TEACH YPHONU S PUEPURATIJS. 
(THE PURPLE BAR BET.) 
(1851) Yerr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. p. 260. 
(1851) Strickl. Contr. Om. p. 135. 
(1854) Bp. Consp. Voluer. Zyg. p. 12, sp. 24. 
(1854) Hartl. Journ. f. Orn. p. 195, No. 407. 
(1857) „ Syst. Om. West Afr. p. 175, No. 522. 
(1859) Yerr. P. Z. S. p. 399. 
(1861) Heugl. Ibis, p. 164. 
(1868) G. R. Gr. Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 18. 
(1863) Gofiin, Mus. Pays Bas. Bucc. p. 71. 
T. sexibus similibus : supra niger : uropygio omnino nigro : hypocbondriis nigris, sulpbureo punetatis. 
Hab. in provincia Gabonensi Africee occidentalis. 
Sexes alike ; forebead, top of the head, and a narrow stripe down each side ot the 
neck, dark crimson ; occiput, nape, back, and shoulders, dull black, broadly margined with 
metallic blue-black ; lesser wing-coverts pure white ; wings and tail, brownish black ; in 
some specimens a few of the feathers of the upper tail-coverts are narrowly pencilled at 
the tip with sulphur yellow; throat and upper breast, the feathers of which have a 
lanceolated appearance, the web being divided at the tip, black, with broad silver-grey tips ; 
below this is a narrow but distinct band of fiery red ; breast yellow ; flanks and the rest of 
the under-surface jet black, with large drops of yellow at the tips of the feathers. Beak 
yellow, orbital skin yellow, legs and feet dark plumbeous. Length 9", wing 4", tail 3."8, 
tarsus 1". 
Hab. Gaboon, near the Camma and Moonda rivers ( Duchaillu ). 
This species is nearly allied to T. goffi.ni, from which, however, it is not difficult to 
distinguish it, on account of its conspicuous black flanks, with round yellow spots and the 
naked yellow orbital skin. A further distinctive character is the fiery red band across the 
