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Birds of Gambia. 
They are particularly handsome birds, about as big as a 
Tlirush and of very powerful build. Their plumage is bhuk ;ibovc 
with a white mantle sometimes edged with a little crimson, below 
crimson from chin to vent, with a broad black pectoral band and 
bright yellow patches on the sides. The strong, deeply notched 
beak is pink tinged with orange and surrounded by still' black bristles. 
The bare skin round the eyes is bright yellow. 
Lybius vieilloti. VIEILLOT'S BARBET. 
Range. North-east Africa, West Africa, Senegambia to 
Nigeria. (H.L.). 
A much smaller bird than the preceding; it has a yellow 
breast, red head and tiiroat mottled with black. Beak black and 
surrounded by short stiff bristles; legs, black; iris, burnt-sienna 
brown. Length, 6 incites. This Barbet is not very common in the 
Gambia Imt small parties may sometimes be seen feeding on the 
ripe fruit of some bush -tree. 1 had one alive for a few days, but 
it did not live. 
Tricholaema melanocephalum . 
Range. ^Senegambia, North-east Africa. (H.L.) 
This, species 1 do not know. Above it is yellow, mottled 
with black, and below, white; the head is longitudinally striped with 
black and white. Length, 4^ inches. 
Barhatula minuta. 
Range. Senegambia, North-east Africa. (H.L.) 
B. chrysocoma. GOLDEN-FRONTED BARBET. 
Range. Senegambia to Gold Coast; North-east Africa 
(H.L.) 
B. leucolaema. WHITE-THKOATEI) BARHET. 
Range. Senegambia to Congo; Equatorial Africa. (H.L.) 
B. scolopacea. YELLOW-SPECKLED BARBET. 
Range. Senegambia to Gaboon. (H.L.) 
These four Barbets are all small birds, whose prevailing 
(•(jlours are yellows, blacks and reds, variegated with white. I only 
know two different species, — I think minuta and chrysocoma, — which 
one sees occasionally feeding in small parties on tig, orange, ancf 
other trees or hunting their branches for insects. When thus occu- 
l)ied they look extremely hnch-like, both in shape and actions. I 
liave only seen them in or near Bathurst at the beginning of and 
during the rains. 
The following description of the differences between the 
four species I take from the British Museum Catalogue: 
Forehead, red or yellow. 
Fore-part of crown, crimson, with a very narrow frontal line 
minuta. (Length 3.8 inches). 
Fore-part of crown, orange-yellow, chrysocoma. (4 inches). 
Forehead, black, like the rest of the crown and mantle.; rump, 
yellow. leucolaem/i. (3.7 inches). 
Forehead, dark brown dike the rest of upper parts) with yellow 
