44 CAPITONID^. 



Adult male. Glossy blue-black ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, 

 the median series broadly tipped with yellow, forming a band ; 

 greater coverts and secondaries black, narrowly edged with yellow 

 on the outer web ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primaries 

 entirely black ; lower back with a large patch of scarlet which hides 

 the black upper tail-coverts ; tail-feathers black, narrowly fringed 

 with yellow ; head like the back ; sides of face and ear-coverts also 

 blue-black, with the following markings : above the eye a narrow 

 streak of yellow ; behind the eye another streak of the same colour, 

 skirting the ear-coverts ; a broad streak of yellowish white runs 

 from the base of the nostrils to below the eye ; below the ear- 

 coverts a streak of bright yellow along the cheeks followed by a very 

 distinct malar band of black ; under surface of the body dull 

 greenish yellow ; uuder wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish white; 

 quills dusky blackish below, yellowish buff along the inner webs : 

 " bill black ; legs grey ; iris black " (J. Buttikofer). Total length 

 4*5 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 2'45, tail 1'2, tarsus 0"6. 



Young. Only differs from the adults in being much duller in 

 colour, and in having the black of the upper parts washed with 

 yellow and the scarlet of the lower back much duller. 



Hah. West Africa, from Liberia to the Congo. 



9. Barbatula bilineata. (Plate III. fig. 2.) 



Megalrema bilineata, Snndev. CEfv. K. Vet.-AJcad. Stockk. 1850, 



p. 109. 

 Megalaima bilineata, Goffin, Mus. Pays-Bas, Buccones, p. 43 (1863) ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 234 (1867 ) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. 



p. 15 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p.' 176, no. 8472 (1870). 

 Barbatula bilineata, Marshall, Monogr. Capit. p. 125, pi. 50. fig. 2 



(1870) ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. 8. Afr. p. 176 (1884) ; W. Ayres, 



Ibis, 1887, p. 52. 



Adult female. Similar to B. leucolcema, but much more of a 

 greenish- black colour, and further distinguished by the lower back 

 being orange instead of sulphur- yellow : " bill black ; legs ash- 

 colour " ( W. Ayres), Total length 3'7 inches, culmen O-oo, wing 

 2-1, tail 1-1, tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. South-east Africa. 



a. 2 ^d- sk. Olifants River, N.E. Transvaal, J. H. Gurney, Esq. 



July27(r. ^i/res). [P.]. 



