TRACHYPHONUS CAFE R.
( L E YAILLANT'S BARBET.)
Le Proniepic
PICK* cafer
Cucupicus cafer
Trachyphonus cafer
Ciqiito cafer
Trachyphonus VaiUanlii
Capito VaiUanlii
Micropogon sulphuratus
Pollystictice quopopa
(1807) Le Vaill. Prom. p. 77, t, 32.
(1818) Yieill. N. Diet. XXVI, p. 102.
(1828) Less. Man. d'Orn. II, p. 116.
(1854) Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 12.
(1862) Goff. in Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Buceones, p.
(1821) Eanz. Elem. di Zool. Ucc. pt. I I , p. 159.
(1841) Gray, List of Gen. of B. p. 69.
(1836) Lafr. Mag. de Zool. pi. 60.
;1836) Smith, Rep. Exp. Expl. Centr. Afr. p. 40.
Tr. crista occipitali nigra magna: dorso nigro.
Hub. in Africa meridional!.
Entire head brilliant chrome yellow, each feather edged with crimson at the tip, this
latter colour predominating on the cheeks; back of the head, nape, and a large occipital
crest glossy blue-black; a spot on the ear-coverts black tipped witli white; upper part of
the back, scapulars and wing-coverts glossy blue-black banded with pure w h i t e ; lower part
of the back and rump black washed with rich chrome-yellow, this colour alone shewing on
the rump ; upper tail-coverts rich crimson; quills brownish-black, grey at the base of the
inner web, the outer web spotted with white ; tail black, in some lights appearing very distinctly
barred, all the feathers broadly tipped and sparsely spotted with white ; chin white ;
throat chrome tipped with crimson, and shading into beautiful lilac on the breast; a band
of black across the upper part of the breast with a few spots of lilac ; rest of the breast
white, passing on the lower part into chrome streaked with crimson ; flanks and abdomen
chronic; bill pale green, blackish at the t i p ; legs and feet dull brown; orbital skin blackish.
Additional references.— Trachyphonus cafer, Verr. P.Z.S. 1859, p. 399 ; Newton, Ibis, 1868, p. 298 ; Gray.
Cat. Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 17; Bocage. Jom. Acad. Lisb. 1869, p. 349. Capito VaiUantii, Layard, B. of S. Afr.
p. 235 (1867).