POGONORIIYNCIIUS LEUC0MELA8. 
(T HE TIED B A II B E T.) 
Le Barlm du Cap de Vesperance ..... (1783) Buff. ; PI. Enl. Vol. VII. pi. 688. f. 1. 
Le Barbu a plastron noir (1783) Buff. ; PI. Enl. Vol. VII. pi. 688. f. 1 . 
Bucco leucomelas (1783) Bodd. ; Tabl. des PI. Enl. 688. 
Bucco niger (1788) Gmel. ; Syst. Nat. p. 407. 
Le Barhu a gorge noire (1806) LevaiU. ; Barbus, pis. 29, 30, 31. 
Bucco rufifrons (1815) Steph. ; Gen, Zool. IX. pt. I. p. 31. 
Pogonia Stephens i ....... (1815) Leach ; Zool. Misc. II. 1. 116. 
Pogonias nigcr ........ (1829) Cuv. ; Eegn. An. p. 457. 
„ unidentatus ....... (1842) Licht. ; Verz. Vog. Kafferl. p. 17. 
Laimodon leucomelas ^ . (1846) G. E. Gray; Gen. of Birds, II. p. 429. 
unidentatus (1846) G. R. Gray ; Gen. of Birds, II. p. 429. 
Pogonias leucomelas (1852) Strickl. & Sclat. Contr. Orn. p. 155. 
PogonorJiynchus leucomelas ...... (1863) Goff. ; Mus. P. B. Bucc. p. 7. 
P. sexibus similibus : minor : rostro nigro : fronte coccinea : occipite nigro : gutture, pectoreque medio nigris. 
Hab. in Africa occidentali et septeiitrionali. 
Sexes alike ; forehead and top of the head crimson ; upper plumage, a broad line down 
the side of the head and neck, throat and the middle of the breast black ; a broad stripe 
above the eye sulphur-yellow, shading into white down the sides of the occiput and neck ; 
back and wing-coverts irregularly striped with bright yellow, the rump being almost entirely 
of that colour; the feathers of the shoulders broadly edged with white; quills and tail 
brown, exterior web narrowly bordered with bright yellow ; a large oval moustachial spot 
and the under surface white; irides brown; bill and feet black. Length 6", wing 3"- 6, 
tail2"-8. 
Hab. Cape Colony {Layard) ; Kaffraria ( Verreaux) ; Trans-^'aal {Ayres) ; Damaraland 
(Andersson) ; Ondonga (Andersson) ; Benguela (Monteiro). 
Additional references.— J?mcco niger: Lath. (1790), Ind. Orn. p. 204; Vieill. (1816), N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. III. 
p. 242. Laimodon leucomelas: Layard (1867), B. of S. Afr. p. 232, no. 463. Laimodon unidentatus: Bp. (1854), 
Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 12; Verr. (1859), P. Z. S. p. 395; Layard (1867), B. of S. Africa, p. 233, no. 464. Pogonias 
leucomelas : Mont, (1865), P. Z. S. p. 95. Le Barhu d gorge noire : Vieill. (1816), N. D. d'Hist. Nat. p. 242. Pogonias 
niger: Wagler (1827), Syst. Av. no. 6. Pogonorhijnchus leucomelas: Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 3 ; 
Sharpe (1871), Cat. Afr. B. p. 15. 
