eaclx feather tipped finely with white ; the quills are dark brown, but their inner webs at 
the base, as well as the exterior web of both primaries and secondaries and the tips of the 
latter, are edged with yellowish white; the chin and throat are earthy brown, paler on the 
breast and shading into light blue green on the under surface, the brown feathers of the 
breast being faintly centred paler ; the under surface of the tail greenish blue ; rictal bristles 
strongly developed ; the flesh colours vary in tint according to the time of year ; the bill 
is pale brown, with a pinkish or orange tinge ; the bare skin round the eyes and on the 
sides of the face is orange, brighter and more yellowish in the spring; the eyelid is lighter 
yellow ; the legs are yellow with more or less brownish tinge in them, and the claws are 
pale greenish horny; irides clear brown. 
The female is rather smaller than the male, but the difference is slight. The dimen- 
sions of a male average about: length 10"'5, expanse 16"., wing 4" - 75, tail 3"', tarsus 1 "' 
inch; and of a female : length 10" - 25, expanse 15"‘5, wing 4" , 6, tail 3" 1 inches. 
Habitat. Throughout Northern India in wooded localities, but not extending into the 
Himalayas, or, as far as we know, anywhere north of the Sutlej ; Sewalik mountains and 
Rohilkund ( Marshall ) ; N. W. Provinces (Ewer) ; Manbhoom ( Beavan ) ; Central India, 
Nagpoor, and Chanda ( Jerdon ); Bengal and the Yindhyan hills (Franklin)’, Eastern 
Ghats, Malabar and Goomsoor (Jerdon). The last localities we have taken from Dr. 
Jerdon’s book on the birds of India; but we have never seen any specimens of true M. 
caniceps from Southern India, and we rather suspect they will turn out to be Lord Walden’s 
new gpecies, M. inornata. 
This dingily-coloured Barbet belongs to a sub-group of the Megalcemince , the different 
species of which are closely allied and not easily distinguishable from each other by descrip- 
tion only ; but as more is known of the habits of this species than of those of the others, 
we have pointed out the distinctions at greater length under the descriptions of M. zeylonica 
and M. inornata. 
The place where we have had the best opportunities of observing the habits of the 
Hoary Jungle Barbet was the Kaloowala Rao, a valley on the Southern slope of the Sewalik 
mountains, situated about half way between the Ganges and the Jumna and the source of 
a mountain torrent from which it derives its name. The sides of the mountains here, and 
the plains for about two or three miles from their base, are covered with forest interspersed 
with patches of rank jungle grass, the forest consisting chiefly of thorn trees and bushes 
about twenty feet high, with here and there a clump of fine old mango trees, or a solitary 
