INHABITING THE PHILIPPINE AECHIPELAGO. 157 



? Barbu du Senegal, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. 746. f. 2. 



? Bucco parvus, Gm. S. N. ed. xiii., i. p. 407, no. 9 (1788), ex Buff. 



?Bucco nanus, Bodd. Tabl. p. 47, ex PI. Enl. 746. f. 3 (1783). 



JIab. Luzon (Meyer) ; Zamboanga (v. Martens). 



The Messrs. Marshall (op. dt.), after a comparison made between Indian and Philip- 

 pine examples, arrived at the conclusion that individuals from all parts of India could 

 not be specificaUy 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 (torn. cit. p. 10) as that of a female, is evidently 

 that of a young bird. The sexes do not differ. 



1 have referred le petit Barhu 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 (torn. cit. pi. 35) 

 clearly belongs to X. hceinacephala. 



51. Xanthol^ma eosea. 



Le Barbu rosegorge, Le Vaillant, Hist. Nat. Ois. Parad. ii. p. 75, pi. 33, " Java." 



Bucco roseus, Dumont, Diet. Se. Nat. (1st ed.) iv. p. 52 (1806), ex Le Vaillant. 



Capita rosaceicollis, Vieillot, N. Diet. iv. p. 500 (1816), ex Le Vaillant; Vigors, Mem. Sir S. 



Raffles, p. 667, "Java." 

 Bucco roseus, Cuv. R. A. 1817, i. p. 428, ex Le Vaillant; Walden & Layard, Ibis, 1872, p. 100, 



"Negros." 

 Bucco philippensis , apud Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 181, "Java," nee Gm. 

 Xantholama rosea (Dum.), Marsh. Monogr. Capitonidce' , pi. 43 (1871). 



Hab Negros (L. C. Layard.) 



' Temminck (PI. Col. Tabl. Method, p. 56) makes it the same as X. hamaeephdh, and says that it is the 

 " jeune de I'annee." But this is a mere assumption ; for though the type specimen, which was preserved in 

 Mauduit's cabinet, was figured in the Planches Enluminees, it was lost or destroyed before Buffon wrote its 

 description. 



2 Biu^M barhicuhts, Cuv. I.e., ex le Vaillant, torn. cit. p. 131, pi. 56, has been referred by Bonaparte (Consp. 

 i. p. 143), by the Messrs. Marshall (l. c), and by Mr. G. E. 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 Vaillanl's 



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