24. MEsopicus. 375 



eluding the chest, and with deep olive posteriorly, except on the 

 thighs which are barred, the under tail-coverts having, in addition 

 to the striations, blackish-olive bars ; under wing-coverts yellowish 

 white, striped and spotted with dusky olive; upper mandible black, 

 the tip pale horny ; lower mandible pale horny. Total length 7'5 

 inches, culmen 0'92, wing 3"8, tail 2-7, tarsus 0*7 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-5, outer posterior 0'53, inner anterior 0'4, 

 inner posterior 0*25. 



Adult female. With Cassin's figure before me, the adult of this 

 sex differs from the adult male in wanting the broad red occipital 

 band. The measurements are given as follows : — " Total length 

 about 7 inches, wing 3|, taU 3 " {Cassin). 



Hab. Western Africa (lliver Muni to Landana). 



6. Mesopicus johnstoni, (Plate IX.) 

 Poliopicus johnstoni, Shelley, P. Z. 8. 1887, p. 122. 



Adult male. Entire upper par^s and tail-coverts, wing-coverts, 

 and outer webs of the secondaries, also those of the primaries at 

 their base, yellowish olive ; remaining portion of the quills dusky 

 black, or brownish oii the outer webs of the primaries, the inner webs 

 of the quills being spotted with white ; shafts brown ; tail dusky 

 brown, the central feathers margined at the base with j^ellowish 

 olive ; shafts brown ; forehead and crown black, the occiput and 

 nape scarlet : nasal plumes black ; lores and face buffy green, 

 brighter yellowish olive on the side of the neck ; chin and throat 

 yellowish white, grading into brilliant yellow on the whole of the 

 underparts and under tail-coverts, the sides of the fore neck, body, 

 flanks, thighs, and the under tail-coverts having only a few almost 

 obsolete dusky striations; under wing-coverts and axillaries yel- 

 lowish white ; bill yellowish white, darker at the base of tlie upper 

 mandible. Total length G'5 inches, culmen 0-82, wing 3-.55, tail 

 2*45, tarsus 0*68 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0"57, outer 

 posterior 0'62, inner anterior 0'45, inner posterior 0-26. 



Huh. Cameroon Mountains, 6000 feet. 



a, b. (S ad. sk. Canieroons, W. Africa (if. //. British Association [P.]. 

 Johnston). (T-Jpes of the species.) 



7. Mesopicus xantholophus. (Plate VIII.) 



Dendromus africanus {non Gray), Cassin, Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859 



p. 141 ; Heme, J.f. O. 1860, p. 192. 

 Dendropicus africanus, Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 2G3 ; Cassin, Prcc. 



Acad. Phi/ad. 18G3, p. 322 ; Sharpe ^- Bouvier, Hidl. Soc. Zocl 



France, 1876, p. 312. 

 Picus africanus, Bocage, Jam. Lisb. n. xx. 1876, p. 259. 

 Dendrobates africanus, Bocage, Orn. Ang. 1877, App. p. 536. 

 Dendropicus xantholophus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 173. 

 Mesopicus xantholophus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 421 ; Sharpe, Journ. 



Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 430 (1884). 

 Dendropicus pecilei, Oiist. Le Katuraliste, 1886, p. 299. 



