15. DENDEOCOrUS. 217 



no. 844 pi. dcxxxiii. figs. 4213-14, c? $ (18-54), Ilab. partly; 

 lyrw.-JJrake, Ibi-s 18G7, p. 425; Irhy, Oni. 8tr. Gibr. v 71 

 (1875); id. Ibis, 1879, p. 343. ^ 



Picus niimidicus (partimj, Sunder. Con.«p. Av. Picin p ''2 (1886) • 

 S/iarjje .^ Dress. B. Eur. v. p. 33 (1871). v ^ ' 



Adult male. Resembles D. niimidicus, but may be distinguished 

 by the black stripes which border the throat and fore neck and 

 extend on to the sides of the chest, not uniting- or forming a com- 

 plete crcscentic band, tlie central chest-feathers being of the same 

 Cdkiur as the under surface of the body, but tijjpcd with scarlet; a 

 few of the black feathers on the chest' have their tips buff'y white 

 washed with scarlet, but tlie latter colour is confined (on the chest ) 

 to the buflfy-white feathers or portions of the feathers and does not 

 spread on to the black as is the case in D. nnmidicus, the latter 

 species having a broad and complete crescentic band of black across 

 the chest, the feathers composing it being conspicuously tipped with 

 crimson. In D. mauritanus the lateral tail-feathers are much 

 more broadly and distinctly barred with black; the bill and legs 

 arc also less powerful. Total length 7-8 inches, culmen l-I, wing 

 4-7, tail 2-8, tarsus 0-8 : toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-4(3', 

 outer posterior 0-55, inner anterior 0-45, inner posterior 0-28. 



Adtdt female . Difl'ers from the adult male in wanting the red 

 occipital band. Total length 7-8 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 4-05, 

 tail 3, tarsus O'S. 

 I/ah. Morocco. 



(i,b. S 2 ad- sk. Tangiers. Colonel Ivbv [P.l. 



c. 5 imm. sk. Morocco. Tweeddale Coll. 



4. Dendrocopus numidicus. 



Pious numidus, 3Ial/i. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1842, p. 242 ; id. Faun. 



Orn. Sicil. 1843, p. 144; Graij, Gen. B. ii. p. 435 (1845). 

 Picus (LeucoDotopicus) numidicus, Malh. Bev. Zool. lS-^5, p. 375; 



id. Cat. liais. d'Ois. d'Alt/er. p. 15 (184G). 



Picus numidicus, Malk. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49 

 „ Qo-7 . r< /-<„„ r> x:: ^.„ _ • /i,,./^> r. A ^ ' 



1859, pp. 157, 159; *'«/i'. t. c. p. 315; Tristr. op. cit. 18fi0, p. 373; 

 Math. Picidce, i. p. G5, pi. xviii. figs. 1-3 S $ ad., c? I'uv. (1861), 

 Ilab. partly; Altum*, J. f. O. 1862, p. 382 ; Loche, B.ipl. Sci. 

 Ahjer., Ois.'ix. p. 79, pi. ix. figs. \S ad., 1« ]uv. (1867) ; Gray, List 

 Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 34 (1868) ; id. Iland-l. B. ii. p. 182, no. 8547 

 (1870) ; Sharpe S^ Dresser, B. Eur. r. p. 33, pi. cclxxvi. c? $ ad. 

 & jxiv. (1871). 



Dendiocopus numidicus (pt.). Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv p 34 

 (1863). 



Picus numidicus (partim), Smidev. Cunsp. Av. Picin. p. 22 (1866). 



* Eecorded from CElde, Miinsier, Germany. A very improbable locality for 

 this African species. 



