Dr. G. Hartlaub on a new Barbet. Ill 



which there are only irregular traces in Tr. arnaudi ; and 4, 

 the iufra-pectoral fascia formed by black feathers with a large 

 white spot at the tip, so conspicuous in Tr. boehmi, is 

 but feebly and most irregularly indicated in Tr. arnaudi. 



5. Trachyphonus versicolor. 



Tr. versicolor, Hartl. Zweit. Beitr. Orn. ostl. Aequat. 

 Africa, in Abhandl. naturw. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 208; id. 

 Ornith. Centr. Bl. 1882, p. 91 ; id. Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1882, 

 p. 326. 



Tarrangole : Emin Bey. 



Very fine and adult specimens of both sexes are in the 

 Bremen collection. They are as yet the only ones known. 



Tarrangole is a station on the Chor Kohs in Lattuka, 

 4° 28' N. lat. 



Diagn. — Valde affinis Tr. erythrocephalo , sed diversus statura 

 multo majore (240 mill. !), rubediue capitis multo minus 

 extensa et subcaudalibus pallide et pure flavis. 



In the female of this species the black crown of the head 

 and the black longitudinal guttural stripe are wanting, the 

 feathers of the crown being pale reddish with black bar-like 

 spots ; nape more intensely spotted with red and black ; the 

 red colour of the sides of the head a little more extended 

 than in the male ; the bars of the tail somewhat narrower. 



6. Trachyphonus erythrocephalus. 



Tr. erythrocephalus, Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1878, pp. 206, 

 218, 240, pi. 2. figs. 1 and 2. 



Kitui (Ukamba, East. Afr.), 2°-3° S. lat., Hildebrand. 



Adult specimens of both sexes and young birds are in 

 the Berlin Museum. 



7. Trachyphonus shelleyi, Hartl. 



The high plateau of the interior of the Somali country : 

 Lort Phillips. 



b. Two species : supra concolores. 



8. Trachyphonus purpuratus. 



Tr. purpuratus, J. Verreaux, Rev. et Mag, de Zool. 1851, 

 p. 260; Strickl. Contrib. to Orn. 1851, p. 135; Hartl. Syst. 

 Oru. Westafr. p. 175; Marsh. Monogr. p. 151, pi. 68. 



