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Barbets are confined to the old world : they are 

 of splendid colours, in which green and red predo- 

 minate ; they live in pairs during the period of incu- 

 bation, and in small flocks during the rest of the year. 



Sp. ]. Bu. grandis. Stepk. v. ix. p. 40. — China and India. 



Sp. 2. Bu. Javensis. Linn. Trans. {Horsf.) v. xiii. p. 18!, 



Bu. smaragdinus saturatus, p'lleo aurantio; fascid adlatera capitis 

 atrd auplici, una superciliari, altera Jugido tdrinqiie con7iiventi ; 

 gula, tcBtiidque transversa jugulari coccineis. 



Emerald-green Barbet witli the pileus orange; a double black 

 stripe on the sides of the head, one superciliary, the other 

 uniting on each side upon the jugulum ; the throat, and trans- 

 verse band on the jugulum crimson. 



Inhabits Java. ** Length eleven inches : a black 

 band originates at the base of the beak below the 

 nostrils, and includes the anterior angle of the eye ; 

 then divides, and proceeding backwards, one branch 

 terminates on the occiput, while the other, diverging 

 below the eyes, unites on the throat with that from 

 the opposite side. At the rictus of the beak is an 

 orange, and at the forehead, covering the stiff vibrissae, 

 a scarlet, spot : some of the plumes of the head, neck 

 and shoulders, and the upper side of the tail, have a 

 sea-green tint : the extremity of the remiges is brown: 

 the breast and belly are of a paler green : the beak is 

 very little curved at the tv^J^—Horsfield. 



Sp. 3. Bu. viridis. Steph. v. ix. p. 22. — India. 

 Sp. 4. Bu. cyanops. Cuvier. 



Trogon Asiaticus. Steph. v. ix, p. 7 ? — Blue-cheeked Barbets 

 Lath. Gen. Hist. v. iii.p. 223.pl. li. — India. 



Sp. 5. Bu. Lathami. Steph. v. ix.p. 28.pl. 5.~-India. 



