temm. PI. Col. texte. 
M. viridis: froiite et vitta ad basin mandibulffl inferioris, aureis: gutture, regione parotica et superciliis 
lsete 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 
yn 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 the 
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, iotal 
length 9 inches, of wing 4 - 0, tail 2'75, tarsus l'O. 
Hab. Ceylon. 
Megalcema flavifrons 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 flavif rons, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. I, p. 143 (1850); Blytli, Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. 1852, p. 179 ; Tenn. Ceylon, pp. 178—81 ; Golf, in Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Buccones, p. 23 
(1862) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 227, et Ibis, 1867, p. 297 ; Gray, Cat. Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 8 (1868). 
