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CAPITONID^. 



Bucco rufifrons, Stephens, op. cit. ix.p. 31 (1815). 



Pogonias stephensii, Leach, Zool. Misc. ii. p. 145, pi. 116 (1815). 



Pogonias niger, Te^nm. PI. Col. iii. Pogonias, sp. 6 (1823) ; Wagl. 



Syst. Av. Pogonias, sp. 6 (1827) ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 145 



(1850). 

 Pogonias unidentatus, Licht. Verz. Vog. Kaffernl. p. 17 (1842). 

 Laimodon leucomelas, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. '429 (1846) ; Layard, B. 



S. Afr. p. 232 (1867). 

 Laimodon unidentatus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 429 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. 



Vol. Zyg. p. 12 (1854) ; Verr. P. Z. S. 1859, p. .395 ; Layard, B. S. 



Afr. p. 233 (1867). 

 Pogonias leucomelas, Strickl. ^- Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 155 ; Mont. 



P. Z. S. 1865, p. 95. 

 Lajmodon niger, Grill, Zool. Anteckn. pp. 11, 44 (1859). 

 Pogonorhynchus leucomelas, Goffin, Mus. Pays-Bas, Buccones, p. 7 



(1863) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mm. p. 3 (1868) ; id. Iland-l. B. 



ii. p. 173, no. 8425 (1870) ; Marshall, Monogr. Capit. p. 23, pi. 12 



(1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. i;^. 15 (1871); Gurney in Anderss. 



B. Dam.-Ld. p. 217 (1872) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 367 ; Ban-att, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 200; Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 342, 1879, p. 296 ; Bocage, 



Orn. Angola, p. 107 (1881) ; Sharpe in Oates' Matabele-Land, 



App. B, p. 305 (1881); id. ed. Layard' s B. S. Afr. pp. 173, 811 



(1884) ; Souza, Jorn. Lisb. 1886, p. 158. 

 Pogonorhynchus niger, Holub * von Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 161 



(1882). 

 Tricholc-ema leucomelan, Shelley, Ibis, 1889, p. 476. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy blue-black, the feathers 

 longitudinally tipped with bright yellow ; rump-feathers very long 

 and entirely yellow ; upper tail-coverts blue-black, tipped with 

 yellow ; scapulars blue-black, externally white ; lesser wing-coverts 

 black, spotted with white ; median series black, with longitudinal 

 tips of bright j'ellow : greater series margined near the ends of the 

 outer web with yellow or white, the innermost tipped and edged 

 with white along the inner web also ; quills and tail-feathers black, 

 broadly edged with sulphur-yellow, becoming white towards the 

 ends ; crown of head uniform blue-black, with a broad frontal band 

 of crimson ; the base of the forehead, cheeks, lores, eyelids, and ear- 

 coverts black, extending to the sides of the neck : a broad eyebrow of 

 pale sulphur-yellow, passing into white along the sides of the hinder 

 neck ; feathers below the eye and cheek, sides of the neck and under 

 surface of body white ; throat and fore neck glossy blue-black ; sides 

 of the body, thighs, and under tail-coverts slightly mottled with 

 blackish bases to the feathers ; under wing-coverts and quill-lining 

 white : " bill dark brownish horn-colour ; feet and toes slaty brown ; 

 iris umber-brown " (Andersson). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-8, 

 wing 3-3, tail 2-05, tarsus 0*8. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 5-7 

 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-85. 



Young. Much duller in colour than the adult, and differs also in 

 having longitudinal black spots on the sides of the body. 



flab. Southern Africa, to the Matabele Country on the east and 

 to Benguela on the west. 



