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young birds, and eggs ; for which latter tliey will readily attack the 
nests of other birds. It is in the holes in trunks of trees that the 
female deposits generally two eggs. These birds, when in a state of 
repose, resemble a round ball of feathers, as their head is usually 
placed over the shoulders, while the bill is entirely concealed beneath 
the feathers of the back and greater wing-coverts ; the tail is brought 
over the back, and the body is closely applied to the branch on which 
they are perched." — (Gray's Gen. of Birds.) 
Fam. III. PICID^, Vigors. 
Subfam. I. MEGALAIMINA. 
Genus Laimodon, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of B. (1841). 
PoGONiAS, Illiger, 'Prod. (1811). 
PoGONiA, Vieillot (1816). 
920. LAIMODON SALT I, Stanley Sp. 
Bucco Saltii, Stanley, Salt's Trav. in Abyss. App. TV. 
p. 54 (1814). Latham, Hist, of B. III. p. 238, 
t. 53. 
Laimodon Salti, G, B. Gray, Gen. ofB. II. p. 428. 
Pogonias Salti, Bonap., G. G. Av. p. 145. 
Pogonias rubrifrons, Swainson, Zool. III. t. 68. 
Pogonias Brucei, BUppell, Faun. Abyss, t. 20, f. 1. 
Abyssinian Barbet, Latham. 
A. Abyssinia. From Harris's Collection. 
Genus Megalaima, G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. II. p. 429 (1846). 
921, MEGALAIMA VIBENS, Boddaert Sp. 
Bucco virens, Boddaert, Tabl. des Bl. Enl. d'Aubent. 
(1783). (PZ. Enl. 871. Le Vaill., Barb. t. 20.) 
Megalaima virens, G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. II. p. 429. 
Hodgs,, Cat. B. of Nep. p. 114. Blyth, Cat. B. 
Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 66. 
Bucco grandis, Gmel., S. N. I. p. 408. Lath., Hist, of 
B. III. p. 230. Gould, Cent, of B. t. 46. Blyth, 
