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Until now I seem to have said nothing to recommend my 
Baibet, in fact given him a very bad character. A difficult bird 
to cater for, bad-tempered, and a destructive bird, but taking all 
this into account I have never regretted buying him and sliould 
be very sorry to part with him. After all is said and done we do 
not always want the birds that are easiest to keep, and he certainly 
repays me for all the trouble he has been, by the splendid con- 
dition he has come to this year. I tliinkhe wants human society, 
as it was when he was left alone in the bird-room he first took to 
knocking his cage about. 
The other Barbet, which came with him, was purchased by 
the Zoo, and was first placed in the New Bird House, is as bad 
tempered as mine, as I heard one of our members found out at 
the expense of a nasty bite on the finger. Since seeing it there 
I have come to the decision that they are a pair. I think the one 
at the Zoo is a hen, the beak is a trifle shorter and the colour is 
not so brilliant, but it may have improved in that respect as I 
have not seen it for some time, and I hear it has been placed in 
the Western Aviary. 
Jlbc (Benus noeoalaeina. 
By W. T. Page, F.Z.S., etc. 
This consists of but two species, which have but few distinctive 
differences, and have been natch confused together, as the following partial 
synonymy from B.M. Cat., Vol. XIX., will illustrate. 
Megalamn marshallorum. 
? I.e Grand liarbu, Levaill 
Bucco grandis, Gould 
Megalaima grandis, Gray 
Megalainia virens mec Bodd), Blyih 
Megalaima virens (nec Bodd), Irby 
Megakcnia marshallorum, Swnth etc. 
Megalama virens. 
Grand Barbu de la Chine, D'Aitbent 
Grand liarbu, Buff, Levaill 
Grand liarbet, Lath 
Bucco virens, Bodd, Tabl 
Bucco grandis, lenim 
Capito grandis, Viciil. 
Megalaima virens, Gray 
Megalasma virens, Swinh Hume, .ttc. 
Megalrema marsluillorum (nec Swinlt), 
Blytk and Waldcn etc. 
Kky lo THK SPKCiKS [B.M.C, Vol. -V/.V.] 
a. Wing-coverts washed with maroon ; head green virens. 
b. Wing-coverts green not washed with maroon ; head blue viarslialloriim. 
Kky lO THB Species ["Fauna of British India," Blandford], 
riead and neck deep violet-blue yl/. marshallurttm. 
Head and neck verditer with a greenish tinge. virens. 
