200 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Key to the Species. 



a. Shafts of quills and of tail-feathers bright yellow or 



orange-brown above and below. 

 a^. Sinciput black, spotted with white ; hinder crown 

 and occiput red ; colour above and below olive- 

 dusky, narrowly barred with white ; sides of 

 face white. 

 a'. With a broad auricular stripe of black and a 

 second broad moustachial band, the two 7iot 



meeting on the side of the neck timnacjuus. 



b'. Auricular baud uniting with the moustachial 



band on the side of the neck schoensis. 



b. Shafts of quills and of rectrices dark brown or black 



above, yellow or liglit brown below. 

 b^. Forehead ashy grey ; crown and occiput red ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts red. 

 c^. Centre of abdomen yellow, sometimes with a 



slight tinge of red goertan. 



d^. Entire abdomen conspicuously red, extending 



on to the breast spodocephalus. 



c'. Forehead, crown, and occiput, as well as the 



rump and upper tail-coverts, red. 



e". Above and below uniform golden olive, without 



moustachial or auricular stripes ; face and 



throat slaty grey ; lower part of abdomen 



centred with red griscocephalus. 



/*. Above uniform golden olive ; below dingy buffy 

 white, striped and varied with black ; a black 

 moustache and auricular stripe ; face and 

 throat buffy white ; a median stripe of red down 

 the breast and the whole of the abdomen . . pyrrhogaster. 

 d}. Forehead and crown dark umber-brown, the fea- 

 thers of the former tipped with white and the 

 latter with yellow ; occiput bright yellow; rump 

 yellowish olive xantholophua. 



It appears that in following von Heuglin with regard 

 to M. spodocephalus, I had taken for granted that he was 

 acquainted with the species; this no^v turns out not to have 

 been the case, von Heuglin^s so-called M. spodocephalus being 

 nothing more than what has been termed the red-bellied 

 variety of M. goertan, which, in my opinion^ is nothing but 

 the adult bird of that species. I append a full description 



