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HAIRY-BREASTED POGONIAS. 



Pogonias hirsitius, SWAINS. 



Above brown, spotted with sulphur- yellow ; beneath sul- 

 phureous with black spots ; head and chin black ; feathers 

 of the breast lengthened, and ending in long setaceous hairs. 



Pogonias hirsutus, Sw. Zool. Illust. vol. ii. pi. 72. Pogonias 

 hirsutus, Sy sterna Av. No. 7. 



NEVER having seen more than one specimen of this 

 extraordinary bird, and which, moreover, seems to 

 be unknown to all the modern writers, except from 

 our original description, we must be content with 

 referring to our former notes, and to the figure we 

 have already given of it on the 72d plate of the First 

 Series of Zoological Illustrations. The specimen in 

 question was sent (we believe with the last species) 

 from Sierra Leone. 



Total length a little more than seven inches; 

 head, neck, chin, and part of the throat, deep black, 

 relieved by a short white stripe just behind the eye, 

 and another which forms a maxillary stripe, begin- 

 ing at the base of the under mandible, and extend- 

 ing half way down the side of the neck. The black 

 colour of the head changes on the upper plumage to 

 a dark brown, which spreads over the wings and 



