20 CAPITONID^. 



of the feathers hlackish ; remainder of under surface of body white, 

 with a patch of blackish or brown feathers on the flanks, streaked 

 as usual with white shaft-lines ; under wing- and tail-coverts white, 

 as also the quill-lining : " bill clear horny bluish grey ; feet dark 

 leaden grey : iris brown " (G. A. Fischer). Total length 7'4 inches, 

 culmen 1, wing tV8, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-9. 



Young. Browner than the adult and less distinctly streaked both 

 on the back and breast ; the red on the forehead and sides of face 

 and throat of a paler scarlet, the crown black with spots of pale 

 scarlet. 



Hah. Confined to Eastern Africa. 



a Ad sk. Lanui, E. Africa {Sir J. Shelley Coll. 



Kirk). 



6, e. Ad. etjuv.sk. Usambara Hills (Z'eVA). Shelley Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Pangani River (Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Ugogo (Kirk). Shelley Coll. 

 /. Ad. sk. Rovuma River (J. Thorn- Shelley Coll. 



son). 

 ■ g. Juv. sk. Zanzibar. Sir Bartle Frere [P.]. 



h S ad. sk, Taveta, June. H. C. V. Hunter, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 i. Ad. .sk. Kilimanjaro. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



4. Melanobucco levaillanti. 



Le Barbican a ventre rose, Leraill. Bnrhus, p. 85, pi. A (1806). 

 Bucco levaillautii, Vieill. N. Diet, d' Hist Nat. iii. p. 243 (1816). 

 Pogonias levaillantii, Leach, Zool. Misc. ii. p. 146, pi. cxvii. (1815). 

 Pogonias minor, Cuv. Regne An. i. p. 428, note (1817). 

 Pogonorhynchus eogaster, Cah. J. f. O. 1876, p. 92, pi. ii. fig. 1 ; 



Reicheii. J. f. O. 1877, p. 18 ; Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. 



p. 229, pi. VI. fig. 2 (1876)._ 

 Pogonorhynchus bidentatus, juv., i?oca^e, Orn. Ayiyola, p. 105 (1881). 

 Pogonorhynchus levaillantii, Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ii. 



p. 77 (1877) ; Bocar/e, Orn. Angola, App. p. 538 (1881). 

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



Adult male. General colour above blackish chocolate, becoming 

 deeper black towards the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts 

 and quills chocolate-brown, with glossy black edges ; tail-feathers 

 black ; forehead and sinciput scarlet: hinder crown and nape, sides 

 of the face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and sides of neck ashy brown ; 

 throat and under surface of body white, with a tinge of yellow on 

 the sides of the body ; the lower abdomen pale vermilion ; on each 

 side of the vent a large patch of blue-black feathers ; under wing- 

 and tail-feathers white ; quills brown below, ashy white along the 

 inner web : " bill clear horny brown or flesh-colour : feet rosy or 

 brownish rosy ; iris orange " (FaR-enstein). Total length 6-8 inches, 

 culmen 0'85, wing ^-6, tail 28, tarsus 0-9. 



Hab. Congo region in Western Africa. 



a. S ad. sk. Landana, Congo (Z. Petit). - Shelley Coll. 



