124 On a new Species of Barbet from Western India. 

 PELECANID^E. 



235. Graculus sulcirostris (Brandt) . (38.) 



Carbo sulcirostris, Brandt, Bullet. Acad. St. Petersb. iii. 56 

 (habitat unknown) . 



Phalacrocorax sulcirostris, Brandt ; Gray, List Birds Brit. 

 Mus. iii. (1844) 185 (habitat unknown) ; Gould, Birds Austral, 

 vii. t. 67. 



Hatieus sulcirostris, Bonap. Consp. ii. 178. 



Halieus (Microcarbo) stictocephalus , Bonap. Consp. ii. 178. 



Graculus sulcirostris, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Pelecani, 

 1863, 13 (Australia?, Borneo, Amboina, Halmaheira). 



Phalacrocorax stictocephalus (Bonap.), Gould, Hand-b. B. 

 Austral, ii. 495. 



Carbo squamatus, Mus. Vindob. MS. 



New Holland. 



236. Graculus melanoleucus (Vieill.). (37, 6.) 



A specimen from New Holland in our Museum is probably 

 that mentioned in the inventory. 



XIV. — On a new Species of Barbet from Western India. 

 By Capt. J. Hayes Lloyd. 



By the kindness of Mr. R. B. Sharpe I have had an oppor- 

 tunity of inspecting the collection of Megalsemidse in the 

 British Museum ; and I find, as I have long suspected, that 

 the small green Barbet of Western India is distinct from the 

 Megalaema viridis of Malabar and Southern India, being dis- 

 tinguishable by its greater size and more pronounced mark- 

 ings. In the Messrs. Marshall's monograph of the Capito- 

 nidse, reference is made under M. viridis (the colour of the 

 bill of which, by the way, is given correctly in the letterpress, 

 but wrongly in the plate) to a bird obtained by Col. Sykes 

 in the Deccan, the dimensions of which were too large for M. 

 viridis and too small for iii". caniceps. To any one possessing 

 local knowledge the locality quoted must sound vague ; but I 

 have little doubt that Col. Sykes's bird was the species of 



