304 Mr. W. K. Ogllvie Grant on Birds 



XVI. — On the Birds collected during an Expedition through 

 Somaliland and Sonthern Abyssinia to the Blue Nile. 

 By W. 11. Ogilvie Grant, With Field-notes by Lord 

 LovAT*. — Part II. 



[Plates IV.-VL] 

 [Continued from p. 178.1 



168. Mesopicus spodocephalus. 



Dendrobates poicephalus Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 86, pi. 34 

 (1845). 



Mesopicus spodocephalus (Bonap.) ; Hargitt, Cat, B. Brit. 

 Mus. xviii, p. 370 (1890). 



The immature female is in very worn plumage and differs 

 from the adult in having the back mostly brownish, tinged 

 here and there with golden yellow, the breast and belly 

 indistinctly barred with white, with only a trace of the red 

 stripe down the middle. 



This species is new to the British Museum Collection. 



a. $ . Burka, Abyssinia, 6 January, 1899. (No. 129.) 



b. S- Tchlea, '„ 8 March,' 1 899. (No, 383.) 



c. ? juv. Blue Nile, 13 May, 1899. (No. 507.) 

 Iris brow^n ; bill and legs slate-colour. 



169. Campothera nubica. 



Campothera nubica (Gm.) ; Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xviii. p. 93 (1890) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 492; Lort 

 Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 415 (N. Somaliland) ; Hawker, Ibis, 

 1899, p, 74. 



a. S ■ Kassim river, Abyssinia, 19 January, 1899. (No. 

 234.) 



Iris brown ; bill and legs dark brown. 



170. Dendropicus simoni. 



Dendropicus simoni Grant, Bull. B. O. C. vol. x. p. xxxviii 

 (1900). 



* Sporceginthus margaritcB ^^■eld-Blundell & Lovat (see Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 130, pi. iii. fig. 1) is synonymous with Estrilda ochrogaster Salvad. 

 Boll. Mus. Toriuo, xii. no. 287, p. 4 (1897). The latter description had 

 been overlooked till Captain Shelley kindly called my attention to it. 

 The species shonld stand as Sporrpginthusi ochrogaster (Salvad.). 



