of the Ethiopian Region. 403 



¥. Nasal liue situated liigli in the mandible and much 

 nearer to the culmen than to the cutting-edge of 

 the mandible, and vanishing gradually on the 

 fore part of the bill • Campothera. 



1. Geocolaptes. 1'yp«- 



Geocolaptes, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Am. Birds, 



p. 315 (1831) G. ulivaceus. 



Agripicus, Malh. lutr. Moiiogr. Picid. p. liii 



(1861) G. olivaceus. 



Geocolaptes olivaceus. 



Crimson-breasted Woodpecker, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, 

 p. 599 (1783). 



Picus olivaceus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 431 (1788, ex Lath.); 

 Less. Traite, p. 218 (1831). 



Le Pic Laboureur, Levaill. Gis. d'Afr. vi. p. 27, pis. 254, 

 255 (1808); Sundev. Krit. Framst. Levaill. p. 52 (1857). 



Picus arator, Cuvier, Regne Anim. i. p. 423, ex Levail- 

 lant (1817); Wagler, Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 86 (1827); Sun- 

 dev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. .68 (1866); Giebel, Thes. Orn. ii. 

 p. 141 (1876). 



Picus terrestris, Burch. Trav. in South Afr. i. p. 254 

 (1824). 



Colaptes olivaceus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 171 (1826); 

 Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 446 (1846) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 239 

 (1867); Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 123 (1868); id. 

 Hand-1. B. ii. p. 203. no. 8837 (1870). 



Geocolaptes terrestris, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Am. Birds, 

 p. 315 (1831, ex Burch.), note; id. Classif. B. ii. p. 389 

 (1837). 



Geocolaptes olivaceus, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 55 ; 

 Licht. Noinencl. Av. Berol. p. 77 (1854); Gurney, Ibis, 

 1868, p. 462; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 18 (1871); Sundev. 

 Av. Meth. Tent. p. 73 (1872); Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 368; 

 Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 187(1875); Butler, Feilden, 



find its place near Dendrojncm ; but of this I have no means of judgino-, 

 as the onh' specimen known is in Philfidelphia. 



