26 CAPITONID^. 



12. Melanobucco vieilloti. 



Le Bartu Euticon, Levaill. Barbus, iii. Suppl. p. 43, fig. D (1807). 

 Pogonias vieilloti, Leach, Zool. Misc. ii. pi. 97 (1815) ; Steph. in 



Shmv's Gen. Zool. ix. p. 3 (1815) ; Hartl. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 131 ; 



Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 145 (1850) ; Hard. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 170 (1857). 

 Bucco fuscesceos, Vieill. N. Diet. (V Hist. Nat. iii. p. 241 (181G) ; id. 



Enc. Meth. ii. p. 1421 (1823). 

 Pogonias rubescens, Te7nm. PI. Col. iii. Pogonias, sp. 5 (1823) ; 



Wagl. Syst. Av., Pogonias, 5 (1827). 

 Pogonias senegalensis, Licht. Verz. Dmbl. p. 9 (1823) ; Swains. B. 



W. Afr. ii. p. 168 (1837). 

 Pogonias rubicon, Cut\ Reijne Anim. p. 457 (1829). 

 Bucco personatus, Less. Traite, p. 160 (1831). 

 Laimodou vieilloti, liiq)p. Syst. Uebers. p. 95 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



ii. p. 429 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 12 (1854) ; Heuyl. Syst. 



?7e6e/-s. p. 46 (1856); Verr.F.Z.S. 1859, p. 396; Antin. Cat. 



descr. Ucc. p. 81 (1864). 

 Pogonorhynchus vieilloti, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 219 ; Heugl. 



Ibis, 1861, p. 123 ; id. J. f. O. 1862, p. 36 ; Goffin, Mas. Pays- 



Bas, Buccones, p. 6 (1863) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 4 



(1868) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 193 ; Gray, Hund-l. B. ii. p. 173, 



no. 8427 (1870); Marshall, Monogr. Capit. p. 21, pi. 11 (1870); 



Antin. ^ Salvad. Viagg. Bogos, p. 42 (1873) ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, 



p. 54 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 559. 

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



Adult. General colour above dark brown, the feathers longitudi- 

 nally tipped with sulphur-yellow, before which is a subterminal 

 black shade ; rump entirely sulphur-yellow ; scapulars and wing- 

 coverts brown, with whitish shaft-lines ; the median series edged 

 with white, the greater coverts with pale brown ; quills blackish 

 brown, edged with sulphur-yellow ; upper tail-coverts and tail- 

 feathers daik brown, edged with yellow; forehead scarlet; the hind 

 neck and sides of the neck blackish, with yellowish-white tips and 

 spots ; lores white ; sides of the face, ear-coverts, and cheeks scarlet ; 

 throat white, with scarlet ends to the feathers, some of those on the 

 sides of the breast edged with black, producing a mottled appear- 

 ance ; remainder of under surface of body pale sulphur-yellow, the 

 centre of the body scarlet ; the flanks dusky blackish, with yellow 

 tips to the feathers ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and quill-hning 

 white. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3-2, tail 1-7.5, 

 tarsus 0'8. 



Young. Much more dingily coloured than the adult, and with less 

 scarlet on the head and throat, these parts being dusky brown, with 

 a few scarlet tips to the feathers. 



Hab. West Africa, from Senegambia to the Niger, and across the 

 continent to Eastern Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Senegal {d'Einville). Riocour Coll. 



(Type of B. fiiscescens.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. Senegal. Sharpe Coll. 



d. Juv. sk. Dakar, Senegal. L. Laglaize [C.]. 



e,f. Ad. sk. Bathurst, River Gambia {Sir A. Shelley Coll. 

 Moloney). 



