POGONORIIYNCIIUS BI1)ENTATU8. 
(T HE HE D-W I N G E D B A 11 B E T.) 
Bucco hidentatm (1798) Shaw ; Nat. Misc. pi. :3!J3. 
Le petit Barbican (180G) Le Vaill. ; Barbus^ pi. A. 
Pogonia Icevirostris ....... (1815) Leach; Zool. Misc. pi. 77. t. 17. 
Pogonius le VaiUantii (1815) Leach; Zool. Misc. pi. 117. 
Bucco leuconotus (1816) Vieill. ; N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. III. p. 242. 
Le Barbu d dos Mane (1816) VieiU. ; N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. III. p. 242. 
Pogonias minor ....... (1817) Cuvier; Eegn. An. I. p. 428. 
„ Icevirostris . (1829) Cuvier ; Eegn. An. I. p. 457. 
Laimodon hidentatus (1846) G. R. Gray; Gen. of Birds, II. p. 428. 
Pogonias hidentatus (1854) Bonap. ; Consp. Av. I. p. 145. 
Laimodon Icevirostris (1856) Heugl. ; Syst. Ueb. Vog. N. 0. Afr. p. 47. 
Pogonorhynchus hidentatus (1861) Heugl. ; Ibis, p. 123. 
Akoho of the natives of Ibadan {Hinder er) . 
P. major, rostro flavicante : sexibus similibus : supra niger, dorso imo albo, gutture pectoreque toto coccineis. 
Hab. in Africa occideutali. 
Sexes alike ; upper surface shining black ; head indistinctly striped with red ; a broad 
transversal band of rich red on the greater wing-coverts ; quills brown, paler at the base of 
the inner web ; a large white spot on the lower back ; under surface rich red, Hanks and 
under the wings snow-white; thighs and under tail-coverts shining black; bill double- 
toothed, pale yellowish, bristles black; irides purple, orbital skin orange; legs and feet 
yellow with a rufous tinge; wing o"-7, tail 2" 8. 
Hab. Western Africa. Eantee ( Ussher) ; Ibadan {Hinderer) ; Senegal, Guinea, Gaboon 
( Verreaux). 
Additional references.— 5mcco le VaiUantii : Vieillot (1816), N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. IV. p. 243. Le Barhu le 
Vaillant: Vieillot (1816), N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. IV. p. 243. Pogonias hidentatus: Hartlaub (1857), Syst. Orn. W. 
Afr. p. 170 ; Verreaux (1859), P. Z. S. p. 394; Gurney (1859), Ibis, I. p. 153. PogonorhijncJius hidentatus: Goffin 
(1863), Cat. Mus. Pays Bas, Buccones, p. 3; G. R. Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit, p. 2 ; Sharpe (1869), Ihis, 
p. 193. Pogonias Icevirostris : Wagler (1827), Syst. Av. No. 2. 
