GYMNOBUCCO CALVUS. 
(THE BALD-HEADED B A R B E T.) 
Bucco calvus (1841) Lafresn. ; Rev. Zool. p. 241. 
Megalaima calva (1846) G. R. Gray ; Gen. of Birds, ii. p. 429. 
Gymnobucco calvus (1854) Hartl. ; Cab. Journ. Om. p. 195. 
peli (1857) Hartl. ; Syst. Orn. W. Afr. p. 174. 
Gymnocranus calvus (I860) Heine ; Cab. Journ. Orn. p. 191. 
p^li (1860) Heine ; Cab. Journ. Orn. p. 191. 
Megalaima calvus (1868) G. R. Gray; Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 16. 
p^li . . . . . . . (1868) G. R. Gray; Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 16. 
(J , G. terricolor, olivaceo lavatus : setis densis post nares flavescenti-brunneis : capite calvo. 
2 . Mari similis, sed setis post nares deficientibus. 
Hob. in Africa occidentali. 
Ifa/e.— Head of a dark blue colour, entirely bare, with a few black bristles here and 
there ; upper plumage earthy brown, washed with an olivaceous tinge ; under surface lighter 
brown ; bill reddish yellow, bluish at the base ; there is a bunch of stubby yellowish-brown 
bristles behind each nostril, a smaller one at the base of the lower mandibles and under the 
chin; irides reddish yellow; legs and feet blackish. Wing 3"-l, tail l"-85. 
Female.— f^d.me as the male in colour, but wants the bristles behind the nostrils, and 
the other ones are hardly visible. 
Hob. West Africa. Dabocrom {Pel) ; Fantee {Sharpe) ; Gaboon {Verreaux). 
The Bald-headed Barbet comes from the Gaboon and Fantee countries; it was first 
described by Lafresnaye in 1841. In 1857 Hartlaub described another species of this genus 
Additional references.-5ucco calvus: Hartlaub (1841), Rev. Zool. p. 337; Bonaparte (1854), Consp. Voluer. 
Zyg. p. 12. Megalaima calva: Goffin (1863), Cat. Mus. Pays-Bas, Bucc. p. 49. Gymnobucco calvus: Hartlaub 
(1857), Syst. Orn. W. Afr. p. 174, no. 519 ; Verreaux (1859), P. Z. S. p. 397 ; Sbarpe (1871), Cat. Afr. B. p. 16. 
Gymnobucco peli : Verreaux (1859), P. Z. S. p. 327 ; Sharpe (1869), Ibis, p. 193. 
