Dr. G. Hartlaub on a new Barbet. 
Ill 
which there are only irregular traces in Tr. arnaudi ; and 4, 
the infra-pectoral fascia formed by black feathers with a large 
white spot at the tip, so conspicuous in Tr. boehmi, is 
but feebly and most irregularly indicated in Tr. arnaudi . 
5. Trachyphonus versicolor. 
Tr. versicolor, Hartl. Zweit. Beitr. Orn. ostl. Aequat. 
Africa, in Abhandl. naturw. Yer. Bremen, vii. p. 208; id. 
Ornith. Centr. Bl. 1882, p. 91 ; id. Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1882, 
p. 326. 
Tarrangole : Emin Bey. 
Very fine and adult specimens of both sexes are in the 
Bremen collection. They are as yet the only ones known. 
Tarrangole is a station on the Chor Kohs in Lattuka, 
4° 28' N. lat. 
Diagn. —Yalde affinis Tr. erythrocephalo , sed diversus statura 
multo majore (240 mill.!), rubedine capitis multo minus 
extensa et subcaudalibus pallide et pure flavis. 
In th q female of this species the black crown of the head 
and the black longitudinal guttural stripe are wanting, the 
feathers of the crown being pale reddish with black bar-like 
spots; nape more intensely spotted with red and black; the 
red colour of the sides of the head a little more extended 
than in the male; the bars of the tail somewhat narrower. 
6. Trachyphonus erythrocephalus. 
Tr. erythrocephalus , Cab. Journ. £ Orn. 1878, pp. 206, 
218, 240, pi. 2. figs. 1 and 2. 
Kitui (Ukamba, East. Afr.), 2°-3° S. lat., Hildebrand. 
Adult specimens of both sexes and young birds are in 
the Berlin Museum. 
7. Trachyphonus shelleyi, Hartl. 
The high plateau of the interior of the Somali country : 
Lort Phillips. 
b. Two species : supra concolores. 
8. Trachyphonus purpuratus. 
Tr. purpuratus, J. Verreaux, Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1851, 
p. 260; Strickl. Contrib. to Orn. 1851, p. 135; Hartl. Syst. 
Orn. Westafr. p. 175; Marsh. Monogr. p. 151, pi. 68. 
