8. BAEBATULA. 39 



Megalaima duchaillui, Goffin, Mm. Pays-Bas, Buccones, p. 39 (1863) ; 



Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 13 (1868) ; id. H.and-1. B. ii. 



p. 175, no. 8464 (1870) ; Biittik. Notes Le.yden Mus. vii. p. 216 



(1885). 

 Xylobucco duchaillui, Marshall, Monoqr. Capit. p. 113, pi. 46 (1870) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 15 (1871) ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 606; 



Shelley ij- Buckley, Bus, 1872, p. 207 ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 55 ; 



Oustalet, Nonv. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. BuU.^.Q'i [ISIQ) ; Bocaye, Orn. 



Anyola, p. 540 (1881) ; Giylioli, Ibis, 1881, p. 200. 

 Megalteiua duchaillui, Reichen. J.f. O. 1875, p. 8. 

 Cladurus duchaillui, Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 17. 

 Pogonorhynchus duchaillui, Salcad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (2) i. p. 85 



(1884). 



Adult. General colour above glossy blue-black, spotted with yellow 

 on the back and scapulars ; the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts barred with yellow at the ends of the feathers ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, the median and lesser coverts tipped with yellow, the 

 greater coverts edged with yellow towards the end of the outer web ; 

 bastard-wing, primarj^-coverts, and quills black, edged with yellow 

 near the ends of the outer web, more broadly on the inner second- 

 aries ; tail-feathers black ; crown of head glossy blue-black, without 

 any yellow spots ; forehead crimson ; lores bare ; a broad yellow eye- 

 brow, extending from above the eye down the sides of the neck ; sides 

 of the face, ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and fore neck uniform glossy 

 blue-black ; remainder of under surface of bod)' yellow, mottled with 

 black bases to the feathers, which are really black, broadly tipped 

 with yellow: under wing-coverts white with a tinge of j'cllow ; quills 

 below dusky, yellowish white along the inner edge ; " bill black ; iris 

 brown" {Crossle7j). Total length 6'3 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3, 

 tail I'S, tarsus 0"75. 



Young. Differs from the adult in the entire forehead and crown 

 K,eing black, in the almost entire absence of blue gloss, and in the 

 base of the bill being pale. 



Hub. West Africa, from Liberia to the Gaboon. 



a-c. Ad. ; d-h. F.antee (Aubinn). Sharpe Coll. 



Juv. sk. 



/, k. Ad. sk. Denkera {H. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 



/. Imm.sk. Abouri, Aguapim, Feb. 22 {T. E. Shelley Coll. 



Buckley) . 



m. Ad. sk. Camaroon Mts., Feb. 4 {Crossley). Sharpe Coll. 



n. Ad. sk. (Taboou ( Walker). Sharpe Coll. 



o. Ad. sk. Moonda River, Gaboon (Z)«C7irti7ZM). Sharpe CoU. 



2. Barbatula pusilla. 



Le Barbion nude, Levaill. Barlms, p. 7-\, pi. 32 (1806). 



Bucco pusillus, Dumunt, Diet. Sci. Nat. iv. p. 50 (1806, e.r ZemtY/.). 



Bucco parvus (nee Gm.), Ciiv. Reyne An. p. 428 (1817). 



Bucco rubrifrons, Vieill. N. Diet. dHist. Nat. iv. p. 497 (1816). 



Capito rubrifrous, Vieill. Enc. Mith. p. 1423 (1823). 



Bucco barbatula, Temm. PL Col. iii. Bucco, spp. 18, 19 (1831). 



