9$ B A R B E T. 



It is alfo a native o^ India, as I met with it among the drawings 

 of Lady /»«/>^_)'. 



i6. Doubtful Barbet, Gen. Sy». ii. p. 506. N° 16. 



DOUBTFUL B. ' ^^^j^^j-^ 



Var. 



IN the Britijh Mufeum is a fine fpecimen of this bird, which dif- 

 fers fomewhat from my former defcription. The bill is wholly 

 of a pale yellowifli colour ; the under mandible fmooth, without 

 any tranfverfe channels : the crown has a mixture of crimfon fea- 

 thers, which pafs behind each eye, and afterwards extend forwards 

 to blend with the crimfon on the fore parts : the greater wing co- 

 verts are tipped with crimfon, forming an oblique bar of the fame 

 acrofs the wing: on the middle of the back is a patch of white, 

 and a thick tuft of filky white feathers, fquare at the ends : all the 

 under parts are red 5 but the chin, juft under the bill, is black, 

 and a fpot of the fame juft at the bafe of the under mandible: the 

 general colour of the bird is blueiili black : the quills brown. 



Place. The above fpecimen came from Africa, but what part thereof 



uncertain. 



17. ■ Red-billed Crow, G«;. 5y«. i. p. 403. 



WAX-BILLED Cayenne Black Cuckow, U. i. p. 543. 



Le Coucou noir de Cayenne, ^a/". Oif. vi. p. 416. — Pl.Enl.^iz, 

 Lev. Muf, 



T T is but lately that a perfedl fpecimen of this bird has come un- 

 der my infpedionj from which I am clear that the above two 

 are one and the fame with this Barbet, I have only here to add, 



that 



