species with Hodgson’s Lineated Barbet ( M. hodgsoni ) — and hence the extended range which 
he erroneously ascribes to it: the absence of specimens of the latter bird in the Leyden 
Museum at the time he wrote is sufficient to account for the mistake. 
Temminck also says that it has been confounded with Buffon’s ‘ Grand Barbu ” 
( M . virens), and gives Sumatra and Borneo as localities, probably erroneously, as it is not 
borne out by modern research. He gives the length as 11 inches. 
According to Bocarme’s MSS., “ This species is found in Java, in the low trees which 
grow among the thick brushwood, where fruit is abundant : when startled it dashes out of 
the thicket with loud cries of 4 Kouak-kouaJc.’ It lays two white eggs in March, in the 
trunks of dead trees. 
“ It is not a timid bird, and hops about leisurely from branch to branch, at the tops of 
the higher trees; it does not climb, as do the other Barbets, and it has a sluggish and 
awkward appearance. Its stomach contained berries, and ripe and unripe figs, which it had 
swallowed whole.” 
There is a good figure of this bird by Temminck in the ‘ Planches Coloriees,’ but in no 
other work that we are aware of. 
Our Plate and description were taken from an adult specimen from Java in our own 
collection. 
