MATLAB: Strange symbol instead of legend color

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I am plotting a bar graph but it shows strange symbol instead of legend color.(All legend with title scoliosis)
model_series =[6.8340    6.9400    7.9567    8.0590    8.6337    8.4850    9.6813    9.6110
    6.9900    7.3850    8.1000    7.9670    8.9988    8.8450    9.8800    9.2950
    7.3859    7.6550    8.6808    8.4840    9.1937    9.1640   10.4041    9.7670
    7.7200    8.3900    9.2600    8.9650    9.8925   10.0510   11.2875   10.9370
    8.4460    8.5537    9.6750    9.5830   10.7713   10.8390   12.0888   11.7120];
model_error= [0.3658    0.5786    0.3906    0.5330    0.3863    0.6931    0.3600    0.5593
    0.4482    0.9325    0.5073    0.3567    0.4530    0.4624    0.3595    0.7508
    0.4261    0.7700    0.4834    0.2987    0.5723    0.5778    0.3924    0.8415
    0.2262    0.9505    0.3509    0.5372    0.3625    0.5791    0.3269    0.8313
    0.2159    0.7532    0.4219    0.3150    0.4645    0.5528    0.2776    0.8970];
colorList = [0 0.45 0.74;0.85 0.33 0.1;0.93 0.69 0.13;0.49 0.18 0.56;0.47 0.67 0.19;0.3 0.75 0.93; 0.64 0.08 0.18;0.72 0.27 1];
offset = 1;
skip = 1;
figure
xlim([0 14])
hold on
xloc = 0;
for i = 1:size(model_series,1)
    for j = 1:size(model_series,2)
        xloc = xloc + offset;
        barh(xloc,model_series(i,j),1,'FaceColor',colorList(j,:))
        errorbar(model_series(i,j),xloc,model_error(i,j),'k','Horizontal','LineWidth',1.3)
    end
xloc = xloc + skip;
end
set(gca,'yTick',[4.5 13.5 22.5 31.5 40.5])
set(gca,'YTickLabel',{'T5','T6','T7','T8','T9'},'FontSize',19,'FontWeight','bold')
% X and Y labels
ylabel ('Thoracic Spine Level','FontSize',19,'FontWeight','bold');
xlabel ('Right Vertebral Body Height (mm)','FontSize',19,'FontWeight','bold');
% Creating a legend and placing it outside the bar plot
lg = legend('Normal 7wks','Scoliotic 7wks',....
    'Normal 11wks','Scoliotic 11wks', 'Normal 14wks','Scoliotic 14wks', ...
    'Normal 28wks','Scoliotic 28wks','AutoUpdate','off');
lg.Location = 'westoutside';
lg.Orientation = 'Horizontal'; lg.FontSize=10;
Legend_Figure.jpg

Best Answer

The strange lines in the legend are the legend entries for the errorbar()
If you only want the bar() call to be legend'd then record the handles of the bar() and pass them to legend()
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