XANTHOLiEMA ROSEA 
(THE EOS E-N ECKED BARBET.) 
Bucco roseus . 
Le Barbu rose-gorge 
Capito rosaeeicollis . 
Le cabezon rose-gorge 
Bucco barbiculus 
Megalaima rosea 
Megalaima (Xantholcema) rosea 
Xantholcema rosea . 
roseicollis 
(1806) Dum. ; Diet. Sci. Nat. IV. p. 52. 
(1806) Le Vaill. ; Barbus, pi. 33. 
(1816) Vieill. ; N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. IV. p. 500. 
(1816) Vieill. ; N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. IV. p. 500. 
(1817) Cuv. ; Beg. An. I. p. 428. 
(1829) Vigors ; Mem. Baffl. p. 667. 
(1846) G. B. Gray; Gen. of B. II. p. 429. 
(1854) Bonap.; Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 12. 
(1856) Horsf. & Moore, Cat. of B. II. p. 647. 
X. sexibus similibus : fronte coccinea : subtus striata : gutture cocoineo. 
Hab. in insula “ Java” dicta. 
Sexes alike; green; forehead, top of the head, a broad stripe below the eye, throat, 
and upper breast scarlet; upper plumage dark green, the occiput and nape washed with 
cindery blue ; quills brown, exterior web edged with green, and interior web yellowish 
white at base; lores, a band across the head, cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of the neck 
black ; underparts yellowish white, irregularly striped with dark green ; bill black ; irides 
brown; orbital skin red; legs and feet coral-red. Wing 3", tail 1"’3. 
Hab. Java ( mus . nostr.). 
The Eose-necked Barbet is (like other species found in Java) peculiar to that island, 
and is the sole representative of the genus Xantholcema there. It differs from all, except 
X. hcemacephala, by its striped breast, and from that species by its red throat. 
The following note is from Bocarme’s MSS. preserved at Leyden : 
“ Common all over the island of Java, where its monotonous note, resembling ‘ hunkook , 
Additional references. — Bucco roseus : Cuvier (1829), Begn. An. p. 457 ; Hartlaub (1841), Bev. Zool. p. 33/. 
Megalaima rosea : Goffin (1863), Cat. Mus. Pays-Bas, Bucc. p. 27 ; G. B. Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 9. 
