306 



PIClDJi. 



e. 2 ad. ; /. Imiii. Fantee (II. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 



sic. 



//, h. 2 ad. 8lv. Abouri, Ap-uapim, Feb. Shelley Coll. 



[G. E. .S".). 

 <■'■ 2 ad.; k. J imm. Abouri, Ap:iia]iim, Feb. Shelley Coll. 



sk. [T. E. Biickleij). 



21. THRIPIAS. 



Ihripias, Cab. ^- Ilcuid, Miis. Hem. iv. p. 121 (iSCio). . T. namaquiLs. 



Range. From Swazi-Land and the Transvaal extending westward 

 into Damara-Land and Angola as far as Galungo ; on the east 

 ranging north into Somali-Land and westward into Shea and the 

 Niam-N'iam Country. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Chest and breast ban-ed like the rest of 



the underparts. 



a. Occiput and nape red naviaquns cS ad., p. 307. 



b' ^Yith no red ou the occiput or nape. . . . namaijuus 2 ad., p. 308. 



B. Cliest and breast black, spotted with 



white. 



c . Occiput and nape red schoensis c? ad., p. 309. 



d. With no red on the occiput or nape . . schoensis 2 ad., p. 309. 



1. Thripias namaquus. 



Picus namaquus, Licht. Cat. rer. Kaf. Ilamb. p. 17, no. 17'J (1703) ; 



Sundev. Consp. Av. Piciti. p. 42, no. 122 (1866) ; Finsch ^ Hartl. 



Voff. Ostafr. p. 507 (1870) ; Bohm, J.f. O. 1883, p. 186. 

 Pic a moustaches uoires, Tcmm. Cat. Syst. 1807, p. 213. 

 Le Pic a double moustache, Leraill. Ois. d^Afr. vi. p. 22, pis. 251, 



252 (1808) ; Simdev. Krit. Framsf. Lemill. p. 52 (1857). 

 Picus mvstaceus, TieiU. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 73 (1818) ; 



£o}m\$- Vieill. Enc. Mi-th. iii. p. 1307 (1823). 

 Picus puuctatus, Vieill. (non Cuv.) N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 89 



(1818) ; Bonn. ^ Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1316 (1823) ; Wayl. 



Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 37 (1827, ex Vieill.). 

 Picus biarmicus, Cuv. in 3Ius. Paris; Valenc. Diet. Sc. Nat. xl. 



p. 176 (1826) ; Waql. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 44 (1827) ; Less. 



Traite, i. p. 220 (1831) ; tiupi). Syst. TJebers. 1845, p. 85. 

 Picus diophrys, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 161 (1826). 

 Dendromus punctatus, Stmins. (no7i Cuv.) Classif. B. ii. p. 307 



(1837, e-r Wagl.) ; Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854). 

 Dendrobates namaquus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1849); Bp. Consp. 



Gen. Av. i. p. 124 (1850) ; Strickl. ^- Sclat. Contr. Orn. 1852, 



p. 155 ; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 328 ; Bucage, Jorn. Lish. iv. 1867, 



p. 336 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 236 (1867); Bocage, Jorn. Lish. 



viii. 1870, p. 348; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 134; Layard, Ibis, 



1871, p. 227; Ayres, torn. cit. p. 261; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. x\i. 



p. 286(1873); Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 368; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 



xxii. 1877, p. 143 ; id. Orn. Angola, p. 75 (1877) ; id. Jorn. 



