VIEILLOT'S POGONIUS. 3 



Black Pogonius ; throat, neck, breast, abdomen and a stripe on 

 the wings scarlet ; back with a white spot ; crown of the head 

 variegated with scarlet; beak smooth, not grooved. 



Bucco dubius @. Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 200. 16. 



Pogonius laevirostris. Leach Zool. Misc. 2. t. 77 



BEAK not grooved beneath : general colour 

 blueish black : the crown of the head variegated 

 with crimson, which colour passes behind the eyes, 

 and reaches forward to the breast, which is like- 

 wise crimson ; greater wing-coverts tipped with 

 crimson, forming an oblique bar of the same across 

 the wing : on the back is a white spot : all the 

 under parts are red, except the chin, which is 

 black : quills brown : this bird inhabits Africa : 

 there is a very fine specimen preserved in the 

 British Museum. 



VIEILLOT'S POGONIUS. 



(Pogonius Vieilloti.) 



P. brumieus; subtus albidus ; capite collo gula maculisque pec* 

 toralibus coccineis ; remigibus interioribus extern^ pallido mar- 

 ginatis; rostro l&vi, hand sulcata. 



Brown Pogonius ; whitish beneath ; head, neck, throat, and 

 spots on the breast, scarlet; interior wing-quills externally 

 margined with pale ; beak smooth, not grooved. 



Pogonius Vieilloti. Leach Zool. Misc. 2. 104. t. $J. 



THE only specimen that I have seen is preserved 

 in the British Museum : this appears to be a young 

 bird in the state of changing its plumage. In- 

 habits Africa. 



