Genus XANTIIOL.EMA. 
Bill shorter and wider at the base than in Megalama ; culmen more arched ; loral bristles 
very long. Wings with the 2nd quill the longest, the 3rd only slightly less than it. Legs and 
feet as in the last genus. 
X ANTHOLiEMA RUBRICAPILLA. 
(THE LITTLE CEYLON BARBET*) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
JBucco rubricapillus, Grn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 408 (1788); Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, pp. 386, 
464. 
Bucco lathami, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 408 (1788); Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 205 (1790); Cuv. 
Reg. An. i. p. 45 (1829). 
Capita rubricapillus, Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. p. 449 (1816). 
Capito lathami, Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. p. 449 (1816). 
Megalaima rubricapilla, G. R. Gray, Gen. Birds, p. 429 (1846) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. 
p. 127 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiii. p. 448 ; Golf. Mns. Pays- 
Bas, Buccones, p. 26 (1863). 
Megalaima lathami, G. R. Gray, Gen. Birds, p. 429. 
Megalaima rubricapilla, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 68 (1849); Bonap. Consp. Av. 
p. 144 (1850). 
Xantholcema rubricapilla, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 646 ; Blyth, Ibis, 
1867, p. 297 ; Marshall, Monogr. Capit. pi. 44 (1871); Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, 
p. 430 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 15, et 1875, p. 284. 
Le Barbet a couronne rouge, or the Bed-crowned Barbet, Brown, 111. xiv. (1776); Le Cabezon 
a couronne rouge, Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. p. 497 ; The Bose-crowned Barbet, 
Marshall ; The Bed-fronted Barbet, The “ Copper-smith ,” also Bell-bird, Europeans in 
Ceylon. 
Mal-kotoruwa , lit. “ Flower-Barbet ” (from its gay colours). 
c J ad. prasinus, plumis quibusdam eyaueo lavatis : remigibus saturate bruimeis, extiis dorsi colore lavatis : cauda 
viridi : narium plumis flavis : linea angusta frontali nigra : vertice et fronte scarlatinis postea nigro marginatis : 
striga supra- et infraoculari flava : facie lateral! genisque viridi-cyaneis : gutture toto hete flavo, macula jugulari 
scarlatina : corpore reliquo subtus viridi flavo lavata : subalaribus flavidis : rostro nigro, ad basin schistaceo : 
pedibus saturate corallinis : iride rufescenti-brunnea. 
Adult male and female. Length 6-0 to 6 -2 inches ; wing 3-0 to 3-15 ; tail 1-4 ; tarsus 0-75 ; outer anterior toe and 
claw 075 ; posterior toe 0'65 ; bill to gape 085 to 09. 
* This species has usually been styled the 11 Red-fronted Barbet but the next, though not so called, has also a 
red forehead ; and therefore, taken in reference to Ceylon ornithology, the present name will, I think, be better. 
