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Nigeria, ? (tvv^o) 84 & 79; Gold Coast, S (four) 88-82; 

 Sierra Leone, ^ (two) 81 & 80 ; Gambia, ? (one) 81 ; 

 Portuguese Guinea, ^ (one) 79, ? (one) 81 mm. 

 Range. Nigeria to Gambia. 



Dendropicos lakresnayi loand^. 



Dendropicos lafresnayi loandce C. Grant, Bull. B. O. C. 

 vol. XXXV. 1913, p. 101 : Loanda, Angola. 



Differs from D. I. lafresnayi by having the green of tlie 

 back very similar to D. a. Iiartlaubii ; the mantle always 

 barred, the barring being rather less submerged tlian in 

 either D. I. lafresnayi or D. a. Iiartlaubii ; rump tinged with 

 red ; below, streaks narrower and the abdomen clearer 

 (less streaked). 



Type in the British Museum : $ ad. Loanda, Angola, 

 May 1869. J. J. Monteiro coll. Wing 85, culmen 19, 

 tail 43, tarsus 14 mm. 



The wing-measurements give the following result : — 

 Loanda and north Angola^ (J (six) 89-85, ? (six) 89- 

 87 mm. 



A female from Malange has a wing of 93 mm., and though 

 having the underparts of this race, in size and the markings 

 of the upper parts agrees more with D. f. fuscescens; and it 

 would therefore appear that the two forms grade into each 

 other in that district, and that there is a link between the 

 D. fuscescens group and D. lafresnayi group, as pointed out 

 further on. 



Range. Loanda district, Angola. 



This race differs from D. f fuscescens in being greener 

 above, having the barring of the mantle more submerged 

 and the streaks on the breast much less broad. It might 

 almost, with equal truth, be placed as a subspecies of that 

 group, but its semi-submerged barring and greener appear- 

 ance brings it nearer to the D. lafresnayi group. 



The division of these streak-breasted Woodpeckers under 

 two headings and into three groups appears to simplify the 

 nomenclature and races, causing them to work out in a 

 geographically correct manner^ 



