8. BAKBATULA. -- " -- 43 



a. (S ad. sk. Casamanse, Senegambia. Sharpe Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. River Volta (H. T. Ussher). Sharpe Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Sharpe Coll. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Kibiro, Equatorial Africa, Oct. 9. Emin Pasha [P.]. 



7. Barbatula extoni. 



Megalaima chrysocoma {nee Temm.), Gray, List Cupit. Brit. Mus. 



p. 14 (1868). 

 Barbatula extoni, Layard, Ibis, 1871, p. 22(} ; Sharjie, Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 10 (1871) ; Ay res, Ibis, 1879, p. 29(J ; Ilolub i^ Pelz. Beitr. Orn. 



Sddafr. p. 162 '(1882) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 248; Ay res, Ibis, 



1884, p. 226 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 176, 811 (1884). 

 Barbatula chrysocoma, Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 109 (1881). 



Adidt male (type of species). Similar to B. chrysocoma, and with 

 the same golden-yellow patch on the forehead, but larger, and dis- 

 tinguished by the dingy olive-yellow under surface, against which 

 the sulphur-yellow throat stands out conspicuously : " bill black ; 

 tarsi and feet dusky brown ; iris dusky umber" {T. Ay res). Total 

 length 4-6 inches, culmen 0'5, wing 2-5, tail 1'35, tarsus 0'6. 



Adult femcde. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 4 

 inches, culmen O'Oo, wing 2'4, tail 1'3, tarsus 0'6. 



Hab. South-eastern Africa. 



a cJ ad. sk. Transvaal ( Wahlberg). Sharpe Coll. 



b. (^ ad. sk. Magaliesberg Mts., Transvaal, Sharpe Coll. 



Dec. m{T.Ayres). 



c. c? ad. ; d, e. Rustenberg, Oct., Nov. [T. Shelley CoU. 

 2 ad. sk. Ay res). 



f. iS ad. sk. Kanye, Matabele Country Sharpe Coll. (Type 



{Zfr. Fj.vton). of species.) 



//. (5 ad. sk. Kauye (/. S. Jameson). Shelley Coll. 



/;. J ad. sk. Caconda, Beuguela, Nov. {J. Shelley Coll. 



Anchieta). 



8. Barbatula erythronota. 



Le Barbion a dos rouge, Levaill. Barbus, p. 1.32, pi. 57 (1806). 

 Bucco erythronotus, Cuv. Reyne An. p. 428 (1817, ex Levaill.) ; 



Tenun. PI. Col. iii. Bucco, sp. 20 (182:i). 

 Barbatula erythronota, Hartl. Rev. et May. Zool. 1842, p. 3.37. 

 Megalaima atrotiava. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p.'430 (1846) ; Gnffin, 3Ius. 



Pays-Bas, Buccones, p. 42 (1863) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. 



p. 14 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. ii. p. 176, no. 8471 (1870). 

 Barbatula atroflava, Bp. Consp. Ac. i. p. 145 (1850); Sfrickl. Contr. 



Orn. 1861, p. 125; Verr. Rev. et May. Zool. 1851, p. 262; Hartl. 



J. f. O. 1854, p. 196; Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyy. p. 12 (1854); Hartl. 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 172 (1857); Verr. P. Z.S. 1859, p. 398; Hurtl. 



J. f. 0. 1861, p. 262 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 485; id. Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 16 (1871) ; Marshall, Monogr. Capit. p. 1,36, pi. 50. fig. 1 (1871) ; 



Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 55 ; Sharpe 4" Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 



France, i. p. 311 (1876) ; Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. Bull. 



p. 127 (1879). 

 Megalsema atroflava, Biittik. Xoles Leyd. Mus. x. p. 95 (1888). 



