22 CAriTONID^. 



centred with white, but only narrowly edged with whitish. Total 

 length 7-5 inches, culmen 1, wing 3-7, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-95. 

 Hah. Eastern Africa. 



a. Ad, sk. Ugogo {Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



7. Melanohucco senex. 



Pogonorbynchus leucocephalus (ncc Hewjl.), Cab. J. f. O. 1878, 



p. 239. 

 Pogonorbynchus senex, ReicJien. J.f. O. 1887, p. 59. 

 Melanobucco senex, Shelley, Ibis, 1889, p. 47G. 



Week and upper part of the back as well as the wings blackish 

 brown ; all the rest of the plumage — to wit, the head, entire under 

 surface of body, scapulars, riimp, and tail — white ; lower back 

 streaked with black on a white ground. Both the white shoulder- 

 bands are joined on the lower back and border the triangular 

 blackish-brown patch on the neck and upper back. Some of the 

 greater coverts show traces of white spots at the end. Iris brown ; 

 bill and feet black. Wing 3-7 inches, tarsus 0-9. (JReichenoiv.) 



Hah. Ukamba, East Africa. 



8. Melanobucco leucogaster. 



Pogonorhynchiis leucogaster, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. pt. xxi. p. 63 



(1877); id. Orn. Avgokt, p. 539 (1881). 

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



Adult. Similar to M. leucocephahis, but differing in the white 

 abdomen and under wing-coverts, and the back and greater wing- 

 coverts bei]]g dusky brown, but unspotted. {Bocufje.) 



Hah. Quillengues, in Mossamedes. 



9. Melanobucco abyssinicus. 



Le Guifso Balito, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 471 (1775). 



Three-toed Grosbeak, Lat/i. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 159 (1783). 



Loxia tridactyla, Gm. Syst. Nat. p. 8(j6 (1788) ; lath. Ind. Orn. i. 



p. .397 (1790). 

 Pbytotoma tridactyla, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 3G6 (1800). 

 Phytotoma abyssinica, Lath. Ind. Orn. Sitppl. i. p. xlix (1801). 

 Abyssinian Plant-cutter, Lath. Ge7i..Sm. SuppLii. p. 213, pi. cxxxiii. 



(1802). 

 Bucco saltii, Stanley in Salfs Voyage to Abyssinia, App. iv. p. 64 



(1814). 

 Hyreus abyssinicus, Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. ix. p. 338, pi. 53 



(1815). 

 Pogonias rubrifrons (nee VieilL), Swains. Zool. III. ii. pi. 68 (1821) ; 



Des Murs in Lefebvre's Voy. Abyss, p. 128 (1845). 

 Pogonias ha?matops, Wagl. Syst. Av. Pogonias, sp. 4, p. 165 (1827). 

 Pogonias brucii, Miipp. Neue Wirb., Voq. p. 50, pi. 20. fig. 1 (1835) ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 50. 



