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SALT'S, OR BLACK-BODIED BARBUT. 



Pogonias Saltii, SWAINS. 



Body, above and beneath, glossy black ; front, sides of t* 

 head, throat, and breast, crimson ; wings brown ; the covers 

 margined with white, the quills with yellow. 



Bucco Salti, Earl Derby in Salt's Travels, App. 46, 54 Bucco 



Salti, Lath. Gen. Hist. iii. 258 Pogonias rubrifrons, ZooL 

 Ittust.^ 2d series, pi. 68; Syst. Avium Pogonias^ No. 4. 



THE late Mr. Salt, while prosecuting his valuable re- 

 searches among the antiquities of Egypt and its 

 neighbouring countries, paid much attention to col- 

 lecting materials for illustrating their natural his- 

 tory; and although the results have not been attended 

 with that advantage to science that might have been 

 expected, his name well deserves to be enrolled 

 among those who have benefited ornithology*. Im- 

 pressed with this conviction, we cheerfully renounce 

 our former designation of this species of Barbut, in 

 order that it may be consecrated to him who was 

 probably its first discoverer. An attempt has been 

 made, indeed, to substitute a third specific name, 

 by an author quite ignorant of the above facts ; 



* This has originated from nearly all the species having 

 been placed by Dr. Latham, to whom they were sent, under 

 the old genera, where they are now as good as lost. 



