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thickly foliaged trees, which we found to be the note of this Barbet. 

 Towards the end of the month, and in October, they become more 

 abundant, and we saw them continually feeding on the berries 

 which grow in the more open parts of the woods. The following 

 season we paid a second visit to this forest towards the end of 

 August, and found them plentiful, and obtained specimens of both 

 male and female birds, which are identical in plumage." 



Genus IV. BARBATULA. 



Type. 

 Barbatula, Less. Compl. Buff, ix, p. 292 (1837) ... B. erythronota. 



Edge of the upper mandible smooth and not hooked ; culmen 

 narrow between the nostrils and almost flat, not ridged, almost 

 straight from base to tip ; nostrils somewhat overhung by bristles ; 

 a few bristles on the chin ; wing rounded, and the difference 

 between the inner secondaries and longest primaries less than half 

 the length of the tarsus. 



Three out of sixteen species, all African, are found within our 

 limits. 



Key of the Species. 



A. Fore part of crown crimson .............................. B. pusilla, p. 166. 



B. Fore part of crown yellow .............................. B. extoni, p. 168. 



C. Whole of the crown^and mantle black ............... B. bilineata, p. 169. 



W- te hVAt a ' ^/W^ 

 455, Barbatula pusilla. Tinker Bird. 



Le Barbion male. Levaill. Barbus, p. 73, pi. 32 (1806). 



Bucco pusillus, Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. iv, p. 50 (1806). 



Bucco barbatula, Temm. PL Col iii, Bucco, pp. 18, 19 (1831). 



Barbatula minuta (nee Bp.} Gurney, Ibis, 1864, p. 353. 



Megalairna barbatula, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 234 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, 



p. 372 [Grahamstown] . 

 Barbatula pusilla, Marshall, Monogr. Capit. p. 117, pi. 48 (1871); 



Sliarpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 175 (1876) ; Shelley, Cat. B. M. 



xix, p. 39 (1891) ; id. B. Afr. i, p. 128 (1896) ; Woodward Bros, ami 



Sliarpe, Ibis, 1897, pp. 404, 500 [Zululand] ; Woodward Bros. 



Natal B. p. 110 (1899). 

 " Ipengempe " of Natal Zulus (Woodward). 



Description. Adult male. Forehead and front portion of the 

 crown scarlet, bordered below by a narrow black frontal band ; 

 hinder part of the crown, nape and mantle black with sulphur- 



