species with Hodgson's Lineated Barbet (ilf. hodgsoni)—and hence t h e extended range which
he erroneously ascribes to i t : 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 modem 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 ' Koudk-koudlc.' It lays two white eggs in March, in the
trunks of dead trees.
" I t 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 Colorices,' but in no
other work t h a t we are aware of.
Our Plate and description were taken from an adult specimen from Java in our own
collection.