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POGONORHYNCHUS TORQUATUS.
( T H E B L A C K - C O L L A R E D B A R B E T.)
Buceo torquatus .
Pogonias nigrithorax .
„ personatus .
Buceo nigrithorax
Laimodon nigrithorax
„ nigrothora.v
Pogonorhynchus torquah
,, nigrithorax
(1806) Dum.; Diet. Sei. Nat. IV. p. 56.
(1817) CUY. ; Eégn. An. I. App. p. 428.
(1823) Temm.; PI. Col. pi. 201.
(1829) Cuv.; Eégn. An. p. 457.
(1846) G. 11. Gray; Gen. of Birds, II. p. 428.
(1862) Gurney; Ibis, IV. p. 32.
(1863) Goff.; Mus. Pays Bas, Bucc. p. 4.
(1864) Kirk; Ibis, VI. p. 328.
P. minor, rostro nigro, capite toto gutturcque coccineis: dorso cinerascenti-fusco, sulpbureo lavato.
Hab. in Africa meridionali.
Sexes alike; forehead, top of the head, sides of the face, and throat scarlet; occiput,
nape, and a broad band, bordering the red and meeting on the breast so as to form a
pectoral gorget,.shining black; back, shoulders, and wing-coverts light ashy brown washed
with sulphur-yellow, and finely mottled; wings and tail dark brown, inner webs of the quills
pale yellowish at their base; exterior web of the secondaries and tertiaries edged with
sulphur-yellow; under surface greyish white, washed with sulphur-yellow; bill black;
irides bright rufous-brown; legs and feet brown (Aprs), black (Temminck); length 6"-5,
wing 3"-7, tail 2"-6 (Layard).
Hab. Valleys of the Zambesi (Kirk); Natal (Ayres); Central Africa (Burchell);
Kaffraria (Verreaux); Highlands near Graham's Town, Cape of Good Hope (Layard);
Uzarano (Speke & Grant).
Additional references.—Bucco torquatus: Cuvier (1829), Itegn. An. p. 457. Pogonias 2>ersonatus: Lesson (1831),
Trait. d'Orn. p. 160; Wagl. (1827), Syst. Av. spec. 3 ; Cuvier (1829), Itegn. An. p. 457. Laimodon nigrithorax:
Bonaparte (1854), Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 12; Verreaux (1859), P. Z. S. p. 395; Layard (1867), Birds of S. Afr.
p. 233. Lannodon nigritltorax: Layard (1869), Ibis, p. 373. Pogonorhgnchus torquatus: Sclater (1864), P. Z. S.
p. 112; G. R. Gray (1868), Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 2 ; Cab. (1870) in Van der Decken, Reisen in Ost-Afrik. III.
p. 503.