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Dr. Latham has described a variety of this 

 species, which he suspects may be the female : it 

 is in length ten inches : beak reddish-brown and 

 stout, with six or eight bristles at the base : 

 the nostrils are also hairy : round the eye bare, 

 and of a reddish colour : general colour of the 

 plumage dull green : the breast and belly pale 

 whitish-green : quills black : tail short, green : 

 legs of a pale yellow. Inhabits China and India, 

 in which latter place it goes by the name of 

 Honestface. 



Wings armed with a spur at the shoulder. 



WAX-BILLED BARBET. 

 (Bucco calcaratus.) 



Bu. niger, subtus cinereus ; tectricibus alarum albo marginatis, 



flexura spinula alba. 

 Black Barbet, beneath cinereous, wing-coverts margined with 



white, at the base of the wings a white spur. 

 Bucco cinereus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 40Q. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



206. 18. 



Corvus australis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 377. 

 Corvus affinis. Shatv. Zool. J, 381. 

 Cuculus tranquillus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 417. 

 Coucou noir de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois.6. 416. Buff. 



Pl.Enl. 512. 



Cayenne Black Cuckow. Lath. Syn. 2. 403. 40. 

 Red-billed Crow. Lath. Syn. 1. 4O3. 40. Shaw. Zool. 7. 381. 

 Wax-billed Barbet. Lath. Syn. 2. 507- 17. Lath. Sup. 96. 



LENGTH eleven inches and a half: beak one 

 inch and a half in length, compressed on the sides, 



