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B A R B E 1\ 



YELLOW- 

 CHEEKED 



Yellow-cheeked Barbet, Brown s lllujlf. p. 34. pi. 15. 



Description. 



Place. 



CIZE of the laft. Bill red : head and neck pale brown, clouded: 

 fides of the head, round the eyes, naked and yellow : back 

 pale green : wing coverts the fame ; the middle of each feather 

 fpotted with white : primaries green; interior edges dufky : belly 

 pea-green : tail green : legs pale yellow. 



This was alfo fent from Ceylon, with the laft, by Governor Loleit. 



■j 6. 



DOUBTFUL 

 B. 



Le Barbican, Buf. eif. vii. p. IJ2. 



Le Barbican, des Cotes de Barbarie, Pi. enl, 601 



Description. '"T^HIS bird is nine inches in length. The bill is eighteen lines 

 long, and ten in thicknefs at the bafe, where many long 

 black briftles take their origin, reaching beyond the noftrils : the 

 upper mandible is bent, and has two notches at fome diftance 

 from the tip ; and the under mandible is tranfverfely channeled 

 beneath : the colour of the bill is reddifh.: the upper parts of the 

 body, wings, and tail, are black; the laft is three inches and a half 

 long : the under parts of the body are red, except a band on the 

 upper part of the breaft, which is black : the thighs and vent are 

 alfo of this laft colour : the legs are very fhort, and of a reddifh- 

 brown-colour : toes placed two before and two behind. 

 Place n ^ ls ^°' n< ^ in ^ a ^ lts tne Coafis of Barbary, and is of a doubtful 



Observations, genus. Buffon places it between the Barbets and Toucans, to both 

 of which irfeems to belong j however, it feems molt to incline to 



the 



