
CATALOGUE OF PICI. 91 
There is no character in the above description by which, as it seems to us, this 
species can be distinguished from young specimens of 7’. hirsutum, with which, 
indeed, Dr. Reichenow states he had formerly placed it. 
ansorgii, Shelley, Bull. B.O.C. xxix. p. iii. (1895); id. Ibis, 1896, p. 133. 
“Similar to 7. hirsutum, but to be distinguished by the flanks being more broadly 
spotted with black, very slightly (minime) barred with white. Total length, 
6°3 inches ; wing, 3°5.” (Shelley). Habitat. Uganda. 
N.B.—There are no white bands on the flanks of 7. hirsutum. 
gabonense, Shelley, Bull. B.O.C. xxix. p. iii. (1895) ; id. Ibis, 1896, p. 133. 
“Similar to 7’. hirsutum, but to be distinguished by its browner colour, and by the 
absence of white markings on the sides of the face. Total length, 7°3 inches ; 
culmen, 0°95; wing, 3°6; tail, 2:1; tarsus, 0°9.” (Shelley). Habitat. Gaboon. 
Cameroons. 
Reichenow apparently recognises as distinct (J.f.0., 1896, p. 53) 7. flavipunctata, 
Verr., which Shelley has included in the synonymy of 7. hirsutum. He also sug- 
gests (Ornith. Monatsber iv. p. 76) that 7. gabonense, Shelley, may prove to be 
a synonym of 7’. flavipunctata, Verr. 
stigmatothorax (Cab.). 
blandi, Lort-Phillips, Bull. B.O.C. xlv. p. xlvii. (1897); id. Ibis, 1898, p. 415, pl. ix. fig. 1. 
“Like 7. stiymatothorax, but easily distinguished by the absence of a red pectoral 
spot, and by the pileum and feathers of the throat being markedly tipped with 
white. Total length, 4°6 inches; wing, 2°5; tail, 1:3; culmen, 0°6; tarsus, 0°8. 
Habitat. Goolis Mountains, Somaliland.” (Lort-Phillips). 
melanocephalum (C7retzsch.). One. Abyssinia (Bogos-Land). 
lachrymosum (Cui.). One. @. Central Africa (Kikombo). 
affine (She//ey). 
flavibuccale, Rehnw. Ornith. Monatsber. i. p. 30 (1893). 
“Like 7. affine (Shelley), but with the anterior portion of the lower cheeks sulphur 
yellow, the abdomen without spots, and the black on the throat less extended. 
._. . Total length, about 130 mmn.; wing, 70; tail, 42; bill, 16; tarsus, 19.” 
(Reichenow). Habitat. Wembaere Steppe, Eastern Africa. 
leucomelan (Bodd.). Ten. ¢. South Africa (Zambesi; Great Namaqua- 
land). 
diadematum (Heugl.). One. @. Central Africa (Lado, July). 
frontatum (Cab.); masaicum (Rehnvw.). 
GYMNOBUCCO, Bp. 
calvus (Lafr.). One. ¢&. West Africa. 
cinereiceps, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 122; id. op. cit. 1892, p. 310; id. tom. cit. p. 555. 
*“Brown above and beneath, with paler brown margins to the feathers ry wing 
feathers brown; tail blackish; head entirely dark, slaty grey ; throat lighter 
ashy grey, as well as the sides of the neck; two frontal tufts of dark sandy 
colour; the forehead streaked with straw yellow. Total length, 7 inches ; 
culmen, 0°85; wing, 4:0; tail, 2°4; tarsus, 0°9.” (Sharpe). Habitat. Mt. Elgon, 
East Africa (Jackson). 
HELIOBUCCO, Shelley. 
bonapartii (Har?/.). 
SMILORHIS, Sundev. 
leucotis (Sundev.); bocagii, Souza; kilimensis, Shelley. 
whytii, Shelley, Ibis, 1893, p. 11, pl. 1; ad. op. cit. 1894, p. 9. 
One. Central Africa (Nyassaland, Zomba, November). 
“Head and neck black; feathers of the forehead and crown without elongated 
shafts, and many of them having very minute white tips; rictal bristles white ; 
a broad white band on the cheeks beneath the bare skin of the sides of the head ; 
a fairly large white chin patch; body above and beneath brown, with partial 
pale edges to the feathers, and passing into white on the centre of the abdomen, 
thighs and under tail-coverts ; wings dark brown, with a patch of white on the 
least wing-coverts and with partial white edges to the greater wing-coverts and 
