49 s 



B A R B E T, 



BEAUTIFUL 

 B. 



Le Barbu des Maynas, Brif. trtt. iv. p. 102. N" 5. pi. 7. f. 3,— PI. tnh 



330- 

 Le beau Tamatia, 2?»/". e//". vii. p. 98. 



Discretion. ^T*HIS is a very beautiful fpecies, being of a lefs clumfy make 

 „ than moft of the others, and more lively in difpofition. 

 It is of the fize of a Sparrow : length five inches and three quar- 

 ters. Bill ten lines long, and of an afh-colour, with the edges and 

 tip of a yellowifli white : top of the head, fides, and throat, red, 

 edged round with light blue: at the corners of the mouth begins 

 a ftreak of the lad, dividing the red on each fide : the upper 

 parts of the body and tail are green ; the laft cuneiform, and com- 

 pofed of ten feathers : the quills are brown, with the outer edges 

 green : the fore part of the neck and breaft deep yellow 1 on the 

 lower part of the breaft is a pretty large red fpot j the reft of the 

 parts beneath yellowifli white, fpotted longitudinally with green : 

 the legs and claws are afh-colour. 

 Place. Inhabits the country of Maynas y on the borders of the river 



Amazons^ in South America -, and perhaps in other parts of that 

 continent alfo. 



GREATER 



PJED 



B. 



Description, 



Tamatia noir & Wane, Buf. oif. vii. 99. 



Le plus grand Barbu a gros bee de Cayenne, PI. en!. 689. 



'T'HIS is about feven inches in length, and is fomewhat remark- 

 able for the fize of the bill, which exceeds that of the other 

 fpecies both in length and thicknefs -, it is pretty hooked ; and, as 

 it were, divided into two parts at the tip, like the firft fpecies j 

 1 the 



