POGONORHYNCHUS LEUCOMELAS. 
(THE PIED BAEBET.) 
Le Barbu clu Cap de Vesperance 
Le Barbu a, plastron noir 
Bucco leucomelas. 
Bucco niger 
Le Barbu d gorge noire 
Bucco rufifrons . 
Pogonia Stephens! 
Pogonias niger 
„ unidentatus . 
Laimodon leucomelas . 
„ unidentatus . 
Pogonias leucomelas 
Pogonorhynclms leucomelas . 
(1783) Buff. ; Pl. Enl. Vol. VII. pi. 688. f. 1. 
(1783) Buff. ; PI. Enl. Vol. VII. pl. 688. f. 1. 
(1783) Bodd. ; Tabl. des Pl. Enl. 688. 
(1788) Gmel. ; Syst. Hat. p. 407. 
(1806) Levaill. ; Barbus, pis. 29, 30, 31. 
(1815) Steph. ; Gen. Zool. IX. pt. I. p. 31. 
(1815) Leach; Zool. Misc. II. 1. 116. 
(1829) Cuv. ; Regn. An. p. 457. 
(1842) Licht. ; Verz. Vog. Kafferl. p. 1 7. 
(1846) G. R. Gray ; Gen. of Birds, II. p. 429. 
(1846) G. R. Gray; Gen. of Birds, II. p.429. 
(1852) Strickl. & Sclat. Contr. Oru. p. 155. 
(1863) Goff. ; Mus. P. B. Buce. p. 7. 
P. sexibus similibus : minor 
rostro nigro : fronte coccinea : occipite nigro : gutture, pectoreque medio nigris. 
Hab. in Africa occidentali et septentrional! 
Sexes alike ; forehead and top of the head crimson ; upper plumage, a broad line down 
the side of the head and neck, throat and the middle of the breast black ; a broad stripe 
above the eye sulphur-yellow, shading into white down the sides of the occiput and neck ; 
back and wing-coverts irregularly striped with bright yellow, the rump being almost entirely 
of that colour; the feathers of the shoulders broadly edged with white; quills and tail 
brown, exterior web narrowly bordered with bright yellow ; a large oval moustachial spot 
and the under surface white; irides brown; bill and feet black. Length 6", wing 3"-6, 
tail 2"'8. 
II ah. Cape Colony ( Layard ); Kaffraria ( V err eaux ) ; Transvaal [Ayres)', Damaraland 
(Andersson ) ; Ondonga ( Andersson ) ; Benguela ( Monteiro ). 
Additional references. — Bucco niger: Lath. (1790), Ind. Orn. p. 204; Vieill. (1816), N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. III. 
p. 242. Laimodon leucomelas: Layard (1867), B. of S. Afr. p. 232, no. 463, Laimodon unidentatus: Bp. (1854), 
Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 12; Verr. (1859), P. Z. S. p. 395; Layard (1867), B. of S. Africa, p. 233, no. 464. Pogonias 
leucomelas : Mont. (1865), P. Z. S. p. 95. Le Barbu a gorge noire : Vieill. (1816), N. D. d’Hist, Nat. p. 242. Pogonias 
niger: Wagler (1827), Syst. Av. no. 6. Pogonorhynclms leucomelas: Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 3 ; 
Sharpe (1871), Cat. Afr. B. p. 15. 
