POGONORHYNCHUS MELANOCEPHALUS. 
(THE ABYSSINIAN BAEBET.) 
Pogonias melanocephalus . 
„ bifrenatus . 
„ melanocephalus . 
Laimodon bifrenatus . 
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Pogonias bifrenatus . 
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Laimodon bifrenatus . 
Lcemodon melanocephalus . 
Pogonorhynchus bifrenatus . 
„ melanocephalus 
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(1827) Riipp. ; Atl. t. 28. fig. a, p. 41. 
(1828) Ehrenb. ; Symb. Phys. t. 8. fig. 2. 
(1852) Selat. ; Contr. Ornith. p. 126. 
(1846) Gray ; Gen. of B. II. p. 429. 
(1854) Bonap. ; Consp. Yol. Zyg. p. 12. 
(1854) Hartl. ; Journ. f. Orn. p. 197. 
(1857) Hartl. ; Syst. Orn. IV. Afr. p. 171. 
(1859) Yerr. ; P. Z. S. p. 396. 
(1859) Heugl. ; Ibis, p. 343. 
(1861) Heugl. ; Ibis, p. 124. 
(1863) Goffin ; Hus. P.-B. Bucc. p. 10. 
(1868) Gray ; Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 4. 
P. sesibus similibus : minor : rostro nigro : capite guttureque nigris. 
Bab. in Africa. 
Sexes alike ; head, neck, throat, and centre of breast black ; a narrow stripe over the 
eye, extending down the sides of the neck, and a moustachial streak snow-white; upper 
plumage dark brown, irregularly striped with sulphur-yellow, more so on the rump ; 
exterior webs of the greater wing-coverts, quills, and tail bordered with the same colour ; 
the tertiaries have the exterior webs margined with white ; under surface white ; the 
black of the throat comes down to a point on the breast, and some of the feathers have 
the shafts extended slightly beyond the webs ; bill, legs, and feet black ; wing 2"*65, 
tail 1"'75 in dried specimens. 
Bab. Abyssinia ( JRuppell , Beuglin) ; Angola ( Henderson ). 
This species was first described by Riippell in 1827. In general plumage it is similar 
