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5. Melanobucco leucocephalus. 



Laimodon leucocephalus, DeJiUpjn, Reo. et Mag. de Zool. 18o3, 

 p. 291 ; Verr. P. Z. S. 1859, p. m^ ■ Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 81 

 (1864) ; Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino, iii. p. 281 (1868). 



Pogonorhynehus leucocephalus, Heuc/l. Ibis, 1861, p. 123, pi. 10. 

 fig. 2; Goffin, Mus. Pays-Bns, Buccones, p. 4 (1863); Gray, 

 List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 2 (1808); id. Hmid-l. B. ii. p. 172, 

 no. 8421 (1870); Heuql. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pp.754, civiii, pi. 27. 

 fig. 2 (1870); Marshal/, Man. Capit. p. 15, pi. 8 (1871) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Afr. B. p. 15 (1871) ; Peh. Sitz. zool.-hot. Wien, xxxi. p. 153 

 (1881); Hartl. Ahhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, Vi\i. p. 209 (1883) ; 

 Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvii. p. 432 (1884). 



Pogonias leucocephalus, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 112 

 (1881). 



Melanobucco leucocephalus, Shelleij, Ibis, 1889, p. 476. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, blacker on the centre 

 of the back, the mantle slightly streaked with white shaft-lines, the 

 scapuhirs and wing-coverts with more distinct and triangular white 

 centres to the feathers ; greater coverts white, or white with brown 

 bases ; primary-coverts and bastard-wing brown with white tips ; 

 quills dark brown, with pale-brown shafts, the inner secondaries 

 with white spots at their ends ; lower back and upper tail-coverts 

 white ; tail-feathers black ; crown of head, nape, throat, and chest 

 pure white ; breast and sides of the body blackish brown, streaked 

 with white centres to the feathers ; under tail-coverts white, as also 

 the under wing-coverts and quill-lining : '• bill and feet leaden black ; 

 bare eyelids violet lead-colour ; iris umber-brown " (Heaqlin). 

 Total length 7-2 inches, culmen 1, wing 3-5, tail 2-1, tarsus 0"9. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 7"3 

 inches, culmen 0'9, wing 3-45, tail 2, tarsus 0"9. 



Hab. North-eastern Africa, extending into Equatorial Africa. 



Sharpe CoU. 

 Slielley Coll. 



Emin Pasha [P.]. 

 F. Bohndoiff [C.j. 



6. Melanobucco albicauda. 



Pogonorhynchus leucocephalus. Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 239. 

 Pogonorhynchus albicauda, Shelleij, Ibis, 1881, p. 117; id. P. Z. S. 



1881, p. 592; Fischer, Zeitschr. qes. Orn. i. p. 370 (1884); id. 



J.f. 0. 1885, p. 125; Reichen. J.'f. O. 1887, p. 59. 

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



Adult (type of species). Similar to M. leucocephalus, but distin- 

 guished by the white tail, the centre feathers of which are blackish 

 brown at the baisc ; the feathers of the back and breast are not 



