B A R B A T U L A S U B S U L P H U R E A.
B . L E U C O L J E MA
B A R B A T U L A SUBSULPHUREA.
( T H E Y E L L O W - B E L L I E D B A R B E T .)
Buceo subsulpliureus (1843) Fraser ; P. Z. S. p. 3 .
Capitol subsulpliureus . • (1846) Gray ; Gen. of B. II. p. 430.
Barbatula flavimentum (1851) Verr.; Rev. et Mag. de Zool. p. 262.
subsulphurea (1851) Strickl.; Contr. to Orn. p. 131.
Trachyphonus subsulpliureus (1854) Bonap.; Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 12.
Megalaima subsulphurea (1863) Goffin; Mus. Pays Bas, Bucc. p. 44.
Megalaima subsulphurea . . . . . . (1871) Heugl.; Orn. N.-O.-Afr. p. 763, Anm.
B. minor : sexibus similibus: uropygio aurantiaco: alaribus aurantiaco marginatis.
Hub. in Africa occidentals
Sexes a l i k e : lores, a line extending below the eyes, and one above them down the sides
of t h e neck yellowish white (pure white in some specimens); upper plumage shining blueblack
; wings and tail dull black ; rump and edges of the feathers of the quills, wing-coverts,
and tail rich golden-yellow; throat white; under surface pale yellow; bill black; hides
brown; legs and feet lead-coloured. Length 3"-7o, wing 2", tail l"-35.
The young bird has the under surface dirty greenish yellow.
Hah. West Africa: Fernando Po (Fraser); Gaboon (Gujon); banks of the Moonda
river (Du Chaillu); Fantee (Sharpe); river Volta (JJssher); Aguapim (Bus).
This species has for its distinctive characteristic the rump and edges of the wing- and
tail-feathers golden-yellow; this colouring separates it from B. bilineata and B. subsulphurea,
to which it is closely allied.
The Yellow-bellied Barbet was first described by Mr. Fraser, who gives the following
account in a paper laid before the Zoological Society in 18-13 :—
•' Irides hazel; bill black; legs deep lead-colour. This bird is like a Nuthatch in its
Additional references.—Bucco subsulpliureus: Fraser (1843), Zool. Typ. pi. 52. Barbatula flavimentum:
Strickl. (1851), Contr. Orn. p. 162. Barbatula subsulfurea: Hard. (1854), J. f. 0. p. 195, no. 4 0 8 ; id. (1857),
Syst. Orn. Westafr. p. 172; Vcrr. (1859), P. Z. S. p. 398 ; Sharpe (1871), Cat. Afr. B. p. 16. Megalaima subsulphurea
: Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 15, ct (1871) Hand-1. of B. II. p. 170.