POGONORHYNCHUS MELANOPTERUS. 
(THE WHITE-BELLIED BAEBET.) 
Pogonias melanopterus ..... (1854) Peters ; Ber. Akad. Berl. p. 134. 
Laimodon albiventris ..... (1859) \ err. ; P. Z. S. pp. 393, 395, pi. 15/ . 
Pogonorhynchus melanopterus .... (1863) Goffin ; Cat. Hus. Pays Bas, Bucc. p. 6. 
„ „ .... (1868) Gray; Cat. Brit. Hus. Capitonidse, p. 3. 
(1869) Y. d. Decken ; Beisen in Ost-Afrika, p. 39. 
„ „ .... (1870) Finsch & Hartl. ; Om. Ost-Afr. p. 504. 
„ „ .... (1870) Gray ; Hand-1, of B. II. p. 173. 
P. sexibus similibus : major : rostro ilavicante : fronte rubra : pectore brunneo. 
Hab. in regione AEthiopica. 
Head and neck red ; the base of the feathers black from the crown down to the top 
of the back ; the latter as well as the rest of the upper parts, the fore part of the neck, 
and chest earthy brown, deeper in the centre of this last, nearly all the feathers of these 
parts having their shafts of a white more or less pure ; an oblong white spot on the 
centre of the rump ; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts pure white ; feathers of the flanks 
rather long and slender ; thighs brown, with the edges of the plumes of the same colour, 
but purer ; wings and tail black ; the same white lines of the shafts are very conspicuous 
on the wing-coverts as well as on the secondaries nearest the body ; beak higher than 
broad, with the upper mandible double-toothed, the base bluish, and furnished with 
bristles directed forwards, the remainder of the bill dingy yellow; tarsi stiongly scutel- 
lated and, together with the toes, of a bluish colour; claws rather hooked, brown, bastaid 
wing very short, the first, fifth, and sixth quills the longest; secondaries equal in length, 
their inferior coverts and the inner webs of the quills white ; tail rounded. Total length 
16 cent. 7 mill., length of wing when closed 8 cent. 5 mill., tail / cent., beak from the 
angle of the mouth 2 cent. 7 mill., tarsi 2 mill. 
Hab. West Africa (Verreaux). East Africa: Mozambique {Peters ) ; Mombas ( Von der 
Decken ). 
