TRACHYPHONUS PURPURATIIS. 
(THE PURPLE BAPvBET.) 
Trachyphonus purpuratus 
Capito purpuratus 
(1851) Verr. Kev. et Mag. de Zool. p. 260. 
(1851) Strickl. Contr. Om. p. 135. 
(1854) Bp. Oonsp. Volucr. Zyg. p. 12, sp. 24. 
(1854) Hartl. Journ. f. Om. p. 195, No. 407. 
(1857) „ Syst. Orn. West Afr. p. 175, No. 
(1859) Verr. P. Z. S. p. 399. 
(1861) Heugl. Ibis, p. 164. 
(1868) G. E. Gr. Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 18. 
(1863) Goffin, Mus. Pays Bas. Bucc. p. 71. 
T. sexibussimiHbus: supraniger: uropygio omnino nigro : liypocliondriis nigris, sulphureo punctatis. 
Hah. in provincia Gabonensi Africae occidentalis. 
Sexes alike; forehead, top of the head, and a narrow stripe down each side of the 
neck, dark crimson; occiput, nape, back, and shoulders, dull black, broadly margined with 
metallic blue-black; lesser wing-coverts pure white; wmgs and tail, brownish black; in 
some specimens a few of the feathers of the upper tail-coverts are narrowly pencilled at 
the tip with sulphur yellow; throat and upper breast, the feathers of which have a 
lanceolated appearance, the web being divided at the tip, black, with broad silver-grey tips ; 
below this is a narrow but distinct band of hery red ; breast yellow ; flanks and the rest of 
the under-surface jet black, with large drops of yellow at the tips of the feathers. Beak 
yellow, orbital skin yellow, legs and feet dark plumbeous. Length 9", wing 4", taH 3."8, 
tarsus 1". 
Hah. Gaboon, near the Gamma and Moonda rivers (Duchaillu). 
This species is nearly allied to T. goffini, from which, however, it is not difficult to 
distinguish it, on account of its conspicuous black flanks, with round yellow spots and the 
naked yellow orbital skin. A further distinctive character is the flery red band across the 
