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Halocarbenes are important reactive intermediates in numerous chemical processes, including organometallic and atmospheric reactions. However, halocarbenes are difficult to observe experimentally because of their transitory nature and weak transitions. In addition, their spectra are complicated by vibronic coupling between the low-lying singlet states, singlet-triplet perturbations due to the small energy separation between the lowest lying singlet and triplet states, and the large amplitude motion of the bending vibration. Our work has centered on studying these molecules using transient frequency modulation absorption spectroscopy. We recently utilized this technique to obtain rotationally resolved spectra of the HCBr $A1A\prime \prime (0,1,0)-X1A\prime (0,0,0)$ rovibronic transition between $11930cm-1$ to $12030cm-1$. Bromomethylene radicals were obtained by 193nm laser photolysis of bromoform in a slow flow system. Utilizing the information gained from this experiment and previous $work,m$ we will discuss the structure of the low lying singlet states of HCBr, including the effect of the large amplitude bending vibration and perturbations from possibly nearby triplet levels. Acknowledgments: The experimental work was carried out at Brookhaven National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC0276CH00016 with the U.S. Department of Energy and support by its Division of Chemical Sciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.