THE IBIS. 



FIFTH SESIES. 



No. XIV, APRIL 1886. 



XIV. — On a new Species of Bai'bet of the Genus 

 Trachyphonus. By Dr. G. Hartlaub. 



(Plate V.) 



When I read the description of Trachyphonus erythro- 

 cephalus in Capt. Shelley^s paper on the Birds of Somali- 

 land (Ibis, 1885, p. 394), I came to the conclusion that 

 the Somali bird did not belong to that species. Capt. Shelley 

 ha^-ing kindly lent me one of the specimens, I have been 

 able to compare it with the type of Tr. erythrocephalus in 

 the Berlin Museum ; and finding my suspicions justified, I 

 now propose to describe the Somali bird as 



Trachyphonus shelleyi, nov. sp. (Plate V.) 



Pileo subcristato nitide nigro, nitore nonnullo chalybeo, 

 plumulis ex aurantiaco miniatis, macula minuta nigra 

 terminatis, postice circumdato ; gutture et capitis late- 

 ribus necnon superciliis fla\as ; regione malari et parotica 

 diffuse coccinea, macula minore sericeo-alba ; nuchas 

 plumulis flavis, macula apicali nigra ; gutturis nota 

 siibangusta, longitudinali, irregulari, nigra; fascia infra- 

 gutturali hand circumscripta, dilute ex aurantiaco 

 rubente, infra plumis uigris albo-guttatis margiuata ; 

 interscapulio, dorso, alarum tectricibus scapularibusque 

 in fundo nigro maculis subtriangularibus albis, distincte 



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