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grooved on each side with two shallow longitudinal furrows ; cir- 

 cumference of the eyes nakedj nostrils round. These birds approach 

 the Toucans in their beakj but their simple tongue, which is not 

 ciliated, separates them. One species only is known, which is as 

 large as a Crow, whitish, with a grey mantle; found in New Hol- 

 land.(l) 



Bucco, Lin.(2) 



The Barbets have a thick conical beak, inflated on the sides of its 

 base, and furnished with five bundles of stiff hairs directed forwards; 

 one behind the nostril, one on each side of the base of the lower 

 jaw, and the fifth under its symphysis. The wings are short, and 

 their proportions are heavy, as is also their flight. They live on 

 insects, and will attack small birds; they also eat fruit. They build 

 in the hollows of trees. We may divide them into three subgenera: 



The Barbicans, Buff. Pogonias, Illig.(3) 



Have one or two strong teeth on each side of the upper mandible, 

 the ridge of which is blunt and arcuated; the hairs on the beak are 

 remarkably rigid. They are more frugivorous than the other spe- 

 cies, and are found in India and Africa.(4) 



Bucco, Cuv.(5) 



In the true Barbets, the beak is simply conical and slightly com- 

 pressed, with a blunt ridge, somewhat raised in the middle. They 

 are found in both continents, and several of them are ornamented 

 with bright colours. During the nuptial season they fly in pairs, 

 and the remainder of the year in small flocks. (6) 



(1) Scythrops novae-hollandias, I.ath. or Scyth. australasise, Sh., Philip. 165 and 

 John White, p. 142; two bad figures. Those are better in Col. 290, and Vieill. 

 Gal. 39. 



(2) Bucco, the name given to this genus by Brisson, on account of the inflation 

 of the mandible at its base, from bucca (cheek). 



(3) Uarbicans, because they are connected with both the Barbets and the 

 Toucans: Pogonias, from Trayeev, beard; but the latter has long been apphed to a 

 genus of fislies by Lacepede. 



(4) Bucco dubius, Gm. {Pogonias sulcirostris]. Leach, Zool. Misc.. II, 76, Enl. 

 602; Vaill., Ois. de par. etc. II, pi. x\x;Pog. erythromelas, Vieill. Gal. 32; P. 

 levirostris, Leacli, 77\ Vaill., pi. K; Le barb, a ventre rose, Vaill. loc. cit. pi. A, is its 

 young; P. personatus, T. Col. 201; P. niger, Enl. 688, 1; Vaill., 29, 30, 31; 

 P. rublcon, Vaill. pi. D. 



(5) Vieillot has changed this name into Capito. 



(6) Bucco grandis, Enl. 87l;viridis, Enl. 870;Jlav?frons, Nob. Vaill., I, cit. 

 S5;cyanops, Nob., Id., lb., 21, or Capito cyanocollis, Vieill. Gal. 35;Lathami, 



