368 nciD^. 



d\ With no red on the crown or occiput . spoducephulm $ ad., 

 b" . Head slate-gre}' ; iiuderparts olive, more [p. ^J?!. 



golden on the neck and chest ; lateral tail- 

 feathers always uniform on the outer 

 webs. [p- 372. 



c'". Crown and occiput red (/riseocep/ialus (^ ai., 



d'". With no red on the crown or occiput . . griseocephalus $ ad., 

 6'. Underparts from the chest downwards spotted [p. 372. 



or varied with white ; with a median stripe 

 of red on the chest, breast, and abdomen. [p. 373. 



c". Crown and occiput red pi/rrhoffcister (J a.d., 



d". With no red on the crown or occiput, these [p. 374. 



being- black _ pi/ rrhnff aster ? ad., 



B. With no red on rump or upper tail-coverts. 

 c'. Underparts more or less striped; with no 

 black auricular or malar stripes ; with red 

 on the head in the male. 

 e". Underparts and under tail-coverts dull 

 yellow, and together with the chin and 

 throat broadly striped with blackish ; face 

 brownish butt'. 

 e'". With red occipital and nuchal band . . eUioticS ad., p. 374. 

 /'". With no red on the occiput or nape, 



these being black Uke the crown ellioti 5 ad., p. 375. 



/■". Underparts bright yellow, the chin and 

 throat whiter, and, together with the breast 

 and abdomen, uniform ; the chest and re- 

 maining parts below with very narrow and 

 faint striations of dusky brown ; face 

 greenish ; with red occipital and nuchal [p. 37''5 . 



band johnstoni (S ad., 



d. Undeq)arls spotted ; with black auricular and 

 malar stripes ; face white ; with yellow on 

 the crown iu the male. 

 g". Feathers of the posterior part of the crown [p. 376. 



tipped with yellow amitholophus^ad., 



h". With no yellow on the crown .mntJiolop/ms^i^d; 



[p. 3715. 



1. Mesopicus goertan. 



Picus goertan, P. L. S. Midi. Nutursyst. Suppl. 1776, p. 91. 



Le Goertan on Pic vert du Senegal, £uf. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 25 



(1780) ; Daubent. PI. Enl. pi. 320. 

 Crimson-rumped W' oodpecker. Lath. Gen. Sgn. i. pt. 2, p. 583, no. 29 



(1782). 

 Picus goertan, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 434 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 



1790, p. 236; l^teph. Gen. Zool. ix. pt. 1, p. 179 (1815) ; Vieill. N. 



Diet. d'Mist. Nat. xxvi. p. 75 (1818); Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. 



p. 1321, no. 71 (1823) ; Wayl. Syst. Av. sp. 34 (1827) ; id. Isis, 



1829, p. 611; Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 45, no. 133 6 (1866) ; 



HeiKjl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 814 (1871). 

 Dendrobates poicephakis, Sioains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 154 (1837). 

 Dendrobates immaculatus, Stvaim. £. W. Afr. ii. p. 152(1837); 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1846) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 125 



(1850); Sharpe Sf B Olivier, Bidl. Sac. Zool. J?-««ce, 1876, p. 16; 



Bocaye, Orn. Any. 1877, p. 74. 



