324 ON THE BIRDS INHABITING [1875. 



more boldly marked, and therefore more prominent. To this extent only has the Thilippine 

 race become differentiated through time and isolation. 



The example described by Brisson {torn. at. p. 10) as that of a female is evidently that of 

 a young bird. The sexes do not differ. 



I have referred le petit Barbu of Buffon, and its synonyms, to this species, but with 

 considerable doubt. He described from an apparently immature bird in a plumage I have 

 never seen assumed by the youngest Philippine Barbet ; moreover his type was said to be from 

 Senegal f. 



Notwithstanding Le VaiUant's protestations, the bird figured by him {torn. cit. pi. 35) clearly 

 belongs to X. hcemacephala. 



51. XanthoLuEJU rosea. 



Le Barhu rosegorge, Le Vaillant, Hist. Nat. Ois. Parad. ii. p. 75, pi. 33, "Java." 



Bucco roseus, Dumont, Diet. Sc. Nat. (1st. ed.) iv. p. 52 (1806), ex Le Vaillant. 



Ca;pito rosaceicolUs, Vieillot, N. Diet. iv. p. 500 (1816), ex Le Vaillant; Vigors, Mem. Sir 

 S. Eaffies, p. 667, "Java." 



Bucco roseus, Cuv. R. A. 1817, i. p. 428, ex Le Vaillant; Walden & Layard, Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 100, " Negros." [^«<m, p. 118.] 



Bucco j)hiU])pends, apud Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 181, "Java," nee Gm. 



XanthoJcema rosea (Dum.), Marsh. Monogr. Ca/pitonidce $, pi. 43 (1871). 



Hai. Negros [L. C. Layard). 



Tr. Z. _S. ix. Java and the Philippine island of Negros are the only localities known to be inhabited by 



p. 158. 



this Barbet. 



Le Barhu de Tisle du Lttcon, Sonnerat, Voy. Nouv. Guin. p. 68, pi. 34. 

 Trogon luzonensis, Scopoli, Del. Fl. Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 89, no. 44 (1786), ex Sonn. 

 Bucco niger, Gm. S. N. i. p. 407, no. 8 (1788), ex Sonn. 



Is an African species, unknown in the Philippines, Pogonorhynchus leucomelas (Bodd.), 

 Marshall, Monogr. Captitonidce, p. 12. 



CYPSELID^. 



Maceoptektx, Swainson. 



52. Mackoptektx § comatus (Temm.). 



Cypsehis comatus, Temm. PL Col. pi. 268, "Sumatra," 6 (1824). 



t Temminck (PI. Col. Tabl. Method, p. 56) makes it the same as X. lumnacephala, and says that it is the " jeuiie de 

 rannee." But this is a mere assumption ; for though the tj-pe specimen, which was preserved in llauduit's cabinet, was 

 figured in the ' Planches Enluminees,' it was lost or destro3-ed before Buffon wrote its description. 



X Bucco barbicnlvs, Cuv. I. c, ex Lo Vaillant, torn. cit. p. 131, pi. 56, has been referred by Bonaparte (Consp. i. 

 p. 143), by the Messrs. Marshall {I. c), and by Mr. G. E. Gray (Hand-list, no. 8445) to this species. It is, however, 

 palpably founded on Bucco nibricapillus, Gm., ex Ceylon. Indeed, under this last species Le VaiUant's fifty-sixth plate is 

 referred to by the Messrs. Marshall, although Cuvier's title based thereon is made a synonym of X. rosea. At least it is 

 to be presumed that this is what is meant by Lc barbu varbichon (instead of barhicJion), and by p. 56 instead of pi. 56 

 (conf. Marshall, Monogr. Cajntonidce, pi. 44). 



§ I cannot find that the title Dendrochelidon, Boie, was published prior to 1832. 



