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grooved on each side with two shallow longitudinal furrows ; cir- 
cumference 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 Hol- 
land.(1) 
Bucco, Lin.(2) 
The Barbets have a thick conical beak, inflated on the sides of its 
base, and furnished with five bundles of stiff hairs directed forwards; 
one behind 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 Barzicans, Buff.—Pocontas, Illig.(3) 
» 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 
remarkably rigid. They are more frugivorous than the other spe- 
cies, and are found in India and Africa.(4) 
Bucco, Cuv.(5) 
In the true Barbets, the beak is simply conical and slightly com- 
pressed, witha blunt ridge, somewhat raised in the middle. They 
are found in both continents, and several of them are ornamented 
with bright colours. During the nuptial season they fly in pairs, 
and the remainder of the year in small flocks.(6) 
Si ES RI id 1 i a a PS AE EE Se eee 
(1) Seythrops nove-hollandiz, Lath. or Scyth. australasiz, Sh., Philip. 165 and 
John White, p. 142; two bad. figures. Those are better in Col. 290, and Vieill. 
Gal. 39. 
(2) Bucco, the name given to this genus by Brisson, on account of the inflation 
of the mandible at its base, from bucca (cheek). 
(3) Barsreans, because they are connected with both the Barbets and the 
Toucans: Poconras, from x# yay, beard; but the latter has long been applied to a 
genus of fishes by Lac¢peéde. : 
(4) Bucco dubius, Gm. (Pogonias sulcirostris), Leach, Zool. Misc. II, 76, Enl. 
602; Vaill., Ois. de par. etc. II, pl. xix;—Pog. erythromelas, Vieill. Gal. 32;—P. 
levirostris, Leach, 77; Vaill., pl. K; Le barb. a 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. 
(5) Vieillot has changed this name into Carrro. ' 
(6) Bucco grandis, Enl. 871;—viridis, Enl. 870;—flavifrons, Nob. Vaill., I, cit. 
55;—cyanops, Nob., Id., Ib., 21, or Capito cyanocollis, Vieill. Gal. 35;—Lathami, 
