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



p. 86, the locality for which is given as Shoa, cf. p. 95 ; 

 therefore that locality must stand for the type, and there 

 is no doubt that Afr. occ. of Bonaparte is a printer's error 

 for Africa orientalis. 



Chest and flanks washed with olive-green. 



Range. Abyssinia. 



Mesopicus spodocephalus rhodeogaster. 



Picus {Mesopicus) rhodeogaster Fischer & Reichw. op. cit. 



Chest and flanks distinctly greyer. 



Range. British East Africa and northern German East 

 Africa. 



In the original description the authors say that the " red 

 belly-streak extends to the breast " ; this character is, how- 

 ever, equally noticeable in Abyssinian birds ; also that 

 *' the grey of the head and underside is somewhat darker." 

 The underside is certainly greyer than Abyssinian birds, Ijut 

 whether this would be considered darker as compared to 

 the olive-green wash of the otlier bird, is an arguable point; 

 the mantle is not appreciably " intensiver goldgelb,'"' and 

 the mixed red on the mantle is an individual character. 



Tills race, though but slightly difterentiated from the 

 typical foi'm, can stand because of the somewhat greyer 

 underparts. 



211, Jynx torquilla torquilla. European Wryneck. 



Jynx torquilla Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 112: 

 Sweden. See also pi. i. fig. 78 of the Faun. Svec. 



a. ? ad. Falabek, 2600 ft. Feb. 24. 



Total length in flesh : 7h inches. Wing : 86 mm. 



This specimen is moulting into new dress. 



[I rides brown ; bill greyish horn ; legs and toes greyish 

 flesh. Scarce.] 



Dr. Hartert, in his Vog. palaarkt. Fauna, vol. ii. 1912, 

 pp. 937-941, has discussed the following forms of the 

 Common Wryneck : — Jynx torquilla tschusii Kleins. Falco, 

 1907, part 6, p. 103 : Sardinia (Kleinschmidt has given no 

 measurements, nor has he designated a type in his original 

 description, he gives the wing as 85-82 mm.) ; Ji/nx 



