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Show 334 AVES. • INDICAToR, Vaill. The Indicators are also inhabitants of Africa, and, as they feed honey have become celebrated for guiding the natives to the on ' . l d . retreats of the wild bees, which they seek w1th ou crtes. Their beak is short, high, and nearly conical, like that of the Finch. Their tail oftwelve quills is at once slightly cuneiform, and p~rtly forked. Their singularly hard skin shields them from th~ stmg~ of the bees, which, being continually persecuted, sometimes ktll them by attacking their eyes.( 1) The BARB.A.oous, Vaill.(2) Have a conical, elongated beak, but little compressed, and slightly arcuated at the end, whose base is furnished with slender feathers or stiff hairs, which ally them to the Barbets.( 3) MALCOHA, Vail1.(4) A very stout beak, round at base, and arcuated near the point, with a large naked space about the eyes. The nostrils of some(5) are round, and placed near the base of the beak, in others they are nar· row and situated near its edge.(6) They are natives of Ceylon, and as it is said, live chiefly on fruit. It is probable that we should distinguish those species in which the beak is not so stout, and which have scarcely any of the naked space about the eyes.(7) ScYTHROPs, Lath. The beak still longer and stouter than that of Malcoha, and (1) Ouculus indicator, Vaill. Afr. 241;-minor, Nob. Id. 24;-albiroatris, T. CoL 367. Vieill. has adopted this name and genus, Gal. 45. . (2) Barbacou, composed of barbet and cuckoo. From it Vieill. has made his genus M:ol.{ABIA, Gal. 36. d (3) Cuculus tranquillus, Enl. 512; Spix, 41, 2;-C. tenebroaua, Enl. 505, an Col. 323, 2;-C. rufalbinus, T. Col. 323;-Monasa personata, Vieill. Gnl. 36, or Bucco albifrons, Spix, 41. • A 1 N.B. We should also observe, that the Cue. paradis::eus, Briss. IV, pl. XIV, '~ is the Drongo de Paradis (Lanius malabaricus ), and that the Cue. sinensis, Id.Jb.b · fi L v illant W 0 2, IS the Corvus erythrm·hynchos. These two remarks are rom e a ~st has done more to elucidate the history of the Cuckoos than any other nat (4) Vieill. calls the Malcoha, PnmNICOPHJEus, Gal. 37. (5) The Malcolta RQU/IJerdin, Vaill. Afr. 223. (6) The Malcoha, Id., 224; or Cue. pyrrocepltalus, Forster, 3, V1·e J· n · Gal · 37P. h. (7) The Malcoha d bee peint (Phrenicophreus calyorhynchus, T.) Col. 349;- a ni. javanicus, Horsf., Jav. SCANSORIJE. 335 grooved on each side with two shallow longitudinal furrows ; circumference o~ the e~es naked; nostrils round. These birds approach the Toucans m the1r beak; but their simple tongue, which is not ciliated, separates them. One species only is known, which is as large as a Crow, whitish, with a grey mantle; found in New Holland.( 1) Bucco, Lin.(2) The Barbets have a thick conical beak, inflated on the sides of its base, and furnished with five bundles of stiff hairs directed forwards• one behind the nostril, one on each side of the base of the lowe; jaw.' and the ~fth under its symphysis. The wings are short, and ~he1r proport~ons are heavy, as is also their flight. They live on ~nsects, and will attack small birds; they also eat fruit. They build m the hollows of trees. We may divide them into three subgenera: The BARBIOANs, Buff.-PoGONIAs, Illig.(3) H~ve one or t~o ~trong teeth on each side of the upper mandible, the r1dge of whtch 1s blunt and arcuated; the hairs on the beak are remarkably rigid. They are more frugivorous than the other species, and are found in India and Africa.( 4) Buooo, Cuv.(5) In the true Barbets, the beak is simply conical and slightly compressed, with a blunt ridge, somewhat raised in the middle. They are found in both continents, and several of them are ornamented with bright colours. During the nuptial season they fly in pairs, and the remainder of the year in small flocks.(6) (1) Scythrops novre-lwllandire, I.ath. or Scyth. australasire; Sh., Philip. ltiS and John White, p. 142; two bad figures. Those are better in Col. 290 and Vieill. G~3~ ' (2) Buc.co, the name given to this genus by B1•isson, on account of the inflation of the mandible at its base, from bucca (cheek). (3) HAnnrcANs, because they are connected with both the Barbets and the Toucans·· Po GONas, fir om b · . ?rCil)-41V1 eard; but the latter has long been applied to a genus of fishes by Lacepede. 60 (4) B~cco dubius, Gm. (Pogonias sulcirostris), Leach, Zool. Misc. II, 76, Enl. ~; V~ill., Ois. de par. etc. II, pl. xix;-Pog. erythromelas, Vieill. Gal. 32;-P. rostrts, Leach, 77; Vaill., pl. K; Le barb. d ventre rose, Vaill.loc. cit. pl. A, is its ~ung;:-P. personatus, T. Col. 201;-P. niger, Enl. 688, 1; Vaill., 29, 30, 31;- , rubtcon, Vaill. pl. D. , (5) Vieillot has changed this name into CA.Pno. 55( 6 ) Bucco grandis, Enl. 8n;-t~iridis, Enl. 870;~flavifrons, Nob. Vaill., I, cit. !-cyanops, Nob., Id., lb., 21, or Capito cyanocollis, Vieill. Gal. 35;-Lathami, |