Birds from the White Nile. 4,27 



Iris hazel; bill and legs black. 



[Vieillot^s Barbet is fairly well distributcdj but nut 

 common. — R. M. H.] 



(2) MeLANOBUCCO RUBESCE^fS. 



Le Barbu Rubicon Levaill. Barbus^ iii., Suppl. p. 43^ fig. d 

 (1807). 



Pogonias rubescens Temm. PL Col. iii., Pogonias, sp. 5 

 (1823). 



Pogonias senegalensis Licbt. Verz. Doubl. p. 9 (1823). 



Pogonias rubicon Cuv. Reg. Anim. p. 4o7 (18'29). 



Pogonorhynchus vieilloti Marshall, Monog. Capit. p. 21, 

 pi. xi. (1871) [Fantee]. 



Melanobucco vieilloti Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 26 

 (1891) [part., W. Africa, specimens a-w] . 



Adult. Feathers of the middle of the back brown, edged 

 with yellowish white ; throat, chest, and middle of the breast 

 widely tipped with scarlet, giving these parts the appearance 

 of being heavily mottled with scarlet ; sides of the breast and 

 flanks yellower, the latter with black middles to the feathers. 



Hab. West Africa. 



78. CUCULUS CANORUS. 



Cuculus canorus Linn. ; Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. 

 p. 245 (1891) ; Witherby, p. 264. 



a. S • 20 miles N. of Fashoda, 14th April. No. 359. 



b. S ' Kaka, 23rd April. No. 393. 



Iris yellowish brown ; eyelids yellow ; bill dusky, yellowish 

 at base of lower mandible ; gape orange; legs and feet dark 

 yellow. 



[I never observed the Cuckoo till April, when I heard one 

 calling very feebly. — R. M. H.] 



79. Chrysococcyx klaasi. 



Clirysococcyx klaasi Steph. ; Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xix. p. 283 (1891). 



a. S • Renk, 10th May. No. 463. 



Bill, legs, and feet black. 



[I only saw two of the beautiful Klaas's Bronze Cuckoo.— i 

 11. M. H.] 



