300 BIRDS. 
Matcona*, Vaill. 
The Malcohas 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 } are round, and placed near the base of the bill, in others they are 
narrow and situated near its edget. ‘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§. 
Scyturops, 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 symphysis. 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 eat fruit. They build in the hollows of trees. We may 
divide them into three subgenera: 
The Barsicans}}, Buff.—Pocontas, Illig. 
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 Afficatf. 
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 elucidate the history of the Cuckoos than any other naturalist. 
* Vieill. calls the Malcoha, PuantcoPHazus, Gal, 37. 
¢ The Malcoha Rouverdin, Vaill. Afr. 223. 
t The Malcoha, 1d. 224; or Cuc. pyrrocephalus, Forster, 3. Vieill. Gal. 37. 
§ The Malevha & bec peint (Phcenicopheus calyorhynchus, T.), Col. 349;—Pheeni. 
javanicus. Horsf. Jav. 
|| Seythrops nove-hollandia, Lath., or Scyth. australasia, Sh., Philip, 165, and John 
White, 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 
of the mandible at its base, from bucea (check). 
tt Barsicans, because they are connected with both the Barbets and the Tou- 
cans: PoGontas, from pogon (beard); but the latter has long been applied to a genus 
of fishes by Lacépéde. 
tt Buceco dubius, Gm. (Pogonias sulcirostris), Leach, Zool. Misc. II, 76, Enl. 602; 
Vaill., Ois. de par. ete. II, pl. xix;—Pog. erythromelas, Vieill. Gal. 32;—P. levirostris, 
Leach, 77; Vaill., pl. K; Le barb. @ ventre rose, Vaill. loc. cit. pl. A, is its young;— 
P. personatus, T. Col. 201;—P. niger, Enl. 688, 1; Vaill. 29, 30, 31;—P. rubicon, 
Vaill. pl. D. 
§§ Viellot has changed this name into Capito. 
