ZE YLANIOA. 
MEGALZEMA 
(THE BROWN - HEADED CEYLON BAR BET.) 
(1788) Gmelin ; S.N., I. p. 408. 
(1806) LeYaill. ; Barbus pi. 38. 
(1816) Yieill. ; N. Diet, d’Hist. Nat. IV. p. 409. 
(1816) Do. Do. Do 
(1840) Or. B. Gray ; Gen. of Birds II. p. 429. 
(1841) Hartlaub ; Rev. Zool. p. 337. 
. . . . (1850) Bonaparte; Consp. Av. I. p. 144. 
(1851) Blytli; J. A. S. Beng. XX. p. 181. 
(1867) Blytli; Ibis, p. 297. 
Native Names. 
Kotoorooal, Ceylon (Bayard). 
Kotoor, Male (Layard.) 
M. minor ; sexibus similibus ; viridis ; gutture brunneo ; pectore brunneo, pallide striato ; capite 
nucliaque lsete brunneis. 
Hab. in insula “Ceylon” dicta. 
Sexes alike. Body green ; the head and neck dark earthy brown ; the feathers oi the 
neck longitudinally streaked towards the tip with pale yellowish ; the upper back and wing- 
coverts dark green with an oclireous 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. — Bucco zeilanwus : Cuvier, Regn. An. p. 457 (1829) ; Latham, Ind. Orn. III. p. 229 
(1790) ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XV. pp. 13 — 282 (1846) ; Hartlaub, Rev. Zool. p. 337 (1841). Megalaima cani- 
ceps : Blyth, Cat. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 66, No. 318inpt. (1849) ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. XX. p. 181 in pt. (1851). 
Megalaima zeylanica: Ilorsf. & Moore, Cat. Mus. R. I. C. II. p. 6o8 (1856); Coffin, Cat. Mus. Pays Bas 
Buccones, p. 34 (1863); Layard, Ann. Nat. Hist. XIII. p. 446 1 1853) ; Jerdon, Birds of India, I. p. 311 
(1862); G. R. Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. Capitonidse, p. 13 (1868). Megalama zeylanica: Blyth, Ibis, p. 311 (1867). 
Bucco zeylanicm 
Le hottorea ■ 
Capita zeilanicus 
Le cahezoti hottorea . 
Megalaima caniceps . 
Bucco hottorea . 
,, viridis 
Megalaima zeylanica . 
Megalaima zeylanica . 
