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to the nape, dusky black ; close to the eye two oval spots of yellow, 

 one above, at the back part, the other larger, below, and these two 

 spots are distinct from each other ; chin and throat yellow, curving a 

 little backwards, below the yellow a patch of red ; the rest as in 

 the first described. 



Inhabits various parts of the Coast of Coromandel. The nest 

 is a kind of pouch, about four inches deep, swelling a little at the 

 bottom, and open at top ; composed of thick, downy materials, and 

 fastened, in several parts, between the forked branches of the 

 extremities of trees. It is, no doubt, a Variety of the Yellow-throated 

 Species, and known by different names ; Bussunt buri, and Huria, at 

 Bengal ; and Bosenta, at Hindustan : found all the year in gardens 

 near Calcutta, and lives chiefly on plantains. From various drawings 

 in the collection of Sir J. Anstruther, it appears to vary much, 

 according to age or sex, both in plumage, and the colour of the legs. 

 Found also in Java, called Engku. 



11— BLUE-CHEEKED BARBET.— Pl. li. 



Trogon Asiaticus, Ind. Orn.\. 201. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 7. 

 Blue-cheeked Curucui, Gen. Syu. Sup. p. 93. 



LENGTH seven inches and three quarters. Bill black, strong, 

 compressed at the point, nearly one inch long, greenish at the base, 

 where it is depressed, and beset with long, black bristles, turning 

 forwards ; nostrils oblong; tongue lacerated at the end ; orbits naked, 

 brown ; margins of the eyelids crenated, and orange-coloured ; irides 

 brown ; frontlet and crown scarlet, divided between the eyes by a 

 black band, which bends at right angles, and becoming narrower, 

 bounds each side of the crown ; between the frontlet and this black 

 bar, is a whitish line ; cheeks, chin, and throat azure blue; below 

 each side of the latter a scarlet spot ; except the above, the general 



