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HE6AL AE M A <F L A V I F R 0 N S 
(THE YELLOW FRONTED BARBET) 
ADULT MALE AND FEMALE 
to 1; outer anterior toe and claw .95 to 1.05; outer posterior toe .89; 
bill to gape 1.15 to 1.3; height at front of nostril .32 to .4. Females 
average slightly smaller than males, and the bills of both sexes vary in 
size. 
DISTRIBUTION 
This Barbet has long been know as a peculiar Ceylon bird. Le VailIant 
described It in his great work among the Barbats, from a specimen in the 
Paris Museum, and Cuvier afterwards gave it its Latin name of Flavifrons. 
Its head quarters in Ceylon are the hills of the Kandyan Province and 
those of the Southern group lying in the Kolouna, Morowak, and Kukkul Korale 
downwards from all of which it spreads into the coffee districts. I have 
met with it as high as the Kandapolla woods, 6400 feet, but not at New era 
Ellla or on the Horton Plains, although it is found just beneath the latter, 
at the foot of the “World’s End* precipice. In the coffee district or 
Rakwane and the Morowak Korale.lt is numerous, but it is far more abundant 
in the Slngha Rajah forests of the Kukkul Korale. 
As regards its dispersion in the low country, commencing in the South, 
we find it in the Opate, Oo dag am® a, and <b ther fine timber forests on the 
banks of the Glndurah, and in the dry season in the forest of Kottowe near 
Gal le. In the forest region of the South-east I never met with it. In 
the Western Province it Is common in some localities in Saffragam, and is 
numerous in parts of the Pasdun Korale, whither it finds its way down from 
Kukkul Korale. It inhabits the hills stretching from Ambepusse to Avisa- 
wella, and thence spreads down the river to Kaduwella, and Northwards to 
Matara and Heneratgodde; in the South-west of the Raggam Korale it is not 
uncommon, and is numerous about Kaesbawa and other places In the How again Ko¬ 
rale. It extends from the Ambokka range Into the Seven Korales, in which 
I have found it on the Western slopes of the Doolookanda hill, but further 
out than this I was unable to trace it. 
I do not think It ranges much to the North of Dambulla, or I should most 
likely have met with it on the slopes of the isolated mountain of Kittagalla 
In the Eastern Province its distribution is equally local, for it is met 
