8. BARBATULA. 45 



10. Barbatula chrysopyga. (Plate III. fig. 1.) 



Barbatula leucolaema {nee Verr.), Sharpe, Ihis, 18G9, p. 19.3. 

 Xylobucco subsulphurea {nee Fras.), Shelley Sf Buckley, Ihis, 1872 



p. 2o7 . 

 MegaL-enm subsulphurea {nee Fras.), Eiittik. Notes Leyden Mus. x. 



p. 94 (1888 J. 

 Barbatula chrysopyga, Shelley, IbL^, 1889, p. 477. 



Adult female. Similar to B. leucokmia, but differs in being 

 rather more greenish black above, and in having the rump and 

 edges of the wing-coverts and quills orange. It is therefore very 

 like B. hilineata, but the latter has the edges of the coverts and quills 

 sulphur-yellow. Total length 3-3 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-85, 

 tail 1-05, tarsus 1. 



Young. Coloured like the adult, but much more dusky, the upper 

 surface washed with olive, the eyebrow and cheek-stripe somewhat 

 tinged with yellow ; the bill pale horny ; the under surface greenish 

 yellow, the throat ashy white. 



Hab. West Africa, from Liberia to the Gold Coast. 



a-d Ad. ; e. Fantee {Aubinji). Shai-pe Coll. 



Juv. sk. '^ 



f g Ad. sk. Fantee {H. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Abouri, Aguapim, Feb. 22 {G. E. S.). SheUey Coll. 



t. 2 ad. sk. Abouri, Feb. 20 {T. Buckley). Shelley Coll. 



1 1 . Barbatula leucolaema. 



Barbatula leucolasma, /. ^- E. Yen: Reo. et May. Zool. 1851, p. 265. 

 Barbatula leucoL-ema, Strickl. Cuntr. Orn. 1851, p. 135 ; Bp. Crnisp. 



Vol Zyg. p. 12 (1854) ; Kartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 173(1857) ; Yerr. 



F.Z.S. 18o9, p. .398; Marshall, Mono(/r. Capit. p. 129, pi. 51. 



%. 2 (1871, fig. inacc.) ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 42. 

 Megalaima leucolaima, Goffin, Mus. Pays-Bas, Buccones, p. 4S 



(1863) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 15 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. 

 ■^\-^^-.'^' °°- ^^^^ (1870); Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus.Vn. 



p. 210 (1885), viii. p. 263 (1886). 

 Barbatula subsulphurea {nee Fras.), Sharpe S,- Bouvier, Bull. Sac. 



Zool France, m. p. 78 (1878) ; Socage, (hm. Angola, p. 539 (1881) : 



Nicholson, P.Z.S.\S7^, ^.\f<l. -f > i^ v i, 



Megalajma bilineata, Eeichen. J.f. 0. 1877, p. 17 {nee Sundev.). 

 i Barbatula leucolfema, Bohm, J.f. O. 1883, p. 167. 



Adult. General colour above glossy blue-black, including the 

 upper tail-coverts ; rump bright yellow ; lesser wing-coverts like 

 the back; median and greater coverts, quills, and tail-feathers 

 black, edged with bright yellow ; the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and primaries black, without any yellow margins ; crown of head 

 like the back ; a broad line of white extending from the nostrils 

 along the checks; feathers round the eye and ear-coverts black, 

 surmounted by a broad superciliary band of white, extending from' 

 above the eye to the sides of the nape ; a broad malar line of black ; 



