POGONORHYNCHUS MELANOPTERÜS.
( T H E W H I T E - B E L L I E D B A R B E T .)
Pogonias melanopterus
Laimodon albiventris
Pogonorhynchus melanopterus
(1854) Peters; Ber. Akad. Berl. p. 134.
(1859) Verr.; P.Z.S. pp. 393, 395, pi. 157.
(1863) Goffin; Cat. Mus. Pays Bas, Bucc. p. 6.
i Gray; Cat. Brit. Mus. Capitonida;, p. 3.
V. d. Decken; Eeisen in Ost-Afrika, p.
(1870) Finsch & Hartl.; Orn. Ost-Afr. p. 504.
(1870) Gray; Hand-1. of B. LT. p. 173.
imilibus: major: rostro flaricante: fronte rubra : pectore brunneo.
Hab. in rcgione .ZEthiopica.
Head and neck red; the base of the feathers black from the crown down t o the top
of the back; the latter as well as the rest of the upper parts, the fore part of the neck,
and chest earthy brown, deeper in t h e centre of this last, nearly all the feathers of these
parts having their shafts of a white more or less p u r e ; an oblong white spot on the
centre of the rump; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts pure white; feathers of the flanks
rather long and slender; thighs brown, with the edges of the plumes of t h e same colour,
but purer; wings and tail black; the same white lines of the shafts are very conspicuous
on the wing-coverts as well as on the secondaries nearest the body; beak higher than
broad, with the upper mandible double-toothed, the base bluish, and furnished with
bristles directed forwards, the remainder of the bill dingy yellow; tarsi strongly scutellated
and, together with t h e toes, of a bluish colour; claws rather hooked, brown; bastard
wing very short, the first, fifth, and sixth quills the longest; secondaries equal in length;
their inferior coverts and the inner webs of the quills white; tail rounded. Total length
16 cent. 7 mill., length of wing when closed 8 cent. 5 mill., tail 7 cent., beak from the
angle of t h e mouth 2 cent. 7 mill., tarsi 2 mill.
Hab. West Africa (Verreaux). East Africa: Mozambique Mombas (Von der