SALT’S, OR BLACK-BODIED BARBUT. 
Pogonias Saltii, Swains. 
Body, above and beneath, glossy black ; front, sides of the 
head, throat, and breast, crimson ; wings brown ; the covers 
margined with white, the quills with yellow. 
BuccoSalti, Earl Derby in Salt's Travels, App. 46, 54 Bucco 
Salti, Lath. Gen. Hist. iii. '258 Pogonias rubrifrons, Zool. 
Illust., 2d scries, pi. 68; Sysl. Avium Pogonias, No. 4. 
The late Mr. Salt, while prosecuting his valuable re- 
searches among the antiquities of Egypt and its 
neighbouring countries, paid much attention to col- 
lecting materials for illustrating their natural his- 
tory; and although the results have not been attended 
■with that advantage to science that might have been 
expected, his name well deserves to be enrolled 
among those who have benefited ornithology*. Im- 
pressed with this conviction, we cheerfully renounce 
our former designation of this species of Barbut, in 
order that it may be consecrated to him who was 
probably its first discoverer. An attempt has been 
made, indeed, to substitute a third specific name, 
by an author quite ignorant of the above facts ; 
* This has originated from nearly all the species having 
been placed by Dr. Latham, to whom they were sent, under 
the old genera, where they are now as good as lost. 
