STACTOLJEMA ANCHIETA.
( T H E YELLOW-FACED BARBET.)
Buccanodon anchieta . . . . (1869) Barboza du Bocage P.Z.S. p. 436 & Plate XXIX.
Stactolama anchieta . . . . (1870) C. and G. Marshall P.Z.S. p. 118 & fig. 1, p. 119.
S. brunneo-rufescens: capite guttureque sulphureis : occipite et pectore sulphureo etriatis.
Hob. in provincia\ Angolensi Africa? occidentalis.
General plumage reddish brown, forehead incipient, throat and a spot at the base of the
lower mandible sulphur-yellow, occiput, nape, and sides of the neck and breast shining black,
the former covered with numerous small spots and the latter with longitudinal streaks of
sulphur-yellow, a supercilliary eye-stripe, cheeks, and ear-coverts white, primaries and tail
brownish black, secondaries with the exterior web edged with greyish white, under wingcoverts,
lower belly and under tail-coverts white, tail underneath ashy grey, irides reddish
brown ; bill, legs and feet black.
Habitat. Angola : Caconda (Anchieta).
This species is the latest addition to the African Ca,pitonido3, and is interesting from
the striking difference which it exhibits from the other known genera. It is to be hoped
that before long we may obtain more information as to its habits and indifieation from some
of the energetic field Naturalists who are collecting in Western Africa. As yet even the
female is unknown, and the following note by Professor Barboza de Bocage in the " Proceedings
of the Zoological Society for 1869," is all that has yet been recorded about it:—
" Four males from Caconda. It is the second species known of the genus Buccanodon.