304 piciD^. 



above, and marked with indistinct dusky bars ; the nape brownish 

 black, this forming a conspicuous patch ; upper tail-coverts orange- 

 red ; the auricular and malar stripes darker and of a dusky brown 

 colour, and much more extended : " bill blackish-horn colour ; feet 

 dusky lead-colour ; iris red " {Heuglin). 



Adult female. Has no red on the head, the forehead, entire crown, 

 and occiput being uniform brown, and the nape dusky brown. In 

 other respects like the adult male. Total length 6 inches, culmen 

 0*7, wing 3-75, tail 1'9, tarsus 0"62. 



Hah. Abyssinia and Shoa. 



a. cJ ad. sk, Shoa, Aug. 1, 1879 (A. Antinori). Shelley Coll. 



8. Dendropicus gabonensis. 



Dendrobates gabonensis, J. Sf E. Verrcau.v, Rev. et Mag. de Zuol. 



1851, p. 513 ; Hartl. J.f. O. 1854, p. 198. 

 Dendrodromus nigriguttatus, Verr. MSS. (female). 

 Dendropicus gabouensis, Bonap. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854) ; 



Reichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 429, no. 1012 f/ (1854) ; Hard. Orn. 



W.-Afr.^. 178(1857); Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1859, p. 141; 



Heine, J.f. O. 1860, p. 191 ; Hartl. oj). cit. 1861, p. 263 ; Hargitt, 



Ibis, 1883, p. 444, pi. xii. fig. 1. 

 Pardipicus nigriguttatus, Bonap. Consp. Volucr. Zggod. p. 9 (1854). 

 Scolecotheres nigriguttatus, Reichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 429, no. 1012 c 



(1854). 

 Dendromus (Pardipicus) uigTiguttatus, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 182 



(1857) ; id. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 264. 

 Dendropicus nigriguttatus, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1859, p. 141. 

 Chrvsopicus gabonensis, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 149, pi. xci. figs. 1, 2 



(1862). 

 Ipopatis gabonensis. Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 129 (1863). 

 Picus gabonensis, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 63 (1866). 

 Campethera gabonensis, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1863, p. 326 ; 



Gray, List Picid. Brit. 3Ius. p. 79 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 192, 



no. 8690 (1870). 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform 

 bright olive, the wing-coverts iiniform deeper olive ; quills blackish 

 brown, the outer webs of the secondaries and the margins of the 

 outer webs of inner primaries at the base bright olive, the outer 

 primaries having a few dull white spots on the outer webs, the inner 

 webs of all the quills with larger spots of white ; shafts dark brown ; 

 tail blackish brown, the central feathers margined with olive at the 

 base, the lateral ones having fulvescent whitish spots on both webs, 

 and the whole with a trace of blackish bars or transverse marginal 

 spots ; shafts clear brown ; nasal plumes brownish black ; forehead 

 greenish brown ; crown and occiput scarlet ; sides of the face and 

 neck greenish white striped with black ; a narrow black malar 

 stripe ; chin, throat, and fore neck yellowish white, with triangular 

 spots and stripes of black ; the whole of the underparts and under 

 tail-coverts greenish yellow ; the chest and breast in realitj' strijjcd 



