MEG-AL2EM A VIRIDIS. 
(THE GREEN BAEBET.) 
Bucco viridis 
Barbu de make . 
Capito viridis . 
Le cdbezon vert . 
Bucco caniceps . 
Megalaima viridis 
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(1783) Boddaert; Tabl. des PI. Enl. p. 53. 
(1783) Buffon; PI. Enl. YII. p. 435. 
(1816) VieiUot ; N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. IY. p. 59. 
(1816) Yieillot; N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. IY. p. 59. 
(1832) Sykes; P. Z. S. p. 97, No. 123. 
(1846) G. E. Gray ; Gen. of Birds II. p. 429. 
(1847) Jerdon; HI. Ind. Orn. t. 26. 
M. viridis : minor : gutture albescente, Baud striato : capite, nucMque, lsete brunneis. 
Bab. in India meridionali. 
Sexes alike; body green; head and neck dark umber brown; the feathers of the upper 
back finely centred with yellowish white ; upper plumage rich dark green ; quills brown ; 
inner webs pale yellowish at the base ; cheeks and a superciliary eye- streak white ; chin, 
throat, and breast yellowish white, the breast-feathers being laterally edged with brown; 
under surface pale grass green ; tail underneath greenish blue ; bill pale horny brown ; irides 
red brown; orbital skin brown; legs plumbeous brown (Jerdon)] length 8-", wing 4-", tail 
2'75" inches (Jerdon). 
Bab. Southern India ; the Malabar Coast up to 14° N.L. (Jerdon) ; the Deccan 
(Sykes). 
Additional references.— Bucco viridis : Grnelin (1788), S. N. Vol. I. p. 408 ; Latham (1790), Ind. Orn. I. 
p. 205; Jerdon (1840), Madr. Journ. Vol. XI. p. 217; Hartlaub (1841), Eev. Zool. p.337; Cuvier (1829), Begn. 
An p. 457; Buff, PI. Enl. No. 870; Latham (1790), Hist, of Birds, p. 228 ; Temminck (1832), PI. Col. texte ; 
Jerdon (1844), Madr. Journ. XIII. pt. 2, p. 140 ; Blyth (1846), J. A. S. Beng. XV. p. 13. Megalaima viridis: 
Blyth (1849), Cat. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 67, No. 319 ; Horsf. & Moore (1856), Cat. Mus. E. I. C. II. p. 639, No. 
926; Jerdon (1862), Birds of India, No. 194 ; Bonaparte (1850), Consp. Av. p. 144 ; G. E. Gray (1868), Cat. 
Brit. Mus. CapitonidED, p. 13. 
