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INHABITING THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO. 1 
? Barbu du Sénégal, D’ Aubent. Pl. Enl. 746. f. 2. 
? Bucco parvus, Gn. S. N. ed. xiii., i. p. 407, no. 9 (1788), ex Buff. 
? Bucco nanus, Bodd. Tabl. p. 47, ex Pl. Enl. 746, f. 2 (1783). 
Hab. Luzon (Meyer); Zamboanga (v. Martens). 
The Messrs. Marshall (op. cit.), after a comparison made between Indian and Philip- 
pine examples, arrived at the conclusion that individuals from all parts of India could 
not be specifically separated from the Philippine species. Numerous individuals from 
Luzon, in Dr. Meyer’s collection, enable me on the whole to adopt this opinion. Taken 
collectively, the Luzon birds, while agreeing in general dimensions with those from 
various parts of continental India, have a longer and more massive bill; the red 
occipital feathers extend further back, terminating in a line with the ends of the 
yellow supercilium ; the green of the upper plumage is some shades darker; and the 
longitudinal centres of the pectoral and abdominal feathers are more boldly marked, 
and therefore more prominent. To this extent only has the Philippine race become 
differentiated through time and isolation. 
The example described by Brisson (tom. cit. p, 10) as that of a female, is evidently 
that of a young bird. The sexes do not differ. 
I have referred le petit Barbu of Buffon, and its synonyms, to this species, but with 
considerable doubt. He described from an apparently immature bird in a plumage I 
have never seen assumed by the youngest Philippine Barbet; moreover his type was 
said to be from Senegal’. 
Notwithstanding Le Vaillant’s protestations, the bird figured by him (tom. cit. pl. 35) 
clearly belongs to X. hwmacephala. 
51. XANTHOLAMA ROSEA. 
Le Barbu rosegorge, Le Vaillant, Hist. Nat. Ois. Parad. ii. p. 75, pl. 33, “ Java.” 
Bucco roseus, Dumont, Dict. Sc. Nat. (1st ed.) iv. p. 52 (1806), ex Le Vaillant. 
Capito rosaceicollis, Vieillot, N. Dict. iv. p. 500 (1816), ex Le Vaillant; Vigors, Mem. Sir S. 
Raffles, p. 667, “ Java.” 
Bucco roseus, Cuv. R. A. 1817, 1. p. 428, ex Le Vaillant; Walden & Layard, Ibis, 1872, p. 100, 
“ Negros.” 
Bucco philippensis, apud Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soe. xiii. p. 181, “ Java,’ nee Gm. 
Xantholema rosea (Dum.), Marsh. Monogr. Capitonide’, pl. 43 (1871). 
Hab Negros (L. C. Layard.) 
* Temminck (Pl. Col. Tabl. Method. p. 56) makes it the same as X. hemacephala, and says that it is the 
“jeune de année.” But this is a mere assumption; for though the type specimen, which was preserved in 
Mauduit’s cabinet, was figured in the Planches Enluminées, it was lost or destroyed before Buffon wrote its 
description. 
* Bucco barbiculus, Cuy. l.c., ex Le Vaillant, tom. cit. p. 131, pl. 56, has been referred by Bonaparte (Consp. 
i. p. 143), by the Messrs. Marshall (7. c.), and by Mr. G. R. Gray (Hand-list, no. 8445) to this species. -It is, 
however, palpably founded on Bucco rubricapillus, Gm., ex Ceylon. Indeed, under this last species Le Vaillant's 
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