222 BARBET. 



Native place uncertain, only met with among the engravings of 

 M. Gerini's birds, and there called a Woodpecker, but the bill is 

 large, and in shape, too like that of a Barbet, to be placed in any 

 other Genus. 



10. -YELLOW-THROATED BARBET. 



Bucco Philippensis, Ind. Orn. i. 203. Gm. Lin. i. 407. Bris. iv. 99. t. 7. f. 2. male. 



Id. 8vo. ii. p. 69. Gen. Zool.'xx. p. 21. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 181. 

 Barbu a Gorge jaune, Buf. vii. 102. t. 5. Pl.enl.331. 

 Yellow-throated Barbet, Gen. Syn. ii. 500. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill brown, pretty thick, and 

 near one inch long ; the top of the head, as far as the crown, red ; 

 the rest of the head, and upper parts of the body, wings, and tail 

 dull green; on each side of the head a large yellow spot, in the 

 middle of which the eye is placed ; throat, and fore part of the neck 

 yellow ; on the upper part of the breast a transverse broad red band; 

 the rest of the under parts dirty yellow, longitudinally streaked with 

 dull green ; legs yellowish ; claws brown. 



One of these, said to be a female, was in general olive green ; 

 round the eye pale yellow ; on the forehead a mixture of red ; chin 

 pale, mixed yellow ; below this, on the throat, a mixture of pale 

 red, as in the forehead ; on each jaw a brown patch ; from the breast 

 to the vent pale dull greenish white; bill as in the other; legs red. 

 From Lord Mountnorris. 



A. — Length six inches. Bill black, with long hairs, from the 

 nostrils, covering the greater part of the forehead ; from thence, to 

 the middle of the crown, and just round the eye, red; irides dark, 

 with a pale ring ; the rest of the head, as far as the under jaw, and 



