40 GREAT BARBET. 



row stripes of black : the six middle feathers are 

 equal in length : the three others on each side 

 gradually shorter to the outer one, which is the 

 shortest of all: legs and claws ash-coloured. 

 Found at Guiana, but rarely. 



GREAT BARBET. 

 (Bucco grandis. ) 



Bu. viridis versicolor; remigibus nigro variegatis-, capite colloque 



cyaneis ; crisso rufo. 

 Changeable green Barbet, with the quill-feathers variegated 



with black ; head and neck blue ; vent red. 

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



204. 10. 



Grand Barbu de la Chine. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 100. 

 Grand Barbet. Lath. Syn. 2. 503. IO. 



LENGTH eleven inches : the beak rather more 

 than an inch and three quarters in length, whitisl]., 

 with the tip black : the base covered with strong 

 black bristles, and about one inch thick : for the 

 most part the plumage is of a fine green, which 

 differs in various parts of the body, as the head 

 and fore parts of the neck incline to blue, ac- 

 cording to the disposition of the lights, and the 

 hind part of the neck, with part of the back, are 

 of a chesnut brown : the greater quill-feathers 

 have a mixture of black : and the under tail- 

 coverts are of a fine red : the legs are dusky 

 yellow. 



