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Tavoy; and in the Appendix {t. c. p. 501) they add — ^' i\\e 

 jungles at the foot of Nwalabo^ and the country between this 

 and Tavoy/' Capt. Bingham (Str. Feath. 1880, p. IGl) ob- 

 serves — " though not common, it still occurs here and there 

 in the evergreen forests of the Thoungyeeu." Siam has 

 been given as a habitat by Blyth ; and in the British Museum 

 there is a specimen (formerly in the Gould collection) from 

 that locality, procured by Mouhot or Schomburgk. Colonel 

 Tickell, in his MS. 111. Ind. Orn., describes and figures, as a 

 male, a Tenasserim example; the red cheek-patch has, how- 

 ever, been omitted, sliowing that he had a female bird before 

 him. Malherbe describes the present species as "^less than 

 M. tristis •/' but his measurements show this to be a slip of 

 the pen. I have examined specimens of M. jugular is in 

 the collection of the British Museum, and also in that of 

 Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay. The descriptions are taken from 

 birds in my own museum. 



XXI. — Azotes on Woodpeckers. — No. VII. Additional Notes 

 on the Woodpeckers of the Ethiopian Region. By Edward 

 Hargitt, F.Z.S. 



Through the kindness of Count Salvadori I have recently 

 had an opportunity of examining some interesting Wood- 

 peckers collected by the late Marquis Antinori in Schoa. 

 Amongst them was an example of Mesopicns spodocephalus, a 

 species which, at the time I wrote my paper on the African 

 Woodpeckers, I had not had an opportunity of examining. 

 It turns ou-t to be a very distinct species, which I am glad 

 to have the chance of describing, as it enables me to correct 

 at the same time a very serious error which has crept into 

 my key (Ibis, 1883, p. 406), for the detection of which I am 

 also indebted to Count Salvadori. By a lapsus calami I have 

 placed M. goertan and M. spodocephalus in the yellow-shafted 

 section of the genus, instead of in the black-shafted section, 

 and I therefore give an amended key to replace my former 

 one. 



