BARBATULA SUBSULPHURE A. 
(THE YELLOW-BELLIED BARBET.) 
Bucco subsulphureus (1843) Fraser ; P. Z. S. p. 3. 
Capito ? subsulphureus ....... (1846) Gray ; Gen. of B. II. p. 430. 
Barbatula flavimentum (1851) Yerr. ; Bey. et Mag. de Zool. p. 262. 
„ subsulphurea (1851) Striokl. ; Contr. to Orn. p. 131. 
Trachyphonus subsulphureus (1854) Bonap. ; Consp. Yol. Zyg. p. 12. 
Megalaima subsulphurea (1863) Goffin; Mus. Pays Bas, Bucc. p. 44. 
Megalama subsulphurea (1871) Heugl. ; Orn. 3ST.-0.-Afr. p. 763, Anm. 
B. minor : sexibus similibus : uropygio aurantiaco : alaribus aurantiaco marginatis. 
Hab. in Africa occidental!. 
Sexes alike : lores, a line extending below the eyes, and one above them down the sides 
of the neck yellowish white (pure white in some specimens) ; upper plumage shining blue- 
black ; wings and tail dull black ; rump and edges of the feathers of the quills, wing-coverts, 
and tail rich golden-yellow ; throat white ; under surface pale yellow ; bill black ; irides 
brown; legs and feet lead-coloured. Length 3"-75, wing 2", tail l"-35. 
The young bird has the under surface dirty greenish yellow. 
Hab. West Africa: Fernando Po (Fraser) ; Gaboon ( Gujon ); banks of the Moonda 
river (DuChaillu); Fantee (Sharpe)-, river Volta ( TJssher ); Aguapim (Eiis). 
This species has for its distinctive characteristic the rump and edges of the wing- and 
tail-feathers golden-yellow ; this colouring separates it from B. Ulineata and B. subsulphurea, 
to which it is closely allied. 
The Yellow-bellied Barbet was first described by Mr. Fraser, who gives the following- 
account in a paper laid before the Zoological Society in 1843 : — 
“ Irides hazel ; bill black ; legs deep lead-colour. This bird is like a Nuthatch in its 
Additional references. — Bucco subsulphureus-. Fraser (1843), Zool. Typ. pi. 52. Barbatula flavimentum : 
Strickl. (1851), Contr. Orn. p. 162. Barbatula subsulfurea: Hartl. (1854), J. f. 0. p. 195, no. 408; id. (1857), 
Syst. Orn. Westafr. p. 172 ; Yerr. (1859), P. Z. S. p. 398 ; Sharpe (1871), Cat. Afr. B. p. 16. Megalaima subsul- 
phurea : Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 15, et (1871) Hand-1, of B. II. p. 176. 
