20. DENDROPICUS. 305 



with black, but having a spotted appearance, owing to the stripes 

 contracting in the centre, and also from the yellow tips of the 

 feathers concealing the basal part of those beneath ; the thighs are 

 barred, but all the remaining underparts as well as the under tail- 

 coverts are spotted with black : under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 pale j'ellow, the former having rounded spots of black, the latter 

 barred with the same. Total length 5 inches, culraen 0*8, wing 3"1, 

 tail 1"55, tarsus 0-57 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'42, 

 outer posterior 0"5, inner anterior 0"35, inner posterior (>2. 



Female. From Malberbe's description of this sex, it would appear 

 to differ from the male mainly in the absence of red on the head, the 

 whole of the top of the head being brown slightly washed with olive. 



Hab. Gaboon. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Gaboon. Purchased. 



9. Dendropicus lugubris. 



Dendropicus lugubris, Hartl. Oni. W.-Afr. p. 178 (1857) : Harqitt, 



Ibis, 1883, p. 445, pi. xii. fig. 2 ; Biittik. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1885, 



p. 220 ; id. op. cit. 1886, p. 203. 

 Campethera gabonensis {non Verr.), Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 17, 



no. 156 (1S71) ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 68 ; SJtellei/ Hf Buckley, torn. cit. 



p. 287. 



Adult male, llesembles D. gabonensis, but differs in having the 

 ear-coverts and a stripe behind uniform dark uniber-brown, and a 

 broad malar stripe bordering the throat and fore neck of the same 

 umber-brown colour ; the red confined to the occiput and nape and 

 not extending (in the adult) on to the dark brown crown ; the under- 

 parts and under tail-covcrts yellow, and (except the thighs which 

 are barred) very broadlj' striped with deep olive ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries pale yellow spotted with black : " iris carmineous ; 

 bill greyish black ; feet greyish green " (Biittikofer). Total length 

 5 3 inches, culmen 0"75, wing 3'2, tail 1'45, tarsus O'o8 ; toes 

 (without claws) — outer anterior 0-42, outer posterior 0"5, inner 

 anterior 0*35, inner posterior 0*25. 



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

 the occiput and nape, these, as well as the forehead and crown, 

 being brown. Total length 5'2 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-2, tail 

 1-45, tarsus 0'6. 



Yovni/ (se.v ?). In general plumage like the adult, but duller ; the 

 point in which it differs from the adult of either sex is in having the 

 olive-brown feathers of the crown as well as of the occiput tipped 

 with dull scarlet. 



Ilab. Fantee ; Aguapim (Riis). 



