100 CAPITONID^. 



h" . Back generally uniform black, with- 

 out white edges to the feathers. All 

 the feathers of the praepectoral band 



tipped with white suahelicus, p. 102. 



h'. Nape and hind neck yellow spotted with 

 black ; forehead and crown black, 

 c". Under tail-coverts yellow without any 



red shade versicolor, p. 102. 



d". Under tail-coverts red. 



a'". Eyebrow washed with crimson ; ear- 

 coverts crimson. 

 «^. Larger; pale spots on upper 

 plumage more rounded and 



white erythrocephalus, p. 102. 



6*. Smaller ; pale spots on upper 

 plumage subtriangular, and 



tinted with rosy shelleyi, p. 103. 



b'". Ej^ebrow and sides of face pale 



yellow margaritatus, p. 10.3. 



c'. Nape and hind neck brown, with pale 

 yellow spots and bars. 



«"• Crown uniform black boehmi, p. 104. 



/". Crown scaly, the feathers reddish or 



yellow, with black bases and edges . . arnaudi, p. 105. 

 I. Tail and wings black, without any white 

 spots or bars. 

 d'. Sides of breast black, boldly mottled 

 with yellow ; bare skin round eye 



yellow purpui-atua, p. 106. 



e' . Sides of breast uniform yellow like the 



middle; bare skin round eye dark .... goffini, p. lOG. 



1. Trachyphonus cafer. 



Le Promepic, LevaiU. Promerops, p. 77, pi. 32 (1800). 



Picus cafer, Vieill. N. Diet. cTHist. Nat. xxiv. p. 102 (1818). 



Trachvphonus vaillantii, Ranzani, Elem. di Zool., Ucc. torn. iii. pt. 2, 

 p. 159 (1821). 



Cucupicus cafer, Lesx. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 116 (1828). 



Micropogon sulphuratus, Lafr. Mag. de Zool. pi. GO (1836). 



Polysticte quopopa. Smith, Jlepoii <V. Afr. E.rp., App. p. 40 (1836). 



Trachyphonus cafer, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 09 (1841); Bp. Consp. 

 Av. i. p. 142 (1850) ; id. Consp. Vol. Zyq. p. 12 (1854); Verr. 

 P. Z. S. 1859, p. 399 ; Newton, Ibis, 1868, p. 268 ; Gray, List 

 Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 17 (1808) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 177, no. 8481 

 (1870); Ay res. Ibis, 1870, p. 260; Marshall, Monogr. Capit. 

 p. 139, pi. 66 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 10 (1871) ; Buckley, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 368; Barratt, Ibis, 18:f6, p. 200; Ayres, Uds, 1879, 

 p. 295; Bocaqe, Orn. Anqola, p. 109 (1881); Sharpe in Gates' 

 Matabele-Land, App. 13, p. 300 (1881) ; Holub S,- Von Pelz. Beitr. 

 Orti. Sildafr. p. 162 (1882) ; Shellei/, Ibis, 1882, p. 249 ; Sharpe, 

 ed. LayarcVs B. S. Afr. pp. 178, 811 (1884); Hartl. Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 107 ; Sauza, Jorn. Lisb. 1887, p. 91 ; Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. 

 X. p. 224 (1887). 



