BARBATULA ATROFLAVA. 
(THE BLACK AND YELLOW BAIIBET.) 
Bucco ntroflavus (1805) Blumenb. ; Abb. nat. Geg. t. 6.5. 
La Barbion d dos rouge (1806) Le Vaill. Barbus, No. 57. 
Bucco erythronotus , . • ■ (1817) Cuvier ; Regn. An. p. 428. 
Megalaima atroflava (1846) G. E. Gray; Gen. of B. II. p. 430. 
Barhatula atroflavus (1850) Bonap. ; Consp. Av. I. p. 145. 
atroflava (1851) Strickland ; Contr. Orn. p. 135. 
erythronotus (1851) Verreaux ; Rev. de Zool. p. 262. 
B. sesibns similibus : uropygio rubro : supra nitenti-nigra. 
Hah. in Africa occidentali. 
Sexes alike ; upper plumage and sides of the face metallic blue-black ; lores and a line 
below the eye white; rump bright scarlet; quills and tail brownish black; the lesser 
wing-coverts broadly tipped with yellow; the greater wing-coverts and the secondaries 
narrowly edged, and the tail-feathers thinly pencilled with the same colour ; a superciliary 
ray and a line along the cheeks yellow ; throat bright yellow; the rest of the under surface 
pale greenish yellow ; bill black ; rictal bristles strongly developed ; legs and feet plumbeous ; 
wing 2"-25. 
The young bird wants the bright yellow of the throat, and has the upper plumage 
duller and more edged with yellow. 
Hob. West Africa. Liberia, Aguapim, Galam, Gaboon, Moonda {Verreaux)', Fantee 
( Ussher, mus. B. B. Sharpe). 
Additional references.— 5mcco atroflavus: Sparrm. Act. Suec. XVIII. t. 9 ; Hartlaub (1841), Rev. Zool. p. 337. 
Bucco erythronotus : Cuv. (1829) Regn. An. p. 458 ; Lesson (1831), Traite d'Orn. p. 144 ; Hartlaub (1841), Rev. Zool. 
p. 337. Megalaima atroflava : Goffin (1863), Cat. Mus. Pays-Bas, Bucc. p. 42 ; G. R. Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. 
Capit. p. 14. Barhatula atroflava : Hartlaub (1854), Journ. f. Orn. p. 196 ; Bonaparte (1854), Consp. Vol. Zyg. 
p. 12. Sp. 17 ; Hartlaub ( 1857), Syst. Orn. W. Afr. p. 172. No. 514 ; Verreaux (1859), P. Z. S. p. 398. Barhatula 
erythronotus : Strickland (1851), Contr. Orn. p. 135. Sp. 25. 
