MEGALiEMA F R A N K L I N I I.
( T H E S I L V E R E D - E A R B D B A R B E T .)
Bucco franklinii (1842) Blyth; Journ. As. Soe. XI. p. 167.
„ igniceps . (1844) Hodgs. in J. E. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 8;
MegaMma franMinii . . . . . . . (1846) G. E. Gray; Gen. of B. II. p. 430.
Cyanops franklinii (1856) Horsf. & Moore; Cat. of B. I I . p. 643.
Ban bdsi . . . . Nepal (Hodgson).
Baijh bdsi Nepal (Hodgson).
M. sexibus similibus : viridis: gutture aurantiaco : fronte coccineS.
Hal. in subregione Himalayana orientali.
Sexes alike; body green; lores and forehead scarlet; top of the head and a spot at the
base of the lower mandible golden-orange; above the eye and sides of the head and neck
black; cheeks, ear-coverts, and throat silvery grey; upper plumage green, the feathers of
the back broadly edged with light green; the upper wing-coverts conspicuously washed
with blue, particularly on the shoulder; quills brown, inner webs pale yellowish at base;
exterior edge of the primaries greenish blue, that of the secondaries darker green, the
innermost being entirely green; chin golden-yellow; under surface light grass-green; tail
underneath greenish blue; bill dusky above, plumbeous below: irides brown; feet parrotgreen.
Length 9"-0, wing 3"-75, tail 2"-55.
Hal. North-eastern India. Nepal and Behar (Hodgson); Darjeling (Beavari); Sikkim
(Bulger); Tenasserim (Tickell).
The Silvered-eared Barbet is confined to the North-eastern Himalayan district, but
Additional references.—Bucco franklinii: Blyth (1846), Journ. As. Soe. p. 13. Megalaima franMinii: Gray
(1846), Cat. Birds of Nepal (Hodgson), p. 114; Goffln (1863), Mus. Pays-Bas, Bucc. p. 2 0 ; G. E. Gray (1868), Cat.
Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 8. Cyanops franklinii, Jerdon (1862), Birds of India, no. 196 ; Beavan (1864), Ibis, p. 412;
Bulger (1869), Ibis, p. 157.