CAPITO GUINTICOLOB.
( F I V E - C O L O U R E D B A R B E T .)
Capita quinticolor . . . (1865) Elliot; Nouv. Arch, du Museum, I. Bullet, p. 76, pi. iv. fig. 1.
. . . (1870) Gray; Hand-1. ofB. II. p. 178.
C. cauda brevi: culmine simo: major: rostro plumbeo: supri uiger, flavo variegatus: gutture albo: fronte
nigra.
Hob. 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 -146 metre, wing when closed -09,
tail -05, bill from forehead -02, tarsus -02.
Hob. 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 G. 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.