HAIRY-BREASTED POGONIAS. 
Pogonias hirsutus , Swains. 
Above brown, spotted with sulphur-yellow ; beneath sul- 
phureous with black spots ; head and chin black ; feathers 
of the breast lengthened, and ending in long setaceous hairs. 
Pogonias hirsutus, Sw. Zool. Illnst. vol. ii. pi. 72.— Pogonias 
hirsutus, Systema Av. No. 7. 
Never having seen more than one specimen of this 
extraordinary bird, and which, moreover, seems to 
be unknown to all the modem writers, except from 
our original description, we must be content with 
referring to our former notes, and to the figure we 
have already given of it on the 72d plate of the First 
Series of Zoological Illustrations. The specimen in 
question was sent (we believe with the last species) 
from Sierra Leone. 
Total length a little more than seven inches ; 
head, neck, chin, and part of the throat, deep black, 
relieved by a short white stripe just behind the eye, 
and another which forms a maxillary stripe, begin- 
ing at the base of the under mandible, and extend- 
ing half way down the side of the neck. The black 
colour of the head changes on the upper plumage to 
a dark brown, which spreads over the wings and 
