372 nciD^. 



p. 237, no. 37 (1790) ; Licht. Cat. Rvr. Nat. Hnmh. p. 16, nos. 



175, 176 (1793) ; Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 92 (1818) ; 



Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 194 (1826) ; Less. Traite, i. p. 219 (1831) ; 



Riipih St/sf. Uebers. p. 87(1845). 

 Picas maiiillensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 434(1788, ex Sonn.) ; Latham, 



Ind. Orn. i. p. 236, no. 31 (1790) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 189. _ 

 Le Pic Olive, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi. p. 16, pis. ccxlviii., ccxlix. 



(1808); Sundev. Krit. Framsi. Levaill. p. 52 (1857). 

 Picus caniceps, Wacjl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 46 (1827). 

 Picus obscurus, Wayl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 90 (1827). 

 Dendrobates capens'is, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 154 (1837) ; Bp. 



Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 125 (1850). 

 Dendrobates griseocepbalus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1849) ; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 236 (1867). 

 Cbrysocolaptes menstruus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. A pp. p. 21 (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 122 (1850) ; id. Consp. Valuer. Zyyod. p. 10 



(1854); Reiehenb. Scans. Picina, p. 400, pi. dcliv. fig. 4-356 



(1854). 

 Mesopicus capensis, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zi/qod. p. 9 (1854) ; Malh. 



Picid(e, ii. p. 42, pi. xlii. figs. 7, 8 (1862)". 

 Mesopicus griseocepbalus, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1863, p. 324; 



Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 417 ; Soitsa, Jam. Sc. Lish. 1889,_p. 43. 

 Scolecotheres menstruus, Cab. S( Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 134 



(1863). 

 Dendropicus menstruus, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 67 (1868) ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 190, no. 8657 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 18 (1871) ; id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 191 (1875) ; Barratt, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 200 ; Butler, Feilden, 8)- Reid, Zoologist, 1882, 



p. 208. 

 Mesopicus menstruus, Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 432. 

 Dendrobates menstruus, Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 393 (1882). 



Adult male. Upper parts, including scapulars and wing-coverts, 

 uniform golden olive ; quills blackish brown, the outer webs edged 

 with golden olive, this colour being more developed on the second- 

 aries ; inner webs spotted with white ; shafts brownish black ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts crimson ; tail uniform blackish brown, shafts 

 black ; crown and occipital crest crimson ; forehead, lores, and 

 entire side of the face, also chin and throat, ashy grey : fore neck 

 and chest golden olive, tinged with dull red ; underparts olive 

 mixed with grey, the bases of the feathers being of the latter colour ; 

 the centre of the abdomen tinged with scarlet; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries yellowish white crossed by dusky bars : " upper 

 mandible dusky, the under one pule ashy ; tarsi and feet greenish 

 ashy; iris dusky" (F. A. Barratt); "iris reddish hazel" (T. 0. 

 Atmore). Total length 7'6 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 4-4, tail 3, 

 tarsus 0'8 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-55, outer 

 posterior 0-6, inner anterior 0"4, inner posterior 0'25. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the head 

 entirely grey. Total length 7"o inches, culmen 1-1, wing 4-2, tail 

 2-75, tarsus 0-8. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Natal, and into Zulu-Land and Eastern 

 Transvaal ; extending on the west to Huilla in Angola. 



