- 94 — 



Irides in all brownish red; bill dark blackish brown; legs 

 greyish green. 



Dendropicos fuscescens massaicus Neum. — Journal f. Ornithol., 



1900, p. 206. 



Dendropicos guinensis masaicus Neum. — Journ. f. Orn., 1900, p. 206. 

 1 Q ad. 26. 4. Mombasa. 



This little woodpecker was met with in the same locality 

 as Campothera c. cailliauti. The specimen is in transitory dress. 

 The back is predominantly black and white with a pale yellow- 

 ish wash. The underparts are dirty- white with a pale yellow- 

 ish greenish tint longitudinally streaked with black. The fore- 

 head and crown brown, the nape black; sides of head white. 

 Total length in flesh, wing, tarsus, culmen, tail, 



148 mm. 84 mm. 14 mm. 16 mm. 48 mm. 



Dendropicos lafresnayi lepidus Cab. — Rchw. II. p. 195. 



Dendropicos lafresnayi Malh. — Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 533. — Ipoctonus 

 lepidus Cab. & Heine. - Mus. Hein. vol. IV, 1863, p. 118. 

 1 (5 ad. 8. 5. Londiani 7.500 feet. - 1 (5 juv. 3. 6. Elgon 7.000 feet. - 

 1 S ad. 10. 5. Eldoret 7.500 feet. 



R e i c h e n w , in his op. cit p. 105 says: ''Ipoctonus lepidus'' 

 Cab. Heine mit des Vaterlandsangabe Abbessinien ist gleichbe- 

 deutend mit D. lafresnayei, wie ich mich durch Untersuchung 

 des Typus uberzeugt habe". — Grant (Ibis 1915, p. 464) and 

 S m e r e n (Nov. Zool. XXV, 1918, p. 271) have therefore called 

 it D. lafresnayi lepidus, in order to distinguish this sub-species 

 from allied forms. 



I procured a male and a female of the race two days, march 

 north of Londiani (on the route to Eldoret). 



As regards colour the male is as described by G r a n t (Ibis 

 1915, p. 464) but the female is dark -brown on the forehead 

 (the male, on the other hand, light brown) and the underparts 

 are darker than in the male. 



wing, tarsus, culmen, tail, 



85 mm. 16 mm. 18.5 mm. 43 mm. cT. 



85 mm. 16.5 mm. 17 mm. 44 mm. 9- 

 On the eastern slopes of Mt. Elgon I noticed this Woodpecker 

 only on a single occasion, It was a young male. The intersca- 

 pular region in this bird is distinctly black and banded with 

 white. The olive-green colour of the wing-coverts, wing-feathers 

 and the back in this specimen is very dark. Besides, the fore- 

 head is dark-brown, nearly the same colour as in the female, 

 wing, tarsus, culmen, tail, 



87 mm. 16 mm. 18 mm. 47 mm. 



