of the Ethiopian Region. 407 



a^. With a broad auricular stripe of black and a 

 second broad moustachial baud, tlie two not 



meeting on the side of the neck namaquus. 



If, Auricular band uniting with moustachial band 



on the side of the neck schoensis. 



'. Forehead ashy gTey; crown and occiput redj 



rump red. 

 c^. Centre of abdomen yellow, somotimes with a 



sUght tinge of red goertan. 



(P. Entire abdomen conspicuously red, extending 



onto the breast spodocephalus. 



b. Shafts of quills and of rectrices black above, yellow 



or light brown below. 



c\ Forehead, crown, and occiput, as well as the rump 



red. 



e*. Above and below uniform golden olive, without 



moustachial or auricular stripes ; face and 



throat slaty grey ; lower part of abdomen 



centred with red (jriscocephalus. 



f^. Above uniform golden olive ; below dingy buffy 

 white, striped and varied -svith black ; a black 

 moustache and auricular stripe ; face and 

 throat buffy white 5 a median stripe of red 

 down the breast and the whole of the ab- 

 domen jyyrvhogaster. 



d}. Forehead and crown dark umber- brown, the fea- 

 thers of the former tipped with white and the 

 latter with yellow ; occiput bright yellow ; 

 rump yellowish olive xantholophus. 



1. Mesopicus namaquus. 



Pious namaquus, Licht. Cat. rer. Nat. Hamb. p. 17. no. 179 

 (1793); Suiidev. Cousp. Av. Picin. p. 42. no. 122 (1866); 

 Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 507 (1870). 



Pic a moustaches noires, Temm. Cat. Syst. 1807, p. 213. 



Le Pic a double moustache. Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi. p. 22, 

 pis. 251, 252 (1808) ; Sundev. Krit. Framst. Levaill. p. 52 

 (1857). 



Picus mystaceus, Vieill. N. Diet. d^Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 73 

 (1818) ; Bonn. & Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1307 (1823). 



Picus punctatus, Vieill. (nee Cuv.) N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 xxvi. p 89 (1818) ; Bonn. & Vieill. Ene. Meth. iii. p. 1316 

 (1823); Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 37 (1827, ex Vieill.j. 



