MEGALiEMA JAVENSIS. 
(THE BLAC K-B EEASTED JAVAN BARBET.) 
Le Barbu Icotorea ...... 
Bucco javensis ...... 
„ tristis ...... 
,, Icotorea ...... 
Megalaima javensis . ... ■ 
Megalcema javensis ..... 
Chotorea javensis ...... 
M. sexibus similibus : viridis : gutture eoccineo : 
(1807) Le Yaill. ; Barbus, Suppl. p. 42, fig. C. 
(1820) Horsf. ; Trans. Linn. Soo. XIII. p. 181. 
(1822) Drap. ; Diet. Class. d’Hist. Nat. II. p. 195. 
(1831) Temm. ; PI. Col. p. 88 {texts'). 
(1842) G. B. Gray ; Gen. of B. II p. 429. 
(1854) Bonap. ; Consp. Voluer. Zyg. p. 12. 
(1856) Horsf. & Moore ; Cat. of B. II. p. 640. 
pallide sulphurea. 
Hab. in insula “Java” dicta. 
Sexes alike ; body green ; lores scarlet ; forehead and head straw-yellow, shading- into 
green at the back of the neck; sides of the face and a superciliary stripe black, tipped with 
green; a large yellow spot at the base of the lower mandible; the upper plumage rich dark 
green, the feathers of the nape and sides of the neck being edged with lighter green as m 
M. tnystacojoJianus, giving it a scalloped appearance ; chin, throat, and upper bieast deep 
scarlet, below which comes a broad irregular crescent of black, which joins on to the black 
of the face ; under surface bright grass-green ; tail underneath greenish blue ; the quills 
brown, the inner web pale yellowish at base, the outer bordered with green, especially on 
the secondaries, the innermost of which are almost entirely green, rictal biistles strongly 
developed; bill black; irides dark brown; legs and feet dull olive. Length about 9"-0, 
wing 4"T, tail 2" -9. 
Hab. Java. East Java (Wallace). Temminck also gives Sumatra as a locality; but 
this is probably an error. 
The Black-breasted Barbet is apparently confined to Eastern Java, where it is stated by 
Additional references . — Bucco javensis-. Hartlaub (1841), Kev. Zool. p. 337. Megalaima javensis: Goffin 
(1863), Mus. Pays-Eas, Bucc. p. 19 ; G. It. Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 6. 
