. Birds. Birds. CXANOPS. 93 mandible; rest of lower parts yellowish green; tail-feathers washed beneath with pale blue; quills blackish brown, their inner border and the wing-lining yellowish white; a narrow whitish line on the outer web of several primaries near the tip. In the^^^S the colours of the head are indistinct. Males from the ^^^p hills are said to have the mantle-feathers and upper tail-coverts tipped with maroon and the under tail-coverts splashed with vermilion. Bill greenish yellow horny, black above; margins of eyelids orange; irides hazel-brown, brown, and reddish brown; feet
. Birds. Birds. CXANOPS. 93 mandible; rest of lower parts yellowish green; tail-feathers washed beneath with pale blue; quills blackish brown, their inner border and the wing-lining yellowish white; a narrow whitish line on the outer web of several primaries near the tip. In the^^^S the colours of the head are indistinct. Males from the ^^^p hills are said to have the mantle-feathers and upper tail-coverts tipped with maroon and the under tail-coverts splashed with vermilion. Bill greenish yellow horny, black above; margins of eyelids orange; irides hazel-brown, brown, and reddish brown; feet dingy green, claws horny black (Scfally). Length about 9-2; tail 2-7; wing 4'1; tarsus 1-05; bill from gape Fig. 26.—Head of C. asiaiica. Distribution. Common throughout the Lower Hilnalayas and sub-Himalayan forests up to 3500 or 4000 feet as far west as Chamba, also in Lower Bengal, Assam, and the neighbouring countries as far as the KJiakyen hiUs in Yunnan to the eastward, and south to Burma. This Barbet has been found by Gates in the Arrakan and Pegu hiQs, by Wardlaw-Eamsay in Karennee, and by Davison in Northern Tenasserim about Pahpoon. Hahits, Sfc. A noisy, active bird, living on fruit, and having a peculiar frequently-repeated trisyllabic call. It breeds in the Himalayas in April and May, and generally lays three eggs in a hole, which it excavates in the trunk or a branch of a tree. As a rule there is no lining, but in a very few instances a pad of vege- table fibres or som^ other substance has been found. The eggs are white, with little or no gloss, and mea'sure about 1"09 by "83. 1013. Cyanops davisoni. Davison's Blue-throated Barbet. Megalaema davisoni, Sums, S. F. v, p. 108 (1877); id. Cat. no. 195 bis; Sume Sr Dam. S. F. vi, p. 151; Bingham, S. F. ix, p. 165; Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. 562. Cyanops davisoni, Oates, B. B. ii, p. 134; id. in Sume's N. ^ E, 2nd ed. ii, p. 321; Shelley, Cat. B. M. xix, p. 65, pi. iv. fig. Please note
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