20. DENDROPICTJS. 



301 



d. (^ ad. ; e. 5 imm. 



sk. 

 /, g. 2 ^^- ^^^ 

 h. 5 ad.sk. 

 i. 5 ad. sk. 

 k,l. c? $ ad. sk. 

 711. 5 ad. sk. 



n. cJ juv. sk. 



('. (S ad. sk. 



p. Bones of trunk. 



Ailat, Bogos (Esler). 



Ailat (Bsler). 



Ailat, June ( TV. Jesse). 



Bairo, Bogos ( W. Jesse). 



Bairo, Aug. ( W. Jesse). 



Somali-Laud. 



Ukambani, E. Africa. 

 Seuegambia ( Verreaux). 

 Abyssinia. 



Sharps Coll. 



Shelley CoU. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 E.Lort Phillips, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Dr. midebrandtrC.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



4. DendropicTis lafresnayi. 



Dendi'opicos lafresnayi, Malh. Mev. de Zool. 1849, p. 533. 

 Dendrobates lafresnayi, Bonap. C'onsp. Gen. Av. i. p. 125 (1850 j ; 



J. 4" -E. Verreaux, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1855, p. 272 ; Bocage, 



Orn. Aug., App. p. 535 (1877). 

 Cauipethera lafresnayi, Reichenb. Scans. Picirue, p. 426, no. 1002 



(1854). 

 Dendropicus lafresnayi, Bonap. Consp. Vohicr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854) ; 



Hartl. Orn. IV.-Afr. p. 177 (1857) ; Malh. I'kidm, i. p. 204, 



pi. xliy. fig. 4 (1861); Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 263; Gray, List 



Ficid. Brit. Mus. p. 66 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 192, no. 8654 



(1870) ; Sharpe Sf Buuvier, Bidl. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 50 ; 



Eeichenuw, Mitth. Afrik. Gesellsch. i. p. 3 ; Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Sc. 



Lisb. xxix. 1880, p. 49 ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 425 ; Shelley, t. c. 



p. 556. 

 Ipoctonus lafi-esnayi, Cab. 8,- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 116 (1863). 

 Picus lafresnayi, Sundev. Consp. Av. Ficin. p. 43, no. 127 (1866) ; 



Giebel, Thes'. Orn. iii. p. 162 (1876). 

 Dendrocopus lafresnayi, Meichenow, J.f. O. 1877, p. 18. 



Adult male. Has the back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coyerts 

 uniform golden olive, the upper tail-coverts tinged with red ; the 

 lateral tail-feathers with bufFy-white marginal spots, not barred 

 across. In other respects this species closely resembles D. zanzi- 

 bari, but the dimension.s of B. lafresnayi are less. " Bill dark horn- 

 colour ; feet dark greenish : iris clear brown" {Falkenstein). Total 

 length b-b inches, culmen 0-73, wing 3-2, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-55 ; toes 

 (without claws) — outer anterior 0-4, outer posterior O'o, inner 

 anterior 0-3, inner posterior 0-2. 



Adult female. DiHers from the adult male in the absence of red 

 on the head, the forehead and crown being dark brown, the occiput 

 and nape black. Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 0-67, wing 3*2, 

 tail 1'65, tarsus 0*6. 



Young (sex ?). The top of the head and the occiput are dark 

 brown, the feathers of the crown being tipped with red ; the face 

 and neck white, the underparts rather yellower, the former spotted, 

 the latter entirely covered with faint dusky stripes, these bein" 

 darker on the chest ; the back with only a trace of very indistinct 

 dusky olive and yellowish bars. 



Bab. West Africa from the Congo (or further south, as it has 

 been recorded by Reichenow from Malange in Angola) to the Gold 



