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. Iris hazel; bill and legs black. 
[Vieillot^s Barbet is fairly well distributed, but not 
common. — R. M. H.] 
(2) Melanobucco rubescens. 
Le Barbu Rubicon Levaill. Barbus, iii., Snppl. p. 43^ fig. d 
(1807). 
Pogonias rubescens Temm. PI. Col. iii., Pogonias, sp. 5 
(1823). 
Pogonias senegalensis Licbt. Verz. Doubl. p. 9 (1823). 
Pogonias rubicon Cuv. Reg. Anim. p. 457 (1829). 
Pogonorhynchus vieilloti Marshall, Monog. Capit. p. 21, 
pi. xi. (1871) [Fantee]. 
Melandbucco vieilloti Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 26 
(1891) [part., W. Africa, specimens «-w] . 
Adult. Feathers of the middle of the back brown, edged 
with yellowish white ; throat, chest, and middle of the breast 
widely tipped with scarlet, giving these parts the appearance 
of being heavily mottled with scarlet ; sides of the breast and 
flanks yellower, the latter with black middles to the feathers. 
Hab. West Africa. 
. 78. CUCULUS CANORUS. 
Cuculus canorus Linn. ; Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. 
p. 245 (1891) ; Witherby, p. 264. 
a. S . 20 miles N. of Fashoda, 14th April. No. 359. 
b. S ' Kaka, 23rd April. No. 393. 
Iris yellowish brown ; eyelids yellow ; bill dusky, yellowish 
at base of lower mandible ; gape orange; legs and feet dark 
yellow. 
[I never observed the Cuckoo till April, when I heard one 
calling very feebly. — R. M. H.] 
79. Chrysococcyx klaasi. 
Chrysococcyx klaasi Steph. ; Shelley, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xix. p. 283 (1891). 
a. S ' Benk, 10th May. No. 463. 
Bill, legs, and feet black. 
[I only saw two of the beautiful Klaas's Bronze Cuckoo.-^ 
R. M. H.] 
