300 BIRDS, 



Malcoha*, P'aill. 



The Malcolias have a very stout bill, round at base, and arcuated near 

 the point, with a large naked space about the eyes. The nostrils of 

 some f are round, and placed near the base of the bill, in others they are 

 narrow and situated near its edge J. They are natives of Ceylon, and 

 as it is said, live chiefly on fruit. 



It is probably also necessary to distinguish those species in which the 

 bill is not so stout, and which have scarcely any of the naked space about 

 the eyes§. 



ScYTHRoPS, Lath. 



The bill still longer and stouter than that of the Malcoha, and grooved 

 on each side with two shallow longitudinal furrows ; circumference of the 

 eyes naked; nostrils round. These birds approach the Toucans in their 

 beak; 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 Holland |]. 



Bucco**, Lin. 



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

 and furnished with five bundles of stiff hairs directed forwards ; one be- 

 hind the nostril, one on each side of the base of the lower jaw, and the 

 fifth under its sjTnphysis. 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 ea't fruit. They build in the hollows of trees. We may 

 divide them into three subgenera: 



The Barbicans ff, Buff. — Pogonias, IlUg. 

 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 remark- 

 ably rigid. They are more frugivorous than the other species, and are 

 found in India and Africa J J. 



Bucco §§, Cuv. 

 In the true Barbets, the bill is simply conical and slightly compressed, 



is the Corvus erythrorhynchos. These two remarks are from Le Vaillant, who has 

 done more to chicidate the historj^ of the Cuckoos than any other naturalist 



* Vieill, calls the h'alcoha, PHfENicopH/EUS, Gal. 37. 



f The Malcoha Rouverdin, Vaill. Afr, 223. 



X The Malcoha, Id, 224; or Cue. pynocephalus, Forster, 3. Vieill. Gal. 37. 



§ The Malcoha h bee peint (Phceiiicophaus calyorhynchns, T.), Col. 349;—PhoenL 

 javanictis. Horsf. Jav. 



II Scythrops novce-hollandia, Lath., or Seyth. australasirj;, Sli., Pliilip, 165, and John 

 Wliite, p, 142; two bad figures. Those are better in Col. 290, and Vieill. Gal. 39. 



** Bucco, the name given to this genus by Brisson, on account of the inflation 

 oi the mandible at its base, from htcca (check). 



ft Barbicans, because they are connected with both the Barbets and the Tou- 

 cans: PoGOtJiAs, from pogon (beard); but the latter has long been applied to a genus 

 of fishes by Lacepddt. 



XX Bucco dtibius, Gm, (Pneovias sulcirostris), Leach, Zool. Misc. II, 76, Enl. 602;- 

 Vaill., Ois. de par. etc. II, pi. xix;— Po^. erythromelas, Vieill. Gal. 32;— P. Ivvirostris, 

 Leach, 77; Vaill,, pi. K; Le barb. & venire rose, Vaill. loc. cit. pi. A, is its young; — 

 P. persoit'ittm, T. Coh 201;— P. niecr, Enl. 688, 1; Vaill. 29, 30, 31j— P. rubkon, 

 Vaill. pi. D, 



f§ VieJlot has changed this name into Capito. 



