BARBATULA LEUCOLAIMA. 
(THE WHIT E-T HROATED B A R B E T.) 
Barbatula leucolaima (1851) Yerr. ; Rev. et Mag. de Zool. p. 202. 
Megalcema leucolaima ....... (1863) Goff. ; Mus. Pays Bas, Bucc. p. 46. 
B. sexilras similibus : supra nitide nigra : uropygio sulpbureo : alaribus sulpbureo marginatis. 
llab. in Africa occidentali. 
Sexes alike; lores and a line extending below the eyes and one above them down 
the sides of the neck snow-white; upper plumage shining blue-black; rump and upper 
tail-coverts bright sulphur-yellow ; wings and tail dull black, all the feathers, including 
those of the coverts, being edged with sulphur-yellow ; throat and upper breast and under 
surface of the body generally pale lemon-yellow; bill black; irides dark brown; legs 
and feet lead-colour. Wing 2-0, tail 12. 
The young bird has the yellow of the under surface washed with cindery grey. 
Hab. West Africa : Senegal ( Verreaux) ; Gold Coast ( Nagtglas ) ; Fantee ( Sharpe ) ; 
Gaboon (Verreaux). 
The present species is very nearly allied to Barbatula subsulgghurea, the sole difference 
being in the colour of the rump and the edges of the wing-feathers— the former bird having 
these sulphur-yellow, and the latter golden-yellow. 
It appears to be a common bird in the Fantee and Gaboon countries, as numerous 
specimens have been received from these localities by Mr. R. B. Sharpe. 
Additional references.-— Barbatula leucolcema: Strickl. (1851), Contr. Orn. p. 135; Bonap. (1854), Consp. Yol. 
Zyg. p. 12 ; Hartl. (1857), Syst. Orn. AVestafr. p. 173 ; Yerreaux (1859), P. Z. S. p. 398 ; Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. 
Mus. Capit. p. 15 ; Sharpe (1869), Ibis, p. 193; Gray (1870), Hand-1, of B. II. p. 176. 
