BARBET. 227 



pale brownish ash ; breast greenish, the feathers margined with 

 brown, and somewhat long ; lower belly, thighs, and vent green ; 

 legs brownish yellow. 



Inhabits India ; brought from thence by the late M. de Fichtel ; 

 it is also not uncommon at Ceylon. 



A. — Length seven inches. Bill large, convex above, pale red ; 

 from the nostrils ten or twelve long hairs, nearly reaching to the end 

 of the bill ; round the eye bare and yellow ; head and neck pale 

 brown, streaked with white down the shafts ; all beneath dusky 

 white; towards the vent greenish white; wings, back, and tail green; 

 the legs pale. 



Inhabits India; called Bussunta Burrah. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



B. — A second Variety had the space round the eye red, like that 

 part in the Pheasant ; few or no hairs at the nostrils ; close round the 

 chin and back of the neck the feathers are short, narrow, and white ; 

 also a mixture of white about the neck; legs almost black. 



16.— LITTLE BARBET. 



Bucco parvus, Ind. Orn.i. 204. Gin. Lin. i. 407. 

 Petit Barbu du Senegal, Buf. vii. 105. PL enl. 746. 2. 

 Little Barbet, Gen. Syn.n. 503. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 29. 



THIS is only four inches in length. Bill brown ; plumage above 

 blackish brown, tinged with fulvous, but on the quills inclines to 

 green ; the feathers of the first edged with white ; beneath the body 

 white, dashed perpendicularly with brown ; throat yellow ; at the 

 angles of the mouth a short white streak, passing beneath the eye ; 

 legs pale red, or flesh-colour. 



Inhabits Senegal. 



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