3. MELANOBUCCO. 23 



Pogonia8 saltii, Swains. B. W. Afr. p. 170 (1837) ; Up. Consp. Av. 



i. p. 145 (18G0) ; Ilartl. J.f. O. 1854, p. 1!)7; Up. Consp. Vol. 



Zi/ff.-p. ]-2 (1854); Hartl. Oni. W.-Afr. p. 170 (1857); Heuyl. 



J.f. O. \m-2, p. 36; Brehm, lieis. Habesch, p. 364 (18(33). 

 Laimodon brucii, li'upp. Si/st. Uebers. p. 95 (1845) ; Heugl. Syst. 



Uebers.^. 40 (1850). 

 Laimodou saltii, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 428 (1840) ; Verr. P. Z. S. 1859, 



p. 396; Iletiyl. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 196; Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 81 



(1804). 

 Pogonorhynclms sallii, Heugl. Ibis, 1801, p. 123. 

 Pogonorhynclius abyssinicus, Gojffin, Mus. Pays-Bas, Biiccoues, 



p. 5 (1863) ; Gray, List Capit. in Brit. Mus. p. 3 (1868) ; id. 



Rand-l. B. ii. p. 173, no. 8423 (1870) ; Blanf. Geol. ^ Zool. 



Abyss, p. 309 (1870) ; Marshall, Man. Capit. p. 17, pi. 9 (1870) ; 



Finsch, Tr. Z. <S'. vii. p. 281 (1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 15 



(1871) ; Antin. ^ Salvad. Viayg. Boyos, p. 42 (1873) ; Hartl. Ab- 



handl. nat. Verein. Bremen, vii. p. 112 (1881) ; Pelz. Sitz. zool.- 



bot. Ges. Wien, xxxi. p. 615 (1881) ; Salvad. Ann. 3Ius. Civ. Gen. 



(2) i. p. 83 (1884). 

 Pogonorbynchus babessinicus, Heuyl. Orn. N.O. Afr. pp. 755, clix 



(1871). 

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



Adult male. Glo.ssy blue-black ; wiug-coverts like the back, the 

 feathers broadly edged with white ; bastard- wing and primary- 

 coverts brown ; quills blackish, edged with bright yellow, becoming 

 brighter towards the ends ; tail-feathers black, narrowly fringed 

 w'ith yellow ; crown of head as far as tlie occiput, sides of face, 

 cheeks, throat, and fore neck brilliant scarlet; ear-coverts glossy 

 blue-black like the sides of the neck, but with a few scarlet tips ; 

 sides of fore neck and breast, as well as the whole of the under 

 surface of body from the chest downwards, glossy blue-black ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries, as well as the quill lining, white : " bill 

 blackish ; feet dusky ; iris red " {HcugUn). Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0-9, wing 3-45, tail 2'1, tarsus 0-7-J. 



Adult fcmide. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 6 inches, culmen 0"9, wing 3o, tail 1*9, tarsus O-So. 



Hah, Xorth-eastern Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Tweeddale Coll. 



b. Ad. .sk. Habab {Esler). Sharpe Coll. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Bogus-Land (Esler). Shelley Coll. 



e. 2 s.d. sk. Ansuba Valley, Aug. 5. W. T. Blauford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



/iff- <S 2 ^^- Gabena-Weldt Goufdlun, Aug. Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. {Ii'. Jesse). 



h. 2 ad. sk. ^Yaliko, July 23 ( If. Jesse). Sharpe Coll. 



t. 2 ^- sk. Ambucarra, Shoa, Aug. 24 (O. Shelley Coll. 



Antinori). 



k. c? ad. sk. Adoi-Dembi, Shoa, May (O. Anti- Shelley Coll. 



nori). 



I. Ad. sk. Shoa {Sir TF. Harris). India 31useuai. 



m. Ad. !sk. \N'hite Nile. Tweeddale Coll. 



