24. MESOPICTJS. 



373 



a. J ad. sk. 



b,c. c? 5" ad. ; d. 



Imm. sk. 

 e. cf imm. sk. 

 /, (?. 2 ad. sk. 

 A. 2 ad. sk. 

 i. (S ad. sk. 

 k, I. (J ad. sk. 



m. (S ad. sk. 

 n, 0. 2 ad. ; p. 



c? imm. sk. 

 y, r. c? 2 ^<^l- sk. 



s. o ad. sk. 



^ M. c5' 2 ^^- slf- 

 r. cJ ad. sk. 



Cape Colony. 



Cape Colony. 



Cape Colony. 



Cape Colony. 



Knysna, Jan. (C J. Andersson). 



Kuysna, Dec. ( C. J. Andersson). 



Elands Post, May, June {T. 



C. Atmore). 

 George {T. C. Atmore). 

 Kingwilliamstown. 



Drakensberg, Aug. (.E". A. But- 

 ler). 



Newcastle, Aug. (R A. But- 

 ler). 



Zulu-Land (Gordye). 



Macamac, Jun^. 



w, .V. c? 2 ad. sk. Macamac (F. A. Bar rati). 



F. Thackeray, Esq. 



[P-]- 

 Sharps Coll. 



India Museum. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Major Trevelyan [P.]. 



Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Shelley CoU. 



F. A. Barratt, Esq. 



[P.J. 

 Shelley Coll. 



4. Mesopicus pyrrhogaster. 



Picus (Chloropicus) pyrrhogaster, Alalh. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 399. 

 Dendrobates pyrrhogaster, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 21 (1849) : 



Hartl. J.f. O. 1854, pp. 201, 4.33. 

 Chloropicus pyrrhogaster, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 126 (1850). 

 Scolecotheres pyrrhogastei", Reichenb. Seems. Picince, p. 428 (1854). 

 Mesopicus pyrrhogaster, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zyyod. p. 9 (1854) ; 



Malh. FicidcB, ii. p. 41, pi. viii. figs. 9, 10 (1862); Harqitt, 



Ibis, 1883, p. 419; Bilttikofer, Notes Leyd. Mus. 1885, p. 219; 



id. op. cit. 1886, p. 263, 1888, p. 96. 

 Dendropicus (Mesopicus) pyrrhogaster, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 180 



(1857). 

 Dendropicus pyrrhogaster, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. P/ulad. 



1859, p. 141 ; Hartl. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 263; Gray, List Picid. Brit. 



Mus. p. 08 (1868); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 190, no. 8861 (1870); 



Sharpe, Ms, 1870, p. 486 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 18 (1871) ; Ussher, 



Ibis, 1874, p. 55. 

 Camponomus pvrrhogaster, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 137 



(1863). 

 Picus pyrrhogaster, Sundev. Consp). Av. Picin. p. 45, no. 131 (1866). 



Adult nude. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverfcs deep golden olive 

 the outermost of the median wing-coverts spotted with buff; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts crimson ; quills blackish broAvn, the outer 

 webs of the secondaries and the external margin of the inner 

 primaries deep golden olive ; the outer webs of the primaries spotted 

 with wliite or yellowish, the inner webs of all the quills spotted 

 with white ; shafts black ; tail uniform blackish brown, the shafts 

 black ; upper nasal plumes and the forehead brown, the latter 

 spotted with paler brown ; crown and occiput crimson ; nape and 

 hind neck black ; lower nasal plumes, sides of the face and neck. 



