90 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
MELANOBUCCO, Shelley. 
bidentatus (Shaw). (= Pogonorhynchus dubius (Gm.), Tristr. Cat. Coll. Birds, 
p. 86). Four. West Africa (Lagos; Fantee). 
eequatorialis, Sielley. One. Abyssinia. 
melanopterus (Peters). Three. East Africa (Ribé; Usambara Hills, Pan- 
gani kh. ; Dar-es-salaam). 
levaillanti (Vieill.); leucocephalus (Defilippi); albicauda (Shelley); senex 
(Rehnw.) ; |e ucogaster (Boc. ). 
abyssinicus (Loth.). Five. ¢, 9. [Egypt]. Abyssinia. 
No. 3 ( =12755 Tristr. Mus.) is figured in Marshall, Mon. Capit. p. li, pl. 9 (1870) ; 
but the oe is not a very accurate representation, for the specimen not being 
fully adult has only a narrow frontal band of scarlet, and the rest of the head 
black, with traces of scarlet showi ing through, and not entirely black as in the 
figure. Nos. 4, and 5, male and female (= = 1463, 14634, Lord Derby *s Mus. ), obtained 
in Abyssinia by Salt in 1812, are the types of Bucco saltii, Stanley, Salt’s Voy. 
Abyss. App. iv. p. liv. (1814). In these two specimens the scarlet on the breast 
only extends as far as the angle of the wing. 
rubrifacies (Rchnw.). Ber. Allg. Deutsch. Orn. Ges., Jan. 1892, p.1; id. J.f.0. 1892, 
pp. 3, 25, 215. 
“*Tron black ; forehead, ophthalmic region, parotid and cheeks red ; primaries dark, 
externally margined with whitish yellow, internally with white; under wing- 
coverts white; iris red; beak blackish; feet black. Total length (male), 
205 mm.; wing, 91; tail, 64; beak, 21; tarsus, 21. Closely allied to ”. 
abyssinicus, but distinguishable by its black throat.” (Reichenow). Habitat 
Kimoani, East Central Africa. 
torquatus (Dumont). Ten. 3¢. South Africa (Rustenberg, Transvaal, 
January and June; Natal). 
zombe, Shelley, Ibis, 1893, pp. 10-11; id. op. cit., 1896, p. 178 
One. Central Africa (Nyassaland, Toate: Nov ember). 
‘Similar to MW. torquatus, but spotted with whitish, not scarlet, on the forehead, 
sides of the face and throat. Total length, 5°5 inches ; wing, 3°5.” (Shelley). 
In our specimen, which is apparently immature, the feathers of the forehead, 
cheeks, and throat are black on their basal portions, as in J. torquatus, but 
their tips are pinkish red instead of scarlet ; two feathers are of a deeper shade. 
irroratus (Ca).). Four. East Africa (Kikombo, September; Ribe ; 
Usambara Hills, Pangani R.). 
The specimen from the last-mentioned locality was collected by Sir J. Kirk. 
vieilloti (Leach). Five. ¢. West Africa (Gambia, Bathurst, August). 
Kordofan, July. Central Africa (White Nile). 
undatus (/iipp.). One. Abyssinia. 
This specimen, purchased from E. Verreaux in 1850, is labelled Pogonias brucii, 
Riipp. juv. (cf Marshall, — Capit. p. 18, 1871). It agrees fairly well with 
Marshall's figure (op. cit. p. 27, pl. 13), taken, as he states, from a bird—the only 
one he had seen—in the British Museum, which he considered to be immature ; 
yet Shelley (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xix. p. 27, 1891) makes no mention whatever 
of the immature plumage. 
TRICHOLAMA, J, & E. Verr. 
hirsutum (Swains.). Six. West Africa (Gold Coast, October ; Fantee). 
Two specimens differ from the rest in having the edges of the wing feathers 
and the markings on the back bright ochre yellow, instead of pale glaucous 
green; the hind part of the head is also streaked with the same colour. 
Marshall considers this to be a sign of immaturity ; these specimens, however, 
have every appearance of being fully adult, and it is possible, as Shelley 
suggests, that the yellow marked birds may be the females. 
stictilaama, Rehnw. Ornith. Monatsber. iv. pp. 77-78 (1896). 
“«General colouration the same as that of 7. hirsutum, but the throat streaked with 
black on a white-grey ground. The colouration of the throat is the same as 
that of 7. flavipunctatum, Verr.” (Reichenow). Habitat. Kinjawanga, Central 
Africa. 
