TRACHYPHONUS GOFFINI. 
(THE GLOSSY BARBET.) 
Capita goffini (1863) ScUegel; Mus. Pays Bas, Bucc. p. 72. 
Trachyphonus goffini (1868) G. B. Gr. Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 18. 
„ purpuratus ..... (1869) Sharpe; Ibis, p. 386. 
T. sexibus similibus : supra niger : uropygio sulphureo ruarginato : hypochondriis omnino sulphureis, 
immaculatis. 
Hah. in Africa occidentali. 
Sexes alike. Forehead, top of the head, cheeks, and sides of the neck dark crimson, 
occiput, nape, back and shoulders dull black, each feather broadly margined with metallic 
blue-black ; lesser wing-coverts pure white ; wings and tail brownish black ; rump, and 
upper tail-coverts, black, broadly edged, and mottled, with sulphur yellow ; ear-coverts and 
chin black ; throat, and upper breast black, the feathers, which have the webs divided at 
the tip, being broadly edged with purplish white, except the lowest row which are tipped 
with dark crimson, forming an indistinct band across the breast ; the rest of the under- 
surface is sulphur yellow, the base of the feathers grey. Beak yellow ; orbital skin black ; 
legs and feet dark plumbeous. Length 9", wing 4". 
Hah. Gold Coast (Nagtglas). Fantee, ( Ussher ; mus. R. B. Sharpe). 
This species was first separated from T. purpuratus by Professor Schlegel, and though 
nearly allied it has distinctive characteristic markings, which make it easy to distinguish 
it, at a glance, from the above mentioned species. The most noticeable of these differences 
are, the pure yellow under surface, and the yellow banded upper tail-coverts, as well as the 
black orbital skin. 
It is apparently a commoner bird that T. purpuratus. Mr. Sharpe has received a 
