YELLOW-CHEEKED BARBET. 

 (Bucco zeylanicus.J 



Bu. viridis ; capite colloque -pallide Juscis ; genis Jlams nudius* 



culis : tectricibus alarum albo maculatis. 

 Green Barbet, with the head and neck pale fuscous : cheeks 



yellow and naked : wing-coverts with white spots. 

 Bucco zeylanicus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 408. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1. 205. 15. 

 Yellow-cheeked Barbet. Brown, III. t. 15. Lath. Syn. 2. 50(5. 



15. Lath. Sup. 95. 



NEAR six inches in length : beak red : head and 

 neck pale brown, clouded : eyes situated in a 

 naked yellow spot: back pale green: wing-coverts 

 the same, each feather spotted with white in the 

 middle : primary feathers green : interior feathers 

 dusky : belly pea-green : tail green : legs pale 

 yellow. 



This species inhabits Ceylon, Batavia, and like- 

 wise India : is called by the Cingalese, Kottorea. 

 It perches on high trees, cooing like a turtle, but 

 much louder ; and from this noise the natives 

 have given it the above name. 



