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10. Melanobucco torquatus. 



Le Barbu a plastron noir, Levaill. Barbus, p. 65, pi. 28 (1806). 



Bucco torquatus, Bumont, Diet. Sc. Nut. iv. p. 65, pi. 28 (1806), 

 ex Levaill. 



Bucco nigrithorax, Cuv. Regne An. p. 428 (1817). 



Pogonias personatus, Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. 201 ( 182.3) ; Waffl. Syst. 

 Av. Pogonias, sp. 3 (1827) ; Cuv. Regne An. p. 458 (1829) ; Less. 

 Traite, p. 160 (1831). 



Pogonias nigrithorax, Cuv. Regne An. p. 458 (1829) ; Bp. Consp. Av. 

 i. p. 14-j (18.50). 



Laimodon nigrithorax, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 428 (1846) ; Bp. Consp . 

 Vol. Zyg. p. 12 (1854) ; Verr. P. Z. S. 1859, p. -325 ; Gurnei/, Ibis, 

 1862, p. 32 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 233 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1871, 

 p. 226. 



Pogonorhynchus torquatus, Goffin, Mus. Pays-Bns, Buccones, p. 4 

 (1863) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 2 (1868, pt.) ; id. Iland-l. 

 B. ii. p. 172, no. 8422 (1870) ; Marshall, Mon. Capit. p. 19, pi. 10 

 (1871); Buckleu, Ibis, 1874, p. .367 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 82 ; 

 Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 200 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 296 ; Bocage, 

 Orn. Am/ola, p. ]06 (1881) ; Iloliih Si- von Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siid- 

 afr. p. 161 (1882); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 248; Butler, Feilden, S( 

 Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 208 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 172, 

 811 (1884) ; Souza, Jorn. Lish. 1886, p. 158. 

 Pogonorliynclius nigrithorax. Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 328. 

 Laimodou leucomelas, Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 261. 

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



Adtdt male. General colour above brown, finely and almost im- 

 perceptibly verraiculated witb wavy blackish lines, the lesser and 

 median wing- coverts like the back ; lower back and upper tail- 

 coverts washed with snlphur-yellow ; greater wing-coverts, bastard 

 wing, and primary-coverts uniform brown ; quills and tail-feathers 

 dark brown, edged externally with bright yellow, whiter on the 

 primaries ; crown of the head, sides of the face, cheeks, throat, and 

 fore neck vermilion ; the nape, hind neck, sides of neck, and upper 

 mantle black, as well as a broad collar extending from the sides of 

 the fore neck across the breast ; remainder of the under surface of 

 the body pale sulphur-yellow, more or less mottled, especially on the 

 flanks, with dull ashy vermiculations ; under wing-coverts and quill- 

 lining white : " bill black ; legs slaty brown ; iris reddish brown " 

 (G. E. S.). Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 1, wing 3-5, tail 2-2, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 6-5 

 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3-5, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-9. 



Young. Much duller in colour than the adult, the entire head 

 being dingy purplish black, as also the throat and chest, with a little 

 scarlet on the throat and more on the sides of the face ; the upper 

 surface of the body much washed with yellow ; remainder of under 

 surface pale yellow, almost white in some specimens ; bill brown. 



Hab. South Africa. 



a. Juv. sk. South Africa. Sharpe Coll. 



b,c. 6 2 ad. ; Eland's Post, July (J. C. At- Sharpe Coll. 

 rf. cJ juv, sk.. more). 



