42 CAPITONID^. 



6. Barbatula chrysocoma. 



Bucco chrvsocoma, Tetmn. PL Col. iii. pi. 536. fig. 2 (1823) ; Hartl. 



Rev. et 'Mag. Zool. 1842, p. 337. 

 Bucco parvus, var.. Less. Traite, p. 16-5 (1831). 

 Barbatula chrvsocoma, Rupp. 8ijst. Uebers. p. 95 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. 



Av.i.^. 145 (1850); Hartl. J.f. O. 1854, p. 19(5; Hetigl. Si/st. 



Uebers. p. 47 (1856) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 173 (1857) ; Verr. 



T.Z.8. 1859, p. 398; Heugl. Ibis, 1861, p. 124; Antin. Cat. 



descr. Ucc. p. 82 (1864) ; Skarpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 4S5 ; Marshall, 



Monoffr. Capit. p. 119, pi. 49 (1871) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 16 



(1871) ; Ussher. Ibis, 1874, p. 55 ; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Gesellsoh. Wim, 



xxxi. p. 153 (1881); Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, viii. 



p. 209 (1883) ; Shelley, F. Z. S. 1888, p. 42. 

 Megalaima chrysocoma. Gray, Geti. B. ii. p. 430 (1846) ; Goffin, 



Mus. I'ays-Bas, Buccones, p. 41 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 176, no. 8467 (1870). 

 Bucco aurifrons, Heuyl. J.f. O. 1867, p. 300 (e.r Pr. von Wiirt. 



MS8.). 

 Megalsema chrysocoma, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pp. 760, clix 



(1871). 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish white, streaked with 

 dusky black, the feathers being white, edged with black, the black 

 ■ edging being especially broad and distinct on the hind neck ; lower 

 back and upper tail-coverts sulphur-yellow ; lesser and median 

 wing-coverts golden yellow, or black with golden-yellow edges ; 

 greater coverts blackish, with white or yellowish-white margins ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish ; quills blackish, edged 

 with golden yellow, the inner secondaries rather broadly so with 

 white ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with sulphur-yellow ; crown of 

 head like the hind neck and similarly striped ; a large frontal 

 patch of golden yellow ; a narrow line across the base of the forehead 

 joined to another line which skirts the sides of the crown, black ; 

 lores, eyebrow, and a streak under the eye white, followed by a 

 black band along the ear-coverts ; cheeks white, separated from the 

 throat by a broad black stripe ; throat and under surface of body 

 pale yellow, inclining to sulphur-yellow on the under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries, as well as the quill-lining, white: 

 "bill blackish ; feet dusky leaden colour; iris dusky" (Hevglin). 

 Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-1, tail 1-12, tarsus 0-5. 



Advlt female (Kibiro : Emin Pasha). Similar to the male in 

 plumage. Total length 4'7 inches, culmen 0"5, wing 2*35, tail 1"25, 

 tarsus 0'55. 



Not only is this specimen from Kibiro larger than those from 

 West Africa, but it appears to be more sulphur-yellow underneath, 

 and to have the upper tail-coverts black, edged with yellow, whereas 

 in true B. chrysocoma they are yellow like the rump. I do not like, 

 however, to separate the two birds without examining a larger 

 series. 



Hah. West Africa, from Senegambia to the Gold Coast, and North- 

 east Africa to the Equatorial Region. 



