POQONORYNCHÏÏS DUBIUS.
( T H E GROVE-BILLED BARBET.)
Le Barbican des cotes de Barbarie
Doubtful Barbet
Bucco dubius
Pogonias did>ius
Pogonorynchus dubius
Laimodon dubius .
Pogonias dubius
Pogonias sulcirostris
Pogonia erythromclas
Pogonias major
Le barbican
(c. 1 7 8 0 ) Buff. P I . Enl. 6 0 2 .
( 1 7 8 2 ) Lath. Syn. I, pt. 2 , p. 5 0 6 .
( 1 7 8 8 ) Gm. Syst. Nat. I, p. 1 0 9 .
( 1 8 1 1 ) Illig. Prod. Mamm. et Av. p. 2 0 2 .
( 1 8 3 5 ) Van der Hoev. Handb. II, p. 4 6 1 .
( 1 8 4 1 ) Gray, List of Gen. of B. p. 6 9 .
( 1 8 5 4 ) Bonap. Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 1 2 .
( 1 8 1 5 ) Leach, Zool. Misc. pi. 7 6 .
( 1 8 1 6 ) Vieill. Nouv. Diet. I EI, p. 2 3 6 .
( 1 8 1 7 ) CUT. Regne Anim. I, p. 4 2 8 .
( 1 8 0 6 ) Le Vaill. Barbus, pi. 1 8 .
P. sexibus simillibus : supra niger : dorso-imo albo: gutture coccíneo: pectore nigro : mandíbula valde sulcata
setis rictalibus fortissimis.
Hah. in Africa occidentali.
Above deep blue-black; lores tipped with crimson; wing-coverts also sparsely
margined with crimson; quills brown, pale yellow at the base of the inner web,
secondaries washed with blue-black ; middle of the back white ; tail black, more glossy on
the upper surface ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and entire throat rich crimson ; below the throat a
broad pectoral band of deep blue-black ; a patch of silky feathers on each side of the body
yellowish white, with t i n y spots of black ; centre of the breast and abdomen crimson tinged
with yellow ; flanks and under tail-coverts deep blue-black ; bill yellow, shading into red at
the base, and white at the tip ; orbital skin orange ; legs and feet yellow tinged with rufous.
Total length about 9 inches, wing from 4'25 to 4*5, tail 3*75, tarsus 1*0.
Additional references.—Pogonias dubius. Hartl. Orn. "Westafr. p. 169 (1857), Verr. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 393.
Pogonorynchus dubius, G off. in Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, Buccones, p. I (1862). Pogonias sulcirostris, Swains. B.
of W. Afr. II, p. 166 (1837). Pogonias major, Less. Traité d'Orn. 159.