3. MELANOBUCCO. 19 



</,tf. Ad. etj uv.sk. Funtee {H. T. Ussher). Sharpe Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Gold Coast (A. Swanzy). Shelley Coll. 



g. Ad.sk. Abrobonko, Fantee, Jan. {G. Shelley Coll. 



E. S.). 



h, I. Ad. sk. Accin. Sharpe Coll. 



2. Melanobucco aequatorialis. (Plate I.) 



? Pogonorhynphiis dubius, Sharpe 4' Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 i. p. 311 (l&i70) ; Bocayc, Orn. Anyola, App. p. 538 (1881). 



Pogroniaa bidentatus {neo Shaw), Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, 

 vii. p. 112 (1881). 



Poufonorbvnchus bidentatus (Tiec Shaw), Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, 

 Zool. xvii. p. 4.32 (1884) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 41. 



Melanobucco aequatorialis, Shelley, Ibis, 1889, p. 476. 



Adult male. Similar to M. bidentatits, but easily distinguislied by 

 the rosy instead of scarlet band on the wing : " bill horny white ; 

 naked skiu round the eye sulphur-yellow, tinged with reddish ; iris 

 umber-brown " (£"/?!(«). Total length 9 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 

 4*1, tail 2"9o, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 9'5 inches, 

 culmen 1"2, wing 4, tail 2-95, tarsus 1. 



Hab. Equatorial Africa, probably extending through the Congo 

 region. 



a,b. (^ 2 f^d. sk. Hparo, Equatorial Africa, Emin Pasha [P.]. 



Feb. 16. 

 c. Ad.sk. Semmio, Niam-Niara Conn- F. BohndorfF[C.] 



try, Jan. 



3. Melanobucco melanopterus. 



Pogonias (Laimodon) melanopterus, Peters, Bericht Akad. Berlin, 



1854, p. 134. 

 Laimodon albiventris, Verr. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 393, 395, pi. 157. 

 Pogonorbynchus melanopterus, Go^ri, Miis. Pays-Bas, Buccones, p. 6, 



note (1863) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. ?> (1868) ; Cab. in Von 



der Liechen, Jieis. iii. p. 39 (1869) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 173, 



no. 8428 (1870) ; Finsch ^- Hartl. Tlig. Ostafr. p. 504 (1870) ; 



Marshall, Mnn. Capit. p. 13, pi. 7 (1871) ; Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878, 



p. 359 ; Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 239: Fischer i>,- Reichen. t. c. p. 253; 



Fischer, t. c. p. 292 ; id. J.f. O. 1879, p. 291 ; Fischer ^- Reichen. t. c. 



p. 342 ; Shellei/, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 592 ; Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 



i. p. 370 (1884); id. J.f. O. 1885, p. 125; Shelley, Ibis, 1888, 



p. 291 ; id. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 356. 

 Melanobucco melanopterus, Shelley, Ibis, 1889, p. 476. 



Adult. General colour above brown, with white shaft-lines ; the 

 mantle rather blacker and less distinctly streaked : rump and upper 

 tail-coverts blackish, with white shaft-lines ; wing-coverts and 

 quills brown, externally glossy black, with white shaft-streaks, the 

 shafts of the quills light brown ; tail-feathers black : forehead 

 scarlet, the hinder crown and nape blue-black, the feathers tipped 

 ■with scarlet ; sides of face, cheeks, ear-coverts, and throat bright 

 scarlet ; fore neck and breast brown, with white shaft- streaks, some 



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