B A R B E T. 



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CIZE of a Lark : length feven inches. The bill is one inch in 

 length, curved at the point, and comprefled on the fides ; the 

 colour brownifli black ; but the bafe is yellow, pafling obliquely- 

 forward from the noftrils to near the end of the lower mandible : 

 the noftrils are covered with briftles pointing forwards, about 

 one-third of the length of the bill : the head is large, and very 

 full of feathers : the plumage is brown throughout, with a dafh 

 of a pale cream-colour down the fhaft of each feather: on the 

 breaft is a large triangular whitifh fpot : the quills and tail 

 are plain brown, the laft cuneiform : the legs brown : toes 

 placed two and two, asin others of the genus. 



Suppofed to inhabit Cayenne, as it was in a parcel of birds 

 which came from that place. 



, J 3- 

 WHITE- 

 BREASTED 

 B. 



Description. 



Pl, 



Red-crowned Barbet, Brown's Illujir. p. 30. pi. 14. 



CIZE of a Goldfinch : length five inches and a half. Bill dufky : 

 crown and throat fcarlet : above each eye a black line on the 

 cheeks ; and above each fhoulder a great whitifh fpot : back and 

 -wing coverts fine green : prime quills dufky : breaft yellow ; in 

 the middle a fhort tranfverfe bar of black, and another of red : 

 belly white : tail green ; the exterior feathers dufky : legs 

 pale red. 



Inhabits Ceylon. 



14. 



RED- 

 CROWNED 

 B. 

 Description, 



Place. 



3T 



Yellov 



