228 BARBET. 



17— GREEN BARBET. 



Bucco viridis, Ind. Orn. i. 205. Gm. Lin. i. 408. 

 Barbu vert de Mahe, Buf. vii. 107. PL enl. 870. 

 Green Barbet, Gen. Syn. ii. 504. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 22. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Bill whitish, more than one 

 inch long, and seven lines thick at the base, where the upper 

 mandible is furnished with black bristles; head and neck greyish 

 brown, the feathers of the latter edged with whitish ; above the eye 

 a white spot, and a second beneath it ; the rest of the bird fine green, 

 paler beneath, except the greater quills, which are brown ; the legs 

 are dusky. 



Inhabits India ; brought from Mahe, on the Western Coast. 



18,— SPOTTED BARBET. 



Trogon maculatus, Ind. Orn. i. 201. Gm.Lin.i. 404. 



Barbu, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxviii. 



Spotted Curucui, Gen. Syn. ii. 491. Brown III. pi. 13. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 5. 



SIZE of the Nuthatch. Bill brown; crown deep green ; neck, 

 breast, and belly pale brown, barred with dusky ; edges of the wing 

 white ; coverts and secondaries green, tipped with white ; tail dusky, 

 barred with white. 



Inhabits Ceylon. 



19— SUMATRAN BARBET. 



SIZE small. General colour of the plumage green; chin pale 

 blue; on each side of the head three crimson spots; throat dark, or 

 dusky. 



Inhabits Sumatra and Java. 



