POGONORHYNCHUS MELANOCEPHALUS. 
(THE ABYSSINIAN BARBET.) 
Pogonias melanocephalus ....... (1827)Rupp. ; Atl. t. 28. fig. a, p. 41. 
bifrenatus (1828) Ehrenb. ; Symb. Phys. t. 8. fig. 2. 
„ melanocephalus (1852) Sclat. ; Contr. Ornith. p. 126. 
Laimodon bifrenatus (1846) Gray; Gen. of B. II. p. 429. 
(1854) Bonap. ; Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 12. 
Pogonias bifrenatus (1854) Hartl. ; Journ. f. Om. p. 197. 
(1857) Hartl. ; Syet. Orn. W. Afr. p. 171. 
Laimodon bifrenatus (1859) Verr. ; P. Z. S. p. 396. 
Lcemodon melanocephalus ....... (1859) Heugl. ; Ibis, p. 343. 
Pogonorhijnchus bifrenatus (1861) Heugl. ; Ibis, p. 124. 
„ melanocephalus (1863) Goffin ; Mus. P.-B. Bucc. p. 10. 
„ (1868) Gray ; Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 4. 
P. sexibus simUibus : minor : rostro nigro : capita guttureque nigris. 
Hob. in Africa. 
Sexes alike ; head, neck, throat, and centre of breast black ; a narrow stripe over the 
eye, extending down the sides of the neck, and a moustachial streak snow-white ; upper 
plumage dark brown, irregularly striped with sulphur-yellow, more so on the rump ; 
exterior webs of the greater wing-coverts, quills, and tail bordered with the same colour; 
the tertiaries have the, exterior webs margined with white ; under surface white ; the 
black of the throat comes down to a point on the breast, and some of the feathers have 
the shafts extended slightly beyond the webs ; bill, legs, and feet black ; wing 2"-65, 
tail 1"*75 in dried specimens. 
Hah. Abyssinia {Bibppell, Heuglin) ; Angola {Henderson). 
This species was first described by Riippell in 1827. In general plumage it is similar 
