Barbets (Capitonidae)

Yellow-spotted Barbet (Buccanodon duchaillui) - HBW 7, p. 187

French: Barbican à taches jaunes German: Gelbfleck-Bartvogel Spanish: Barbudo Pintado
Other common names: (Duchaillu’s) Yellow-spotted Tinkerbird/Barbet

Taxonomy: Barbatula Duchaillui Cassin, 1855, Moonda River, Gabon.
Genus related both to Pogoniulus and to Tricholaema; larger than former, similar in size to latter but lacks bill “teeth”, and vocally distinct from both genera. No close relatives. Birds from S Congo described as race gabriellae, but now considered indistinguishable; populations at higher elevations are larger, but insufficient difference to warrant any racial separation. Monotypic.

Distribution: Sierra Leone and Guinea E to Ghana; and SW Nigeria E to W Kenya, and S to Cabinda (N Angola), C Zaire, W Rwanda and NW Tanzania.