POGONORHYNCHUS ROLLETI. 
(ROL LET’S BASBET.) 
Pogonias rolleti . 
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Pogonorhynchus rolleti 
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(1853) Dcfil. ; Rev. Zool. p. 290. 
(1854) Bonap. ; Consp. Yol. Zyg. p. 12. 
(1857) Hartl. ; Syst. Orn. W. Afr. p. 109. 
(1859) Verr. ; P. Z. S. p. 394. 
(1861) Heugl. ; Ibis, p. 123, pi. 5. fig. 1. 
(1863) Goffln ; Mus. P.-B. Buee. p. 2. 
(1868) Gray ; Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 2. 
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P. sexibus similibus: major: supra niger, dorso imo albo: gutture pectoreque mgris. 
ventre imo cocoineo. 
Hob. in Africa orientali. 
Sexes alike; general plnmage shining blue-black; middle of the abdomen and under 
tail-coverts rich red ; a large spot on the rump and the flanks snow-white , bi pa t b ree | lls 1 
yellow, bluish at the base, very powerful, deeply grooved, and strongly dou e toot e 
orbital skin violet ; irides brown ; legs and feet bluish brown , wing ’ 
Hob. North-eastern Africa: Nubia, White Nile (Verreaux, Heughn). 
This is the rarest species of the large subgroup of this genus, and differs from the other- 
two by its black throat and breast. It is as large as P. dubius , but has not got the sulcated 
mandible ; the rictal bristles also are fewer in number. 
. - J. ., • T-.J t 'Phe Ibis’ (l cX and a drawing of the head 
Von Heuglin gave a figure of this bnd m v 
in his ‘ Birds of North-east Africa.’ He also gives the following note .— 
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“ Found on the banks of the Upper Bahr-ei-Abiaa, wneic 
