22. ITNGinCTJS. 



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Picus schoensis, Sundev. Consp. Av. ricin. p. 42, no 19.3 nsfifi^ • 



Picus schoauus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 809 (1871) 



Mesopicus schoensis, Sharpe, Jouni. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 430 (1884). 



Adult male. Differs from Th. namaqmcs in havin- the chest and 

 upper part of the breast brownish black, spotted with white There 

 IS scarcely any olive tinge either above or below, the back being 

 much darker and the barnng below also blacker; the black stripe 

 wSr"? ^'f^'^l^' f™"^ ^^^ ^ye unites with the black stripe 

 which borders the throat and fore neck and encircles these by its 

 junction with he black chest. Total length 9 inches, culmen 1-5 



rinr?)^-9' ! ' ^•'"'. '^■^' ' ^''' (^^^t^°^t claws)-outer ante- 

 rior t>2, outer posterior 0-7, inner anterior 0-6, inner posterior 0-35. 

 Advlt female ^^ ants the red on the hind part of the crown and 

 on the occiput,_ these being uniform bhick, like the hind neck In 

 other respects it resembles the adult male. Total length 9 inches 

 culmen 1-42, w.ng 5-25, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-85. 



ft'!^!'T'^^'^^''^^ ''^^^ ^^^ Ni^m-Mam Country (^oAHcZor#') 

 and Wakkala (Ernin Pacha), and east into Somali-Land. "^ ^ 



It. 2 ad. sk. 

 ^, c. J 5 ad. sk. 



Somali-Land. 

 Muscharek, Gazelle 

 River, Nov. 



E. Lort Phillips, Esq. rP.l. 



F. Bohndorff[C.]. 



22. lYNGIPICUS. 



Yungipicus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zijgod. no. 67 (1854) I hat' 



Eseopipo, Cab. S,- Heine, 3Ius. Hein. iv. p. 64 (1863) ' ' I auri 



Ipophilus, Cab ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 113 (1863)" ^" ' 



Type, 

 'dwiekii. 

 itus. 

 I. obsoletus. 



Wiug of lyngipicm auritits. 



Bange. Throughout India and Ceylon ; Assam ; the Burmese 

 Provinces, Siam, and Cochin China ; through the Malayan Peninsula 



A ^"matra Java, Lombock, and Flores, Borneo, Celebes, the Sulu 

 and the Philippme Isles; north into China, Hainan, and Formosa • 



