POGONORHYNCTIUS TORQUATOS. 
(THE B L A C K-C O L L A 11 E D B A 11 Ji E ^r.) 
Bucco torquatus . 
Pogonias nigrithorax . 
„ p&rsonatus 
Bucco nigrithorax 
Laimodon nigrithorax 
nigrothorax 
Pogonorhynchws torquatus . 
„ nigrithorax 
(1846) G. E. Gray; Gen. of Birds, II. p. 428, 
(1862) Gumey ; Ibis, lY. p. 32. 
(1863) Goff. ; Mus. Pays Bas, Bucc. p. 4. 
(1864) Kirk; Ibis, VI. p. 328. 
(1806) Dum. ; Diet. Sci. Nat IV. p. 56. 
(1817) Cuv. ; Eegn. An. I. App. p. 428. 
(1823) Temm.; PI. Col. pi. 201. 
(1829) Cuv. ; Regn. An. p. 457. 
P. minor, rostro nigro, capite toto guttureque coecineis 
dorso cinerascenti-fusco, sulphureo lavato. 
Ilab. in Africa meridionali. 
Sexes alike ; forehead, top of the head, sides of the face, and throat scarlet ; occiput, 
nape, and a broad band, bordering the red and meeting on the breast so as to form a 
pectoral gorget, shining black; back, shoulders, and wing-coverts light ashy brown washed 
with sulphur-yellow, and finely mottled ; wings and tail dark brown, inner webs of the quills 
pale yellowish at their base ; exterior web of the secondaries and tertiaries edged with 
sulphur-yellow ; under surface greyish white, washed with sulphur-yellow ; bill black ; 
irides bright rufous-brown; legs and feet brown (A^res), h\ack (Temminck) ; length 6"-5, 
wing 3"-7, tail 2"-6 {Layard), 
Hah. Valleys of the Zambesi {Kirh); Natal [Ayres); Central Africa (BurcheU); 
Kaffraria (Verreaiu:); Highlands near Graham's Town, Cape of Good Hope {Lay arc!); 
Uzarano [Speke & Grant). 
Additional references. — Bucco torquatus-. Cuvier (1829), Regn. An. p. 457. Pogonias personatus : Lesson (1831), 
Trait. d'Orn. p. 160; Wagl. (1827), Syst. Av. spec. 3; Cuvier (1829), Regn. An. p. 457. Laimodon nigrithorax: 
Bonaparte (1854), Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 12; Verreaux (1859), P. Z, S. p. 395; Layard (1867), Birds of S. Afr. 
p. 233. Lcemodon nigrithorax: Layard (1869), Ibis, p. 373. Pogonorhynchus torquatus: Sclater (1864), P. Z. S. 
p. 112; G. R. Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 2; Cab. (1870) in Van der Decken, Reisen in Ost-Afrik. III. 
p. 503. 
