POGONORHYNCHUS LEUCOMELAS
POGONORHYNCHUS LEUCOMELAS.
( T H E P I E D B A R B E T .)
Le Barbu du Cap de l'espérance (1783) Buff. ; Pl. Eul. Vol. VII. pl. 688. f. 1.
Le Barbu à plastron noir (1783) Buff. ; Pl. Enl. Vol. VII. pl. 688. f. 1.
Bucco leucomelas (1783) Bodd. ; Tabl. dos Pl. Enl. 688.
Bucco niger (1788) Gmel. ; Syst. Nat. p. 407.
Le Barbu à gorge noire (1806) LevaiU. ; Barbus, pis. 29, 30, 31.
Bucco rufifrons (1815) Steph. ; Gen. Zool. IX. pt. I . p. 31.
Pogonia stephensi (1815) Leach ; Zool. Misc. I I . 1.116.
Pogonias niger . . . . . . . . (1829) Cuv. ; Règn. An. p. 457.
„ unidentatus (1842) Lient. ; Verz. Vôg. Kafferl. p. 17.
Laimodon leucomelas (1846) G. E . Gray ; Gen. of Birds, IL p. 429.
„ unidentatus . (1846) G. E. Gray ; Gen. of Birds, II. p. 429.
Pogonias leucomelas (1852) Striekl. & Sclat. Contr. Orn. p. 155.
Pogonorhynclius leucomelas . . . . . . (1863) Goff. ; Mus. P. B. Buce. p. 7.
P. sexibus similibus : minor : rostro nigro : fronto coceineâ : occipite nigro : gutturc, peetoreque medio nigris.
Hob. in Africa occidentali et septentrional!
Sexes alike ; forehead and top of the head crimson ; upper plumage, a broad Hue down
the side of the head and neck, throat and the middle of the breast black ; a broad stripe
above the eye sulphur-yellow, shading into white down the sides of the occiput and neck ;
back and wing-coverts irregularly striped with bright yellow, the rump being almost entirely
of that colour; the feathers of the shoulders broadly edged with white; quills and tail
brown, exterior web narrowly bordered with bright yellow ; a large oval moustachial spot
and the under surface white; hides brown; bill and feet black. Length 6", wing 3"-6,
tail 2"-8.
Hab. Cape Colony (Layard); Kaffraria (Verream); Transvaal (Ay res); Damaraland
(Andersson) ; Ondonga (Andersson) ; Benguela (Monteiro).
Additional references.—Bucco niger: Lath. (1790), Ind. Orn. p. 2 0 4 ; Vieill. (1816), N. Diet. d'Hist, Nat. III.
p. 242. Laimodon leucomelas: Layard (1867), B. of S. Afr. p. 232, no. 463. Laimodon unidentatus: Bp. (1854),
Consp. Vol. Zyg. p. 1 2 ; Verr. (1859), P. Z. S. p. 3 9 5 ; Layard (1867), B. of S. Africa, p. 233, no. 464. Pogonias
leucomelas: Mont. (1865), P. Z. S. p. 95. Le Barbu ä gorge noire: Vieill. (1816), N. D. d'Hist. Nat. p. 242. Pogonias
niger: Wagler (1827), Syst. Av. no. 6. Pogonorhynclius leucomelas: Gray (186S), Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 3 :
Sharpe (1871), Cat. Afr. B. p. 15.