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GREAT BARBET. 



row stripes of black : the six middle feathers are 

 equal in length : the three others on each side 

 gradually shorter to the outer one, which is the 

 shortest of all: legs and claws ash-coloured. 

 Found at Guiana, but rarely. 



GREAT BARBET. 

 (Bucco grandis.) 



Bu. viridis versicolor-, remigibus nigro variegatis; capite colloque 



cyaneis ; crisso riifo. 

 Changeable green Barbet, with the quill-feathers variegated 



with black ; head and neck blue ; vent red. 

 Bucco grandis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 408. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 



204. 10. 



Grand Barbu de la Chine. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 10(5. 

 Grand Barbet. Lath. Syn. 2. 503. 10. 



Length eleven inches : the beak rather more 

 than an inch and three quarters in length, whitish, 

 with the tip black : the base covered with strong 

 black bristles, and about one inch thick : for the 

 most part the plumage is of a line green, which 

 differs in various parts of the body, as the head 

 and fore parts of the neck incline to blue, ac- 

 cording to the disposition of the lights, and the 

 hind part of the neck, with part of the back, are 

 of a chesnut brown : the greater quill-feathers 

 have a mixture of black: and the under tail- 

 coverts are of a fine red: the legs are dusky 

 yellow r . 



