CAPITO QUINTICOLOR. 
(F I V E-C OLOURED BARBET.) 
Capita quinticolor . . . (1865) Elliot ; Nouv. Arch, du Museum, I. Bullet, p. 76, pi. iv. fig. 1. 
» » ... (1870) Gray; Hand-1, of B. II. p. 178. 
C. cauda brevi: culmine simo: major: rostro plumbeo: supra niger, flavo variegatus : gutture albo : fronte 
nigra. 
Hah. in Nova Granada. 
Upper surface of the body black, all the feathers of the crown, occiput, and neck 
tipped with blood-red ; feathers of the back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, as well as the 
secondaries and a transverse band across the wing-coverts, yellow, with a slight dash of 
green ; chin, cheeks, throat, sides and fore part of the neck white, washed with pale yellow ; 
breast and middle of the belly orange-yellow ; flanks and under tail-coverts spotted with 
black on an olive ground; quills and tail-feathers tinged with olive-brown; bill black, 
whitish at the base ; tarsi lead-colour. Total length T46 metre, wing when closed -09, 
tail '05, bill from forehead *02, tarsus '02. 
Hah. New Granada ( Triana ). 
This Barbet, of which only a single specimen is known, in the Paris Museum, was 
described originally by Mr. D. G. Elliot. It is allied to C. maculicoronatus of Lawrence, 
and was sent by M. Triana from New Granada. 
Our descriptions and figures are copied from the original paper in the ‘ Nouvelles 
Archives,’ as we have never seen the bird ourselves. 
