38 _ CAPITONIDiE. 



8. BAEBATULA. „ 



Type. 



Barbatula, Less. Compl. Buff. ix. p. 292 (1837) B. erythronota. 



Xylobucco, Bp. Consp. i. p. 141 (1850) B. scolopace.a. 



Buccaiiodon, Terr, in Hartl.Orn. TV.-Afr. p. 171 (1857). B. duchaillui. 



Cladurus, Reichen. J.f. 0. 1877, p. 17 B. duchaillui. 



Lignobucco, Reichen. J.f. O. 1887, p. 3 B. scolopacea. 



Ranc/e. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Forehead red or yellow ; mantle black, mottled 



or streaked with yellow or white. 



a'. Throat black diuluiillui, p. 38. 



b'. No black on throat. 



a". Fure part of crown crimson. 

 a'". Rump sulphur-yellow. 



a*. Larger ; streaks on hind neck and 



mantle yellowish pusilla, p. 3D. 



b*. Smaller ; streaks on hind neck and 

 mantle white. 



«5. Breast pale green minuta, p. 40. 



6\ Breast sandy buff affinis, p. 41. 



b'". Rump orange uropygialis, p. 41. 



h" . Fore part of crown orange-yellow. 



C'"'. Smaller : under surface yellow, the 



throat like the breast chrysocoma, p. 42. 



d'". Larger: throat greenish yellow, con- 

 trasting with the sandy-brown chest . . extoni, p. 43. 



b. Forehead black like the rest of the crown and 



mantle. 



c'. Rump crimson erythronota, p. 43. 



d'. Rump yellow. 



c". Eyebrow and cheek-stripe white. 



e'" . Larger : rump orange ; wing-coverts 



and quills edged with sulphur-yellow . bilineata, p. 44. 

 f". Smaller : rump orange, as also the 



edges of the wing-coverts and quills . . chrysopyga, p. 45. 

 g'". Smaller: rump, as also the edges of the 

 wing-coverts and quills, sulphur- 

 yellow leucol(ema, p. 45. 



d''. Eyebrow and cheek-stripe yellow like the 



throat substdphurea, p. 46. 



c. Fnrehead dark brown like the rest of the upper 



parts, with yellow edges to the feathers scolopacea, p. 47. 



1. Barbatula duchaillui. 



Barbatula duchaillui, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1855, p. 324, 1859, 



p. 140 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 193. 

 Barbatula formosa, Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1865, p. 218, pi. 5. 

 Pogonias duchaillui, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 171 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 



1861, p. 263. 

 Buccanodon duchaillui, Verr. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 397 ; Bouvier, Cat. 



Oi.s. Marche Sfv. p. 29 (1875). 



