THE IBIS. 
FIFTH SERIES. 
No. XIV. APRIL 1886. 
XIV.— On a new Species of Barbet of the Genus 
Trachyphonus. By Dr. G. Hartlaub. 
(Plate V.) 
When I read the description of Trachyphonus erythro- 
cephalus in Capt. Shelley's paper on the Birds of Somali¬ 
land (Ibis, 1885, p. 394), I came to the conclusion that 
the Somali bird did not belong to that species. Capt. Shelley 
having kindly lent me one of the specimens, I have been 
able to compare it with the type of Tv. erythrocephalus in 
the Berlin Museum; and finding my suspicions justified, I 
now propose to describe the Somali bird as 
Trachyphonus shelleyi, nov. sp. (Plate V.) 
Pileo subcristato nitide nigro, nitore nonnullo chalybeo, 
plumulis ex aurantiaco miniatis, macula minuta nigra 
terminatis, postice circumdato; gutture et capitis late- 
ribus necnon superciliis flavis; regione malari et parotica 
diffuse coccinea, macula minore sericeo-alba; nuchse 
plumulis flavis, macula apicali nigra; gutturis nota 
subangusta, longitudinali, irregulari, nigra; fascia infra- 
gutturali baud circumscripta, dilute ex aurantiaco 
rubente, infra plumis nigris albo-guttatis marginata ; 
interscapulio, dorso, alarum tectricibus scapularibusque 
in fundo nigro maculis subtriangularibus albis, distincte 
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