POGONORHYNCHUS TORQUATUS. 
(THE BIAC K-C OLLARED BARBET.) 
Bucco torquatus ....... 
Pogonias nigrithorax ...... 
,, jiersonatus ...... 
Bucco nigrithorax ...... 
Laimodon nigrithorax ..... 
„ nigrothorax ..... 
Pogonorhynchus torquatus ..... 
„ nigrithorax .... 
P. minor, rostro nigro, capite toto guttureque coccineis 
Hah. in Africa meridionali. 
(1806) Dum. ; Diet. Sci. Nat. IY. p. 56. 
(1817) Cuv. ; Regn. An. I. App. p. 428. 
(1823) Temm. ; PI. Col. pi. 201. 
(1829) Cuv. ; Regn. An. p. 457. 
(1846) G. R. Gray; Gen. of Birds, II. p. 428. 
(1862) Gurney ; Ibis, IY. p. 32. 
(1863) Goff. ; Mus. Pays Bas, Buce. p. 4. 
(1864) Kirk; Ibis, YI. p. 328. 
dorso cinerascenti-fusco, sulpbureo lavato. 
Sexes alike ; forehead, top of the head, sides of the face, and throat scarlet ; occiput, 
nape, and a broad band, bordering the red and meeting on the breast so as to form a 
pectoral gorget, shining black ; back, shoulders, and wing-coverts light ashy brown washed 
with sulphur-yellow, and finely mottled ; wings and tail dark brown, inner webs of the quills 
pale yellowish at their base; exterior web of the secondaries and tertiaries edged with 
sulphur-yellow ; under surface greyish white, washed with sulphur-yellow ; bill black ; 
irides bright rufous-brown; legs and feet brown (Ayres), black (Temminck) ; length 6"-5, 
wing 3" - 7, tail 2"-6 (Layard). 
Hab. Valleys of the Zambesi (Kirk)-, Natal (Ayres)-, Central Africa (Burchell)-, 
Kaffraria (Verreaux)-, Highlands near Graham’s Town, Cape of Good Hope (Layard)-, 
Uzarano (Speke & Grant). 
Additional references. — Bucco torquatus : Cuvier (1829), Regn. An. p. 457. Pogonias personatus : Lesson (1831), 
Trait. d’Orn. p. 160; Wagl. (1827), Syst. Av. spec. 3; Cuvier (1829), Regn. An. p. 457. Laimodon nigrithorax: 
Bonaparte (1854), Consp. Yolucr. Zygod. p. 12; Verreaux (1859), P. Z. S. p. 395; Layard (1867), Birds of S. Afr. 
p. 233. Lcemodon nigrithorax : Layard (1869), Ibis, p. 373. Pogonorhynchus torquatus : Sclater (1864), P. Z. S. 
p. 112; G. R. Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 2; Cab. (1870) in Van der Decken, Reisen in Ost-Afrik. III. 
p. 503. 
