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WAX-BILLED
B.
It is-alfo a native of India; as I met with it among the drawings
of-Lady Impey.
Doubtful Barbet, G#n. Syti. ii. p. 5.06. Nb 16.
Br. Mu/.
j^N the Britijh Mufeum is a fine fpecimen of this bird, which dif-
“ fers fomewhat from my former defcription. The bill is wholly
of a pale yellowilh colour; the under mandible fmooth, without
any tranfverfe channels : the crown has' a mixture of crimfon feathers,
which pafs behind each eye, and afterwards extend forwards
to blend with the crimfon on the fore parts: the greater wing coverts
are tipped with crimfon, forming an oblique bar of the fame
acrofs the wing: on the middle of the back is a patch o f white,
and a thick tuft of filky white feathers, fquare at the ends.: all the
under parts are red ; but the chin, juft under the bill, is black,
and a fpot o f the fame juft at the bafe of the under mandible: the
general colour of the bird is blueifh black : the quills brown.
The above fpecimen came from Africa, but what part thereof
uncertain.
Red-billed Crow, Gen. Syn. i. p. 403,
CayenneBlack Cuckow, Id. i. p. 543*
Le Coucou noir de Cayenne, Bu/. Oif. vi. p. 416.— PI. Enl. 512.
Lev. Mu/,
IT is but lately that a perfeft fpecimen o f this bird has come under
my infpedtion; from which I am clear that the above two are one and the fame with this Barbet. I have only here to add,
that
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that the toes are not quite divided to the bottom : at the bend of
the wing, juft within, is placed a horn-coloured fpine, about one
eighth of an inch long, and blunt at the end: the tail compofed of
ten feathers, and the wings, when clofed, reach on it about an
inch.
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O I Z E o f the Bulfinch: length fix inches. Bill blue, hooked,
befet with very long hairs at the bafe, exceeding the end of the
b i l l : irides white : general colour o f the plumage green : forehead
red : round the eye and chin yellow : the reft o f the head
black: the under part o f the body white, ftreaked with green,
palling on each fide the neck in a crefcent, and bounding the yellow
chin : beneath this, it is red, and below it a fpot of yellow,
except which, the reft o f the under part is white: the quills are
dark alh-colour: legs red.
This inhabits India, and is called Bnffenluddoo. Taken from
the drawings o f Mr. Middleton. It feems greatly allied to the
Red-crowned Barbet *, and is a beautiful fpecies.
* Syn. vol. ii, p. joy.
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