158 CAPITONID^ LYBIUS 



Woodivard Bros. Natal B. p. 109 (1899) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 251 ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 426 [Zumbo] ; Imj, Ibis, 1901, p. 22 

 [Albany] . 

 " Isikurukuru " of the Zulus (Woodward). 



Description. Adult. — Forehead and part of crown, cheeks, ear- 

 coverts, chin and throat bright scarlet, hinder part of crown, nape 

 and upper mandible and a collar extending round the neck and 

 upper breast black ; rest of the back and wing-coverts brown with 

 delicate yellow vermiculations ; rump and upper wing-coverts most 

 strongly washed with yellow; wing-quills brown with sulphur-yellow 

 on the outer webs of the feathers, most conspicuous on the inner 



Fig. 51. — Lybius torquatus. x y. 



secondaries ; tail-feathers brown also with slight yellow edging ; 

 rest of the lower surface sulphur-yellow, mottled especially on the 

 flanks with ashy-black blotches and vermiculations ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts creamy-white. 



Iris reddish-brown ; bill black ; legs and feet dark brown. 



Length about 7'5 ; wing 3'6 ; tail 2-3 ; culmen 0-80 ; tarsus 0-88. 



The sexes are alike in plumage. 



An example from Komatipoort in the eastern Transvaal shows 

 some approach to L. irroratus, the east African sub-species, which 

 is distinguished by the more marked freckling of the back and wing- 

 coverts. 



The young bird is duller than the adult, the entire head, throat 

 and chest being a dingy purplish-black, leaving only little scarlet at 

 the sides of the head ; bill brown. 



Distribution. — This Barbet is found only in the eastern portion 



