234 BARBICAN. 



GENUS XXII— BARBICAN. 



1 Groove-bellied Barbican 



2 Smooth-billed 



3 Vieillot's 



4 Black-throated 

 A Red-fronted 



5 Varied 



6 Abyssinian 



J. HE bill in this Genus is very stout and bent. At the edges of the 

 upper mandible, a double conspicuous notch, more or less channelled 

 on the sides ; under mandible less deep. 



Nostrils at the base, covered with hairs. 



Shins equal in length to the outer toe. 



Toes placed two before, and two behind, united as far as the 

 second joint. 



1— GROOVE-BILLED BARBICAN. 



Bucco dubius, Ind. Orn. i. 206. Gm. Lin. i. 409. 



Bucco bidentatus, Toothed-billed Barbet, Nat. Misc. pi. 393. 



Pogonius sulcirostris, Groove-billed Pogonias, Zool. Misc. pi. 76. Gen. Zool. ix. pi. 1. 



Der Barbican, Schmid Vog. p. 73. t. 23. 



Barbican, Buf. vii. p. 132. PI. enl. 602. 



Doubtful Barbet, Gen. Syn. ii. p. 506. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill one inch long, and ten lines thick 

 at the base, where many long black bristles take their origin, and 

 reach beyond the nostrils; the upper mandible bends downwards, 

 and has two notches on the edge, at some distance from the tip, and 

 on each side a longitudinal sulcus, finishing at the notch nearest the 

 tip ; the under mandible with four or five transverse furrows ; tongue 

 fleshy ; plumage on the upper parts, wings, and tail black, the last 

 three inches and a half long ; the under parts red, except a band on 

 the upper part of the breast, which is black ; middle of the back 

 white ; the thighs and vent black ; legs short, reddish brown. 



