40 CAPITONID^. 



Bucco chrysoptera, Swai7is. An. in Menag. p. 322 (1837). 



Barbatula parvus (nee Gm.), Hartl. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1842, p. 337. 



Megalaima barbatula, Gray, Gm. B. ii. p. 430 (1846) ; Layard, B. 

 S. Afr. p. 2.34 (1867). 



Barbatula pusilla, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 144 (1850) ; id. Consp. 

 Vol Zyg. p. 12 (1854) ; Verr. P. Z. S. IboO, p. 399 (pt.) ; Marshall, 

 Monogr. C'apit. p. 117, pi. 48 (1871) ; 8harpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 16 

 (pt.) (1871) ; id. ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. p. 175 (1884). 



Barbatula minuta, Gurney, Ibis, 1864, p. 353. 



Megalaima pusilla, Guffin, Mus. Pays-Bas, Buccones, p. 40 (pt.) 

 (1863) ; Gray, List (Japit. Brit. Mus. p. 14 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. 

 ii. p. 176, no. 8466 (1870). 



Megalsema barbatula, Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 372. 



Adult male. Easily recognizable by its scarlet frontal patch and 

 sulphur-yellow rump ; lesser wing-coverts entirely black ; the stripes 

 on the back white, washed with greenish yellow ; throat and under 

 surface of body pale greenish yellow : " bill black ; feet greenish 

 ash; iris very dark brown" {T. Ayres). Total length 4-6 inches, 

 culmen 0*5, wing 2-4, tail 1-35, tarsus 0-6. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 4-3 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-35, tail 1-35, tarsus 0'65, 



Hab. Confined to South Africa. 



a,b. dad.; c,d. Eland's Post, S.E.Africa (7'. C. Sliarpe Coll. 



5 ad. sk. Atmore). 



c-^. Ad.sk. Durban, Natal ((?o;%e). Shelley Coll. 



Ji. 2 ad. sk. Pinetown, Natal, May 12 {T. L. Shelley Coll. 



Ayres). 



i. $ ad. sk. Pinetown, Feb. Q {T. L. Ayres). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Barbatula minuta. 



Barbatula minuta, Bp. Co7isp. Av. i. p. 144 (1850) ; id. Consp. Vol. 



Zyg. p. 12 (1854) ; Rartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 173 (1857). 

 Barbatula pusilla {nee Burmnf), Heugl. Ibis, 1861, p. 124; Blanf. 



Geol. Sf Zool. Abyss, p. 311 (1870) ; iSharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 16 (pt.) 



(1871) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (2) i. p. 87 (1884). 

 Megalaima pusilla, Gi>ffin, Mus. Pays-Bas, Buccones, p. 40 (pt.) 



(1863). 

 Megalaima pusilla, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pp. 762, clx (1870); 



Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 282 (1870). 



Adult nicde. Similar to B. pusilla, and having a scarlet frontal 

 patch, but smaller, and distinguished by the white stripes on the 

 back, without any yellow tinge : " bill black ; feet leaden blackish ; 

 iris dusky " (Htiujlin). Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0-5, Aving 

 2-15, tail \ -25, tarsus 0-45. 



Adidt female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 4 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-25, tail 1-25, tarsus 0-5. 



Hah. North-east Africa, across to Senegambia. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Undid Wells, Abyssinia, April. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



