POGONORYNOHUS DUBIUS. 
(THE GKOVE-BILLED BARBET.) 
Le Barbican des cotes de Barbaric .... (c 1780) I3uff. PI. Enl. 602. 
Doubtful Barbet (1782) Lath. Syu. I, pt. 2, p. .500. 
Bucco dubitcs ........ (1788) Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 109. 
Pogonias dubius (1811) lUig. Prod. Mamm. et Av. p. 202. 
Pogonorijnchus dubius (1835) Van der Hoev. Handb. II, p. 4GI. 
Laimodon dubius ........ (1841) Gray, List of Gen. of 13. p. 69. 
Pogonias dubius (1854) Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 12. 
Pogonias sulcirostris . (1815) Leach, Zool. Misc. pi. 76. 
Pogonia erythromelas (1816) Vieill. Nouv. Diet. I EI, p. 236. 
Pogonias major . (1817) Cuv. Regne Anim. I, p. 428. 
Le barbican (1806) Le Vaill. Barbus, pi. 18. 
P. sexibus simillibus : supra niger : dorso inio aibo : gutture cocciiieo: pectore nigro : mandibula valde sulcata 
setis rictalibus fortissimis. 
Hah. in Africa occideiitali. 
Above deep blue-black ; lores tipped with crimson ; wing-coverts also sparsely- 
margined with crimson ; quills brown, pale yellow at the base of the inner web, 
secondaries washed with blue-black ; middle of the back white ; tail black, more glossy on 
the upper surface ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and entire throat rich crimson ; below the throat a 
broad pectoral band of deep blue-black ; a patch of silky feathers on each side of the body 
yellowish white, with tiny spots of black ; centre of the breast and abdomen crimson tinged 
with yellow ; flanks and under tail-coverts deep blue-black ; bill yellow, shading into red at 
the base, and white at the tip ; orbital skin orange ; legs and feet yellow tinged with rufous. 
Total length about 9 inches, wing from 4-25 to 4*5, tail 3-75, tarsus I'O. 
Additional references.— Po(7omas dubius. Hartl. Orn. "Westafr. p. 169 (1857), Verr. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 393, 
Pogonorgnchvs dubius, Goff. in Schl. Mu8. Pays Bas, Buccones, p. I (1862). Pogonias sulcirostris, Swains. B. 
of W. Afr. II, p. 166 (1837). Pogonias major, Less. Traite d'Orn. 159. 
