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Muséum and are not included hère. As there is no separate list of 

 Ansorge's s. Nigérian collection it would hâve taken too much 

 time and entailed too nuich trouble to search out ail thèse spéci- 

 mens. Nevertheless I am doubtful if many of the species obtained 

 hâve been oniitted froin this list. 



I would like specially to thank Dr. H. Schouteden for so cour- 

 teouslv permitting me to publish such a lengthv paper in this 

 valuable Journal. I trust mv work vvill assist him in some small 

 measure to name the magnificent collection of birds which I under- 

 stand he has brought back with him from his récent visit to the 

 Belgian Congo. D. A. B. (July 1922). 



SYSTEMATIC LIST (PART II). 



Order PICIFORMES 

 Family PICIDAE. 



Dendromus permistus permistus. 



Picus [Campothera) permistus Kchw, J. f. O., 1876, p. 97. - 

 Tvpe localitv : Gaboon. 



The spécimen of the Promiscuously-banded Woodpecker which 

 Mr W. P. LowE obtained near Lagos is an undoubted example of 

 I). p. permistus — the first record from Nigeria and ot spécial 

 interest from the distributional point of view. Earlv writers named 

 thèse woodpeckers D. maculosus (Valenc.) confusing two forms. 

 Reichenow pointed out the error and showed that the Gaboon- 

 Cameroon-Belgian Congo bird could be distinguished from D. 

 maailosus by having the under wing-coverts and axillaries spotted 

 or banded with black, whereas in D. maculosus the under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries are uniform unspotted yellowish-buff. 



Reichenow gave the range oi D. p. permistus {Vôg. Afr., II, 

 p. 170) as the Gold Coast to Angola, eastward to Niam-Niam, 



