YELLOWCHEEKED
B.
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DOUBTFUL
B.
D escription.
Place and
O bservations.
Yellow-cheeked Barbet, Brovjtis lllnjlr. p. 34. pi. 15;
C IZ E of the laft. Bill red : head and neck pale brown, clouded:
fides of the head, round the eyes, naked and yellow 4 back
pale green: wing coverts the fame; the middle of each feather
fpotted with white : primaries green; interior edges dufky 4 belly
pea-green : tail green : legs pale yellow.
This was' alfo fent from Ceylon, with the laft, by Governor Lolen.
Le Barbican, Buf. eif. vii. p. 132.
Le Barbican, des Cotes de Barbarie, PI. enl. 602.
THIS bird is nine inches in length. The bill is eighteen lines
long, and ten in thic'knefs at the bafe, where many long
black briftles take their origin, reaching beyond the noftrils : the
upper mandible is bent, and has two notches at fome diftance
from the tip ; and the under mandible is tranfverfely channeled
beneath : the colour of the bill is reddifh: the upper parts of the
body, wings, and tail, are black; the laft is three inches and a half
long : the under parts of the body are red, except a band on the
upper part of the breaft, which is black : the thighs and vent are
alfo of this laft colour: the legs are very fhort, and of a reddifh-
brown-colour : toes placed twb before and two behind.
This bird inhabits the Coafls of Barbary, and is "of a doubtful
genus. Buffon places it between the Barbets and 'toucans, to both
of which it feems to belong; however, itfeems moft to incline to
. the
the former: Firft, from its place of nativity, as no true Toucan is
found throughout the old Continent: Secondly, the tongue is
flefhy, and not pennaceous, which laft is one of the charafteriftics
of the, Toucan genus: And thirdly, the briftles which projeft from
the bafe of the bill, added to the others, incline me to give it
place in this chapter.
g I Z E of a Blackbird ': length eleven inches and a half. Bill one
inch and a half long ; rather comprelTed on the fides, and curved
the whole length, but moft fo near the' tip; the colour that of
vermilion, or fine red fealing-wax : the noftrils are covered with
reflefted briftles ; and befides thefe a few others, which reach
more forward on the bill: the head, neck, and upper parts of
the body, duiky black : lefier wing coverts, neareft the body,
mixed with white : breaft and belly cinereous : quills and tail of
a full black; the laft rounded in lhape : legs duiky: toes placed
two and two as in other Barbetr.
Some fpecimens are of a fuller black than others, and the afh-
colour.on the under parts deeper.
Suppofed to inhabit Cayenne. I have lately feen feveral of the
above which came from that place, and much fufpeft them to be
the fame with the red-billed Crow, p. 403, as I remember that at
the time of my defcribing the laft, I had not a view of the-legs ,
fufficient to identify the genus..
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