BARBICAN. 235 



Inhabits the Coast of Barbary. — A fine and perfect specimen in 

 the Museum of Mr. Bullock. 



2— SMOOTH-BILLED BARBICAN. 



Bucco dubius (3. Ind. Orn. i. 206. 16. 



Pogonius laevirostris, Smooth-billed Pogonias, Gen. Zool. ix. pi. 2. Zool. Misc. ii. 



t. 77. 

 Doubtful Barbet. Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 96. 



THIS bird is greatly similar to the last described, but the bill is 

 not channelled, or furrowed, being wholly smooth, and pale yellow, 

 and the indentations on the edge less conspicuous ; on the crown a 

 mixture of crimson feathers, which passes behind each eye, and 

 afterwards extending forwards to blend with the crimson on the fore 

 parts; the greater wing coverts tipped with crimson, forming an 

 oblique bar across the wing ; on the middle of the back a patch of 

 white, with a thick tuft of silky white feathers, square at the ends ; 

 all the under parts are red ; but the chin, close under the bill is black, 

 and a spot of the same just at the base of the under mandible ; the 

 general colour of the plumage otherwise black ; quills brown. 



Inhabits Africa. We have penned these as distinct species ; but 

 from the great coincidence in colour of the plumage, are by, no means 

 positive of their being so ; possibly the difference may be only owing 

 to sex. — M. Temminck receives the last described as young bird. 



3.— VIEILLOT'S BARBICAN. 



Pogonius Vieilloti, Vieillot's Pogonias, Gen. Zool. ix. p. 3.— (Frontispiece.) Zool: 

 Misc. ii. p. 104. t. 97. 



IN this the beak is smooth, not grooved ; plumage in general 

 brown ; head, neck, throat, and spots on the breast scarlet ; interior 

 wing quills externally with pale margins. 



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