48. VEKREAUXIA. 553 



AcMt male. Back, rump, upper tail-noverts, scapulars, and win-- 

 coverts urnform olive ; quills brown, the outer webs of the secon- 

 daries and the margins of those of the primaries on more or less of 

 their basal portion olive ; the inner webs of the quills more or less 

 margined with dull pale buff; shafts dark brown; tail un f rm 

 brownish ohve the shafts of the feathers brown ; nasal plumed 

 varied black and white ; base of the forehead, upper half of the face 

 the side of the neck from behind the ear-coverts to the hind neck 

 and the hmd neck itself, olive, with, on the sides of the latter a 

 number of spots and stripes of yellowish white, which form an almost 

 continuous collar ; the base of the forehead is also spotted with whitish- 

 feathers of the top of the head chrome-vello; at the tip, dusky 

 olive at the base, the crown with a quadrate spot of dull crimson 

 posteriorly ; lower half of the face and the side of the neck between 

 the ear-coverts and the fore neck yellowish white, spotted with olive 

 or dusky ; the ear-coverts dusky olive, margined with vellowish 

 white; chin, throat, and fore neck yellowish white, the underparts 

 jellow, the whole being covered with drop-like stripes of deep olive 

 except the thighs, which have transverse spots or bars ; undc^r tall-' 

 coverts pale yellow, with rounded spots and crcscentic markings of 

 ohve; under wmg-coverts pale buff, with a few dusky spots near 

 the base of the primaries, the edge of the wing yellowish ; axillaries 

 butfy white: " bill^ legs, and feet dark slate-colour; i is redd'sh 

 brown " (Cory). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-72, y^ml Tq 

 tail 1-6, tarsus 0-75 ; toes (without claws)-outer anterior" O^oS' 

 outer posterior 0-6o, inner anterior 0-4, inner posterior 0-32 



AcMt female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the crimson 

 spot on the crown Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-67, wing 3-03, 

 tail 1-6, tarsus 0-73. ' 



Hah. Confined to Haiti and San Domingo. 



a, b c? 2 ad. sk. San Domingo, Sept. (C. B. Cory). Sclater Coll. 

 ; ^i" '^ X o Domingo, April {Toogoo(T). Sclater Coll. 

 $ld s^. ■ ^''I'^^'^J' g«" I^omingo, Sept. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



48. VERREAUXIA. 

 Sasia, pt., Va-r. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. p. 217 (1855) ^^^' 



Ven-eauxia, Ilartl. On,. W.-Afr. p. 176 (1857) V africana 



Picumnus, pt., Malh. Monog,-'. Find. ii. p. 284 (1862) ' ' ' 



Nannopipo, Cab. .$• Heme, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 9 (1863) . V. africana. 



Baneje. Confined to the forests of Gaboon. 

 1. Verreauxia africana. 



Sasia africana, Terv. lier. et Maq. de Zool. 1855, p. 218 • Gray List. 



Picid. Brit. Mus. 1868, p. 20 ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 180, no. 8535 



(Ilm 0). 

 Verreauxia africana, mirtl. Orn. W.-Afr. 1857, p. 176 no 5->3 • 



id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 2()3 ; Hcirgift, Ibi.i, 1881, p. 229. ' ' " ' 

 Picumnus verreauxii, Mal^. Pichhe, ii. p. 284, pi. 118. fig. 1 (1862), 



