TRACHYPHONUS OAFER. 
(LE VAILLANT'S BARHET.) 
Le Promefic (1807) Le Vaill. Prom. p. 77, t. 32. 
Plcus eafer (1818) Yieill. N. Diet. XXVI, p. 102. 
Cucu2ncus cafer (L828) Less. Man. d'Orn. II, p. 116. 
Trachyphonus cafcr .... (1854) Boiiap. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 12. 
Capito cafer (1862) Goff. in Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Buccones, p. 65. 
Trachyphonus VaiUantu . . . (1821) Kanz. Elem. di Zool. Ucc. pt. II, p. 159. 
Capita Vaillantvi ..... (1841) Gray, List of Gen. of B. p. 69. 
Micropogon sulphuratus '. . . (1836) Lafr. Mag. de Zool. pi. 60. 
PoUystictice quopopa . '. . . ' ■;1836) Smith, Kep. Exp. Expl. Centr. Afr. p. 40. 
Tr. crista occipitali nigra magaa : dorso nigro. 
Hab. in Africa meridionali. 
Entire head brilliant chrome yellow, each feather edged with crimson at the tip, tliis 
latter colour predominating on the cheeks ; back of the head, nape, and a large occipital 
crest glossy blue-black ; a spot on the ear-coverts black tipped with white ; upper part of 
the back, scapulars and wing-coverts glossy blue-black banded with pure white ; lower part 
of the back and rump black washed with rich chrome -yellow, this colour alone shewing on 
the rump ; upper tail-coverts rich crimson ; cjuills brownish-black, grey at the base of the 
inner web, the outer web spotted with white ; tail black, in some lights appearing very dis- 
tinctly barred, all the feathers broadly tipped and sparsely spotted with white ; chin white ; 
throat chrome tipped with crimson, and shading into beautiful lilac on the breast ; a band 
of black across the upper part of the breast with a few spots of lilac ; rest of the breast 
white, passing on the lower part into chrome streaked with crimson ; flanks and abdomen 
chrome ; bill pale green, blackish at the tip; legs and feet dull brown; orbital skin blackish. 
Additional references.- Trachyphomts cafer, YerT. P.Z.S. 1859, p. 399 ; Newton, Ibis, 1868, p. 298 ; Gray, 
Cat. Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 17 ; Bocage. Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1869, p. 349. Ca2nto VaiUantii, Layard, B. of S. Afr. 
p. 235 (1867). 
