BARBATTJLA PUSILLA. 
(THE Df AEP BAEBET.) 
Le Barbion ....... 
Bueno pusillus ....... 
Le Cabezon Barbion ...... 
Bunco rubrifrons ...... 
Le petit Barbion ...... 
Bunco barbatula ...... 
,, chrysoptera ...... 
Barbatula parvus ...... 
„ pusilla ...... 
Megalaima parva ...... 
„ barbatula ...... 
Barbatula minuta ...... 
Megalaima pusilla ...... 
Megalcema pusilla ...... 
B. sexibus similibus : supra nigra flavo striata : capite 
(1806) Levaill. ; Barbus, pi. 32. 
(1806) Dum. ; Diet. Sei. Nat. 1st ed. IY. p. 50. 
(1816) Vieill. ; N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. p. 497. 
(1816) "Vieill. ; N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. p. 497. 
(1816) Yieill. ; N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. p. 499. 
(1832) Temm. ; PI. Col. sp. 18, 19. 
(1837) Swains. ; An. in Menag. p. 322. 
(1841) Hartl. ; Rev. Zool. p. 337. 
(1841) Hartl. ; Rev. Zool. p. 337. 
(1846) Gray ; Gen. of B. II. p. 430. 
(1846) Gray; Gen. of B. II. p. 430. 
(1850) Bonap. ; Consp. Gen. Av. p. 144. 
(1863) Goflin ; Mus. Pays Bas, Buce. p. 40. 
(1870) Pinsch; Trans. Zool. Soc. VII. p. 282. 
summo rubro. 
Hah. in regione iEthiopica. 
Sexes alike ; a narrow frontal band black ; top of the head bright red ; upper plumage 
black, variegated longitudinally with sulphur-yellow ; upper tail-coverts entirely of that 
colour ; wings and tail earthy brown ; lesser wing-coverts broadly bordered with golden ; 
greater wing-coverts and quills edged with the same colour, shading into creamy white 
on the tertiaries, inner webs at the base pale yellow ; tail narrowly edged with sulphur- 
yellow ; under surface greenish yellow ; throat and under tail-coverts lemon-yellow ; bill 
black ; legs and feet dark greenish ; irides dark brown. Length 4"-6, wing 2" '4, tail 1"'2. 
Hab. N.-E. Africa : banks of the Blue Nile ( Von Heuglin ); Bogos Land ( Jesse ); near 
Senafe ( Blanford ). South Africa (Layard) ; Natal (Ayres). 
Additional references. — Bunco parvus : Cuv. (1817), Regn. Anim. I. p. 428. Barbatula pusilla : Bonap. Consp. 
Vol. Zyg. p. 12 ; Yerr. (1859), P. Z. S. p. 399 ; Hcugl. (1861), Ibis, p. 124 ; Blanf. (1870), Geol. & Zool. of Abyss, 
p. 311 ; Sbarpe (1871), Cat. Afr. B. p. 16. Barbatula minuta : Bonap. (1854), Consp. Yol. Zyg. p. 12 ; Hartl. 
(1857), Syst. Om. Westafr. p. 173 ; Gumey (1864), Ibis, p. 353. Megalaima pusilla : Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. 
Capit. p. 14 ; id. (1870), Hand-1, of B. II. p. 176. Megalcema barbatula : Layard (1867), B. of S. Afr. p. 234 ; id. 
(1869), Ibis, p. 372. Megalcema pusilla : Heugl. (1871), Orn. N.-O.-Afr. I. p. 762. 
