376 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, niinp, and upper tail-coTcrts olive, 

 the rump-feathers tipped witli _vellow; wing-coverts olive, the lesser 

 and the mediau series sparingly spotted with white ; quills black, 

 the outer webs of the primaries partially or entirely margined with 

 olive and spotted with white, those of the secondaries entirely olive ; 

 inner webs of the quills (except the innermost) spotted with white ; 

 shafts black ; tail and the shafts black ; nasal plumes dusky brown 

 mixed with white ; forehead and crown brown, the feathers of the 

 hind crown tipped with golden yellow ; occiput and nape black 

 hind neck like the back, the sides transversely spotted with white 

 face, chin, and throat white, the supercilium striped with black 

 an auricular stripe of black, and bordering the throat and fore neck 

 another black stripe, the tips of many of the feathers of the latter 

 white ; sides of the neck and chest olive-black, and, with the 

 remainder of the underparts which are dusky olive, spotted with 

 white (except upon the abdomen, which is uniform or sometimes 

 transversely varied with yellowish), some of the abdominal feathers 

 tipped with dull golden yellow ; under tail-coverts dusky olive, 

 spotted with white ; under wing-coverts black, spotted and barred 

 with white ; axillaries barred black and white. Total length 8-5 

 inches, culmen 1-23, wing 4-5, tail 2-66, tarsus 0-87 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-62, outer posterior 0-75, inner anterior 

 0"5, inner posterior 0'32. 



Adult female. Kesembles the adult male, but wants the yellow on 

 the crown. Total length 8*5 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 4-46, tail 

 2-66, tarsus 0-8. 



Bab. Gaboon and the Congo, east to the northern part of the 

 Congo Free State (Aruwimi River), and in the Niam-Niam Country. 



h. Gaboon. A. Marche [C.]. 



a. d' imm. 



2 ad. sk 



c. j ad. sk 



N'doruma, Niam-Niaui Country, 

 Aug-. 



F. Bohndoi'ff[C.]. 



25. XIPHIDIOPICUS. 



Xiphidiopicus, £p. Co7isp. Valuer. Zygocl. no. 213 (1854). 



Type. 

 X. percussus. 



Wing of A'iphidiopiciis 'percussus (reduced). 

 Range. Confined to the island of Cuba. 



