108 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
PICOIDES, Lacep. 
tridactylus (Linn.). Eight. 54 (2jr.),39. Norway (Kjerringoe, July). 
Sweden, May and June ; (Tinapong, January). 
all a subsp. crissoleucus (Bp.). One. ¢. Siberia (Lake Baikal, 
Tay). 
eo Baird. 
americanus, Brehm. Four. 3 ¢ (1 jr.),?. Labrador. North-West 
Territory, Alberta, June. 
americanus, subsp. alascensis, Nelson. 
arcticus (Swains.). Eight. 3¢,59. Canada (Hudson’s Bay ; North-West 
Territory, Alberta, Edmonton, November ; Ontario, Trout Lake). United 
States (Maine, Bangor, April ; Illinois, Chicago, April). 
funebris, Verr. 
ZENOPICUS, Baird. 
albolarvatus (Cass.). Three. ¢, 9. United States (California, Fort 
Crook, March ; Oregon, Fort Klamath, October, November). 
DENDROCOPTES, Cab. & Heine. 
medius (Linn.). One. 9 jr. 
sancti-johannis (Blunf.). ( = Picus medius, Linn. Tristr. Cat. Coll. Birds, 
p- 101). One. ¢. Asia Minor. 
LIOPICUS, Bp. 
mahrattensis (Zuth.). Thirteen. 6 ¢ (1 jr.), 72. Northern India 
(Depalpore, January ; Darjeeling ; Maunbhoom, March). Southern India 
(Neilgherries ; Nellore). 
No. 7, 2 (= 3964 Lord Derby’s Mus.), labelled by Dr. Latham, Mahratta Wood- 
pecker, is possibly a Type of the species. 
DENDROPICUS, Malh. 
cardinalis (Gm.). ( = D. zanziburi, Malh., Tristr. Cat. Coll. Birds, p. 103). 
Eighteen. 114,792. South Africa (Transvaal: Rustenberg, July ; De 
Kaap, Bonanza Valley, May ; Avoca Valley, June; Natal: Pinetown ; 
Limpopo R., July ; Zululand, July). 
cardinalis, subsp. zanzibari, Malh. Four. 6, 39. Central Africa 
(Kikombo, May ; Nyssaland, Zomba, July, August, October). 
minutus (Zemm.). One. ¢. Senegal. 
hemprichi (Zirenb.). Two. ¢, 9. Abyssinia, October. 
These two specimens were collected by Dr. Riippell. 
lafresnayi, Malh. One. 9. West Africa. 
sharpii, Oust. 
reichenowi, Sjéstedt, Ornith. Monatsber. i. p. 138 (1893) ; id. Svenska, Vet.-Ak. Handl. 
(27. No. 1), pl. 4 fig. 2 (1895) ; Shelley, Birds Africa, i. p. 132 (1896). 
‘*Back yellowish green; wing feathers dull brown; the external margin of the 
primaries towards the base (with the exception of the first two), the external 
web of the secondaries, and the whole of the tertials of the same colour as the 
back ; shafts of the wing feathers brownish black, yellowish beneath ; primaries 
pale yellowish, with from two to four spots on the outer web, their inner webs, 
as well as those of the secondaries, with large whitish spcts ; forehead to the 
hinder margin of the eyes brown, strongly tinged with green ; occiput scarlet ; 
beneath pale yellowish green, broadly striped with dull green, lower part of the 
flanks barred with the same colour ; throat, neck, and sides of head whitish, 
barely tinged with green and less striped than the abdomen; tail feathers 
dull brown above, greenish beneath, their edges tinged with yellowish green 
towards the base ; lateral tail feathers paler, spotted with yellowish white on their 
