POGONORYNCHUS DUBIUS. 
(THE GROVE-BILLED BARBET.) 
Bo Barbican des cotes de Barbaric (c. 1780) Buff. PI. Enl. 602. 
Boubtful Barbet ....... (1782) Lath. Syn. I, pt. 2, p. 506. 
Bucco dubius (1788) Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 109. 
Pogonias dubius ....... (1811) Illig. Prod. Mamm. et Ay. p. 202. 
Pogonorynchus dubius (1835) Van der Hoev. Handb. II, p. 461. 
Laimodon dubius (1841) Gray, List of Gen. of B. p. 69. 
Pogonias dubius . (1854) Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 12. 
Pogonias sulcirostris . . . . . ■ (1815) Leach, Zool. Misc. pi. 76. 
Pogonia erythromelas (1816) Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Ill, p. 236. 
Pogonias major (1817) Cuv. Regne Anim. I, p. 428. 
Be barbican ........ (1806) Le Vaill. Barbus, pi. 18. 
V sexibus simillibus : supra niger : dorso imQ albo : gutture coeeineo: pectore nigro 
s ctis rictalibus fortissimis. 
mandibula yalde sulcata 
Hob. in Africa occidentali. 
Above deep blue-black ; lores tipped with crimson ; wing-coverts also sparsely 
margined with crimson ; quills brown, pale yellow at the base of the inner web, 
secondaries washed with blue-black ; middle of the back white ; tail black, more glossy on 
the upper surface ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and entire throat rich crimson ; below the throat a 
broad pectoral band of deep blue-black ; a patch of silky feathers on each side of the body 
yellowish white, with tiny spots of black ; centre of the breast and abdomen crimson tinged 
with yellow ; flanks and under tail-coverts deep blue-black ; bill yellow, shading into red at 
the base, and white at the tip ; orbital skin orange ; legs and feet yellow tinged with rufous. 
Total length about 9 inches, wing from 4'25 to 4'5, tail 3'75, tarsus 1'0. 
Additional references . — Pogonias dubius. Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 169 (1857), Verr. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 393, 
^°9°norynchus dubius, Goff, in Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Buecones, p. I (1862). Pogonias sulcirostris, Swains. B. 
tY Afr. II, p. 166 (1837). Pogonias major, Less. Traite d’Orn. 159. 
