20. DENDROPICUS, 303 



Toimff male. Resembles the adult of the same sex but is duller 

 above and has dusky bars ; the sinciput is darker, and the remainder 

 of the crown and the occiput black, the featliers of the posterior 

 half of the crown having scarlet tijis, this colour coming more 

 forward on the crown than in the adult. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting tlie red on 

 the head, the sinciput being darker brown, the remainder of the 

 crown and the occiput black. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-6 

 wing 3-25, tail 1-6, tarsus 0-57. 



Ilah. Upper Ogowe lliver, West Africa. 



7. Dendropicus abyssinicus. 



Pious abyssinicus, StanJei/ in Salt's Voi/. Ahijss. ii. App. p. Ivi (1814) ■ 

 Riipp. Si/st Uebers. p. 95 (1845) ; Simdev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 44' 

 no. 129 (1866). ' 



Dendrobates abyssinicus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1845). 



Mesopicus desmursi, Malh. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1849, p. 537. 



Cbloronerpes desmursi, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 118 (1850, ex 



Cyauopicus muvsii, Bp. Consp. Vohtcr. Zyc/ocl. p. 10 (1854, ex Malh.). 

 Oampetbera abyssiuica, Reichenb. Sea7is. 'Ficincp, p. 426 (1854). 

 Erytbronerpes desmursii, i?e/c/;e?i6. Scans. Pici7icp, -a. 337 ('18.34 ev 



Malh.). ' ^ ^ ' 



Cbloronerpes (Erytbronerpes) desmursii, Reichenb. Sea7is. Picinee 



p. 356 (1854, ex Malh.). ' 



Dendromus abyssinicus, Hem/l. Si/st. Uebers. 1856, p. 47. 

 Dendropicus desmursi, 3Ialh. Picickc, i. p. 202, pi. xlii.' fios. 5 & 6 



(1801) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 1808, p. 65. ' ° ' 

 Ipoctonus abyssinicus. Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 116 (1863) • 



Salvacl. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genov. 1888, p. 210. ' 



Picus babessinicus, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 800 (1870, ex Cabanis) 

 Dendrojncus abvssinicus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 189 no SG-r^ 



188?^ ' ^^"''^' ^''"' ^•^■'^'^■f''- '''• P- '^^•^''" ^^^"'^^ ' ^aryiit, Ibis, 



Dendropicus melanaucben, Heunl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 808 nSTll- 



Haryitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 430 {ex Heuyl.). v y , 



Adult male. Has the upper parts and scapulars uniform golden 

 olive, the lower feathers of the rump and the upper tail-coverts 

 scarlet, these two characters separating it from all the other members 

 of the genus. In other respects tbis species is almost identical \\-ith 

 D. cardinalis, except that the shafts of the quills and rectrices are 

 brown (not yellow) and the tail is entirely brownish black barred 

 with buffer brownish buff, none of the feathers having a trace of 

 the golden-olive colour found in that species : " iris bright chest- 

 nut ; bill and feet plumbeous" (Anthiori). Total length 6 inches 

 culmen 0-8, wing 3-».5, tail 1-83, tarsus 0-G3 ; toes (without claws) 

 —outer anterior 0-5, outer posterior 0-57, inner anterior 0-35, inner 

 posterior 0"25. 



Young male *. Eescmblcs the adult male, but is of a duller green 



* The specimen from which this description is takeu is in the Leirlen Museum 

 and IS the type of Heuglin's V. melaimu'ckcn. ' 



