230 BARBET. 



stout hairs ; forehead to middle of the crown and sides before the eye 

 crimson; chin pale reddish orange, the rest of the plumage dark 

 dusky green ; wings and tail the same; legs brown ; on the throat, 

 just above the breast, a few red feathers, but as the specimen was in 

 bad condition, a further account could not be obtained. 



Inhabits Ceylon, named Mai Kottorea. — In the collection of 

 Mr. Comyns. I suspect this to be the male of the Yellow-cheeked 

 Species. 



23— AUSTRAL BARBET. 



Bucco Australis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 181.— Horsfield. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. General colour of the plumage 

 olive-green ; forehead, chin, under the tail and the scapular feathers 

 verditer green ; cheeks, throat, and breast saffron -col our; between 

 them a transverse black band ; quills and tail blackish brown, the 

 feathers of the latter have externally a dusky-yellowish border. 



Inhabits Java ; called Truntung. 



24— GRAND BARBET. 



Bucco grandis, Ind. Orn. i. 204. Gmel. Lin. i. 408. Tern. Man. Ed. ii, Anal. p. Ixxviii. 



Grand Barbu, Buf. vii. 106. PL enl. 871. 



Grand Barbet, Gen. Syn. ii. 503. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 40. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill one inch and three-quarters long, 

 and one thick at the base, where it is beset with black bristles; colour 

 whitish, with a black tip ; plumage chiefly fine green, but differs in 

 various parts; for the head, and fore part of the neck incline to blue 

 in different lights, but the hind part of the neck, and part of the back 



