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are tinged with chestnut brown ; the greater quills mixed with black ; 

 under tail coverts fine red ; legs dusky yellow. 

 Inhabits China. 



A. — Length ten inches. Bill reddish brown, stout, with six or 

 eight bristles at the base and nostrils ; round the eye bare, and red- 

 dish ; plumage in general dull green ; breast and belly pale, or 

 whitish green ; quills black ; tail short, green ; legs pale yellow. 



Inhabits India ; by the English there, called Honest Face ; it is 

 probably the female. From the drawings of Lady Impey. 



25.— JAVAN BARBET. 



Bucco Jarensis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 181. 



THIS is rather larger than the Missel Thrush ; length scarcely 

 nine inches. Bill very stout, black, with long hairs, coming forwards 

 from the base on each side ; plumage in general green ; crown yel- 

 lowish ; over the eye a black streak, and a second over the jaw ; chin 

 crimson, beneath it black, and below this a crimson spot ; on each 

 side of the gape a spot of yellow ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits Java. A fine specimen of this is in the Museum of the 

 India House, called by the Javanese, Chodock. — That described in 

 Lin. Trans, measured eleven inches ; the crown orange, as is also 

 the spot on each side of the gape; in other things the two descriptions 

 coincide. 



26— INDIAN BARBET. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill very stout, furnished with long 

 hairs at the base ; crown crimson ; through the eye dusky ; towards 



