CAYENNE BARBET. 



(Bucco Cayenensis.) 



Bu. niger ; pennis margine griseo aureis ; suhtus alho-fiaxncaris ; 



Jronte gulaque ruhris ; superciliis albis. 

 Black Barbet, with the feathers margined with grey gold ; 



beneath whitish yellow ; forehead and throat red, above the 



eyes white. 



Bucco Cayenensis. Bris. 4. Q5. 2. t. J.f. l.—Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1.405.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 202. 2. 

 Le Tamatia a tete et gorge rouges. Buff. Hist, Nat. Ois. 7. go. 

 Barbu de Cayenne. Buff. PL Enl. 206. !. 

 Cayenne Barbet. Lath. Syn. 2. 495. 2. 



Length seven inches : the beak about an inch 

 long, of a dark ash-colour : the forehead and 

 throat are red : top of the head black and grey, 

 with a golden gloss ; each feather black in the 

 middle ; there is a band of white passing over the 

 eye on each side of the head, almost to the back : 

 sides of the head black : the upper parts of the 

 body black : edges of the feathers grey gold : fore 

 part of the neck, breast and belly, yellowish 

 white ; the side sprinkled with cinereous olive, 

 and some of the feathers at the tip marked with 

 black : thighs olive : the lesser wing-coverts black : 

 the greater ones and scapulars blackish, marked 

 on the outside with a yellowish white spot : quills 

 blackish margined with olive on the outer part, 

 and whitish on the inner: the tail cuneiform; 

 olive brown above, and cinereous beneath : legs 

 and claws cinereous. Inhabits Cayenne, Guiana 3 

 and St. Domingo, 



v. jx. p. 1. 3 



