460 Mr. C. H. B. Grant on a Collection of 



the dark markings, both above and below ; white barring of 

 mantle and wings tinged with isabelline, upper tail-coverts 

 golden isabelline, the apical half red. 



Type in British Museum : ^ ad., Senegal. R. B. Sharpe 

 coll. Wing 81, culraen 19, tail 36, tarsus 15 mm. 



Named in honour of Capt. G. P. Cosens. 



This specimen, though a single one, differs so markedly 

 in general appearance from D.f.fuscescens and its two races, 

 and comes from so remote a locality, that I have been 

 compelled to recognise it as a distinct subspecies. 



Range. Senegal. 



II. Barring of mantle and wings either absent or submerged, 

 not clear and well defined. Appearance of upper 

 surface more green and olive, not black and white. 



Dendropicos abvssijvicus abyssinicus. 



Picus abyssinicus Stanley, Salt's Voy. Abyss. 1814, p. Ivi : 

 Abyssinia. 



Through the kindness of Dr. Clubb of the Liverpool 

 Museum I have been enabled to examine Stanley's type, 

 which is a male and has a wing of 95 mm. It agrees 

 exactly with the five specimens in the British Museum 

 collection. 



Size large, mantle without any appearance of barring, 

 rump and upper tail-coverts red. 



The wing-measurement gives the following result : 

 ^ (five) 98-93 mm. 



Range. Abyssinia. 



Dendropicos abyssinicus hartlaubii. 



Dendropicos hartlaubii Alalli. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1849, 

 p. 532 : Zanzibar. Wing given as 91 and 87 mm. 



Of this Dendropicos zanzibari Malh. (Pic. vol. i. 1861, 

 p. 201 : Zanzibar) becomes a synonym. 



Size large ; above clear green, light bars of mantle arul 

 wings narrow and submerged, rump green ; below strongly 

 tinged with yellow, streaks rather narrow. 



Wing-measurements are as follows : — Zanzibar, J (two) 



