410 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



of the plumage dusky, having scarcely a trace of olive, with 

 the markings of the adult; upper tail-coverts less golden ; 

 tail duller and the barring more distinct ; the shafts paler, 

 those of the wing-feathers being nearly white ; the dusky 

 barring of the underparts narrower, especially the feathers 

 of the vent and under tail-coverts; iris pinkish brown (on 

 label). 



The Bearded Woodpecker does not appear to inhabit 

 the Cape Colony or Natal; but was procured by Mr. T. E. 

 Buckley in Swazi Land, and I have seen specimens from the 

 Transvaal and Matabele Land, as well as from the Makalaka 

 country to the south of the Zambesi. Sir John Kirk found 

 it on the Shire river; and I have a specimen in my collec- 

 tion said to have been obtained in the Schimba Mountains, 

 near Zanzibar. If this locality be correct, the range of 

 M. namaquus would appear to reach that of M. schoensis on 

 the east coast ; but further research is necessary to verify this 

 statement. On the west coast this species occurs from 

 Damara Land, through Ondonga, to Benguela and Mossa- 

 medes ; it also extends into Angola proper, having been 

 procured by Sala at Galungo. 



2. Mesopicus schoensis. 



Picus [Dendrohates) schoensis, Riipp. Mas. Sencken. iii. 

 p. 124 (1842); Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 509 (1870). 



Dendrobates schoensis, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. 1845, p. 88, 

 pi. xxxiii; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1849); Bp. Consp. Gen. 

 Av. i. p. 124 (1850); Heugl. Syst. Uebers. 1856, p. 47; 

 Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 593. 



Dendropicos schoensis, Malh. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1819, 

 p. 339. 



Dendropicus schoensis, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 

 (1854); Malh. Monogr. Picid. i. p. 195, pi. xlii. fig. 8 (1861) ; 

 Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 70 (1868); id. Hand-1. B. ii. 

 p. 190. no. 8665 (1870). 



Campethera schoensis, Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picina?, 

 p. 122, pi. delxxii. figs. 4447-1418 (1854). 



