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never seen a male, and which was received at the Academy in a very inte- 

 resting collection from Dr. MacDowall, in 1841. This bird seems to be most 

 nearly allied to C. brachijrhijncha (Swains.) also a West African species, of 

 which several specimens are in the Acad. Mus., from Mr. Duchaillu's collec- 

 tion, but it differs not only in having the upper plumage a darker and golden 

 green, and the tail clear lustrous black, but the under wing coverts are pale 

 buff or fawn color, without spots, instead of nearly white and spotted with 

 black, as in C. brachyrhyncha. It is also larger than that species. 



In colors and general appearance this bird bears a greater resemblance to 

 the American woodpeckers, of the genus Chloronerpes, Swainson, especially to 

 C. rubiginosus, Swain., than any other African species with which I am ac- 

 quainted. 



7. Chrysopicus Malherbei, nobis. 



Resembling C. notatus (Licht.) and C. cethiopicus (Hemp, et Ehrenb.) but 

 much smaller than the former and otherwise different from both. Head above 

 from base of bill to occiput, scarlet, back and upper wing coverts and rump 

 yellowish green, lighter on the back, with numerous, nearly circular and ob- 

 long spots of greenish white, exposed surface of shorter quills yellowish olive 

 green, tipped with yellowish white, (but without transverse bands,) primaries 

 dark brown, with small spots of yellowish white on their outer webs, and with 

 large spots of the same color on their inner webs. Sides of head and neck 

 and entire under parts of body pale yellowish white, with nearly circular 

 and oblong spots of black, larger on the breast and sides, smaller on the mid- 

 dle of the abdomen and under tail coverts. Tail yellowish brown, with the 

 shafts and tips of the feathers yellow, obscure transverse bands of a darker 

 shade of brown on the outer feathers, under surface of tail greenish yellow. 

 Under wing coverts pale yellowish white, with a few spots of black. Bill and 

 feet dark plumbeous. Male ? 



Total length about 6 inches, wing 3f , tail 21 inches. 

 Hab. Zanzibar. Spec, in Mus. Acad., Philada. 



A single specimen of this species is from the Massena Collection, and is la- 

 belled, "Zanzibar" in the same hand-writing as some other specimens from 

 the same locality. In general appearance this bird resembles the much 

 larger C. notatus (Licht.) Malh. Mon., pi. 95, figs. 4, 5, 6. from which it differs, 

 not only greatly in size, but in the color of the upper parts of the body, and in 

 having the clearly-defined white circular spots of the back and coverts as de- 

 scribed above. From C. nubicus (Gm.) Malh. Mon., pi. 93, figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 

 this bird differs also in size and in the colors of the upper parts. It appears 

 to be smaller also than C. cethiopicus (Hempr. & Ehrenb.) Malh. Mon., pi. 94, 

 figs. 1, 2, 3, Riipp., Syst. Ueb., pi. 36, but differs in the color and circular spots 

 of the upper parts, and has no transverse bands on the shorter quills nor tail 

 as represented in the figures of that species. In the present and only speci- 

 men, though the top of head and occiput are bright scarlet, there is no stripe 

 from the base of the under mandible or moustache of that color. 



Although the specimen now described does bear a considerable resemblance 

 to Picus notatus, Licht., which is expressly stated by Messrs. Hemprich and 

 Ehrenberg, in their description of Picus cethiopicus, to be the case also in that 

 species (Symbolse Physic*, Aves, pt. 1,) it is clearly not the bird described 

 by them nor that figured by M. Ruppell, Syst. Uebers, pi. 36. P. cethiopicus 

 is regarded by M. Malherbe as identical with P. nubicus, Boddaert, very prob- 

 ably correctly, to which the present bird bears some resemblance also, but not 

 in so great a degree as to P. notatus. 



This species I have taken the liberty of dedicating to the distinguished 

 author of the " Monographie des Picid^es." 



8. Picps scintilliceps, Swinhoe. 



Picus scintilliceps, Swinh., Sclater's Ibis, 1863, p. 96. 



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