Brown Headed Barbets haven made two appearances already on these pages. Now it’s time for a Yellow Fronted Barbet enter the stage. The Brown head’s scientific name is Megalaima zeylanica , Zeylanica is a word that sounds like Zeylan the old portugese name for Ceylon which later because Sri Lanka. However the brown head is spread over much of Asia. It is the Yellow Fronted Barbet that is endemic.

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