OGONORHYNCHUS UNDATUS
POGONORHYNCHUS UNDATUS.
( T H E U N D U L A T E D B A R B E T .)
Pogonias undatus (1835) Ruppell; Neue Wirb. Taf. 20. fig. 2.
Laimodon undatus (1846) Gray; Gen. of B. p. 429.
Pogonorhynchus undatus (1863) Goffin; Mus. Pays Bas, Bucc. p. S.
„ „ (1868) Gray; Cat. Brit. Mus. Capit. p. 3.
„ (1870) Blanford; Geol. and Zool. Abyss, p. 310.
„ (1870) Finsch; Trans. Zool. Soc. VII. p. 282.
. . . . . . . (1870) Gray; Hand-1. ofB. II. p. 173.
„ (1871) Sharpe; Cat. Afr. B. p. 15.
P. minor: rostro nigro : fronte coccincä: pectore flavicante, brunneo maculato.
Hab. in Abyssinia.
Forehead and top of the head vermilion; occiput, nape, and sides of the head black,
the latter being irregularly spotted with white; throat black; a stripe commencing behind
the eye, and extending down the side of the neck, snow-white; upper plumage brownish
black, variegated with white on the back and with sulphur-yellow on the rump and upper
tail-coverts; wings and tail pale brown, the exterior webs of the quills and tail being
narrowly edged with pale yellow; under surface pale yellowish in the centre and white at
the sides, thickly and irregularly spotted with brownish black; bill black; legs dusky;
iris pale greyish-yellow (Blanford); iris white (Jesse). Wing 3", tail 2".
Hab. Abyssinia and Senaar (Ruppell, Heuglin); Bogos Country (Blanford, Jesse).
The Plate and description have both been taken from the specimen in the British
Museum, which is the only one that we have seen. It was obtained from the Frankfort
Museum. It is evidently a bird in immature plumage, and may possibly turn out to be the
young of P. ahjssinicus; but as that point cannot be settled without a larger series, the
colouring being very distinct, and the species having been accepted by most of the authorities
on the Abyssinian avifauna, we have retained the name and figured it in a separate Plate.