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A. — Length six inches. Bill bluish, and bristly at the base ; on 

 each side of the forehead a yellow spot, bounded with black ; fore 

 part of the head reddish orange, with a small yellow spot on the 

 upper side, bordered by a black line, which passes from the bill over 

 the eye ; on the cheeks and wing coverts a greenish white spot ; breast 

 straw-colour, crossed with a crimson band, bounded by a stripe of 

 black on both sides ; belly pale ash-colour, fringed with green ; hind 

 part of the head, neck, back, wings, and tail deep green, edged with 

 paler ; quills part dusky, part green ; legs red. 



Inhabits Ceylon and Batavia, communicated by the late Mr. 

 Pennant. — I suspect that it has in part the manners of the Yellow- 

 cheeked Species, as it is, like that, called Kottorea. 



13— INDIAN BARBET. 



Bucco Indicus, Lid. Orn. i. 205. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 27. 

 Indian Barbet, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 97. 



SIZE of a Bulfinch; length six inches. Bill blue, hooked, beset 

 with long hairs at the base, exceeding the length of the bill ; irides 

 white ; plumage in general green ; forehead red ; round the eye and 

 chin yellow ; the rest of the head black ; under part of the body 

 white, streaked with green, passing on each side of the neck in a 

 crescent, and bounding the yellow chin ; beneath this it is red, and 

 below that a spot of yellow ; excepting which, the rest of the 

 under parts are white; quills dark hazel ; legs red. 



Inhabits India, and is there called Bussenbuddo. — From the 

 drawings of the late Mr. Middleton. It is a beautiful bird, and 

 seems much allied to the Red-crowned Species. 



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