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Dencb'ojncus poliocephalus, Plartl. Orn.W. Afr. p. 179 (1857) . 



Dendropicus goertae, Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. p. 179 (1857) ; 

 Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. Q7 (1868); id. Hand-1. B. ii. 

 p. 190. no. 8658 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 1871, p. 18; 

 Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 131. 



Mesopicus poicephalus, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 48 

 (1862). 



Mesopicus immaculatus, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 47 

 (1862) ; Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1863, p. 324. 



Dendrocopus poliocephalus, Reichenow, J. f. 0. 1877, p. 18. 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, bright golden 

 olive ; wing-coverts more brownish olive, the outer feathers 

 of the greater series spotted with buffy white ; bastard-wing 

 and primary-coverts brown, the outer webs of the inner pri- 

 maries, as well as the outer webs of all the secondaries, 

 partially margined with or entirely golden olive, the quills 

 spotted along the margin of both webs, the spotting on the 

 outer primaries and upon the inner webs of all the feathers 

 being white, the spotting on the outer webs of the secondaries 

 yellowish; inner secondaries almost uniform; shafts dark 

 brown; rump and upper tail-coverts bright scarlet; tail 

 brown, the penultimate feather spotted along the margin of 

 the outer web and upon the apical portion of the inner with 

 buffy white, the next inner feather being similarly spotted 

 on the outer web only ; dwarf feather brownish olive ; shafts 

 brownish black ; nasal plumes and forehead grey ; crown and 

 occipital crest bright scarlet, the feathers having grey bases ; 

 hind neck greyish olive ; lores, sides of the face and neck, 

 chin and throat silver-grey ; underparts more ashy, with a 

 tinge of yellow; the lower part of the abdomen brighter 

 yellow, tinged with orange-red ; under tail-coverts like the 

 underparts, but striped with brown; under wing-coverts 

 buffy white, with irregular transverse dusky-brown markings; 

 axillaries dull white, very faintly barred with dusky brown. 

 Total length 7*5 inches, culmen 1*05, wing 4*2, tail 2*5, 

 tarsus 0"75; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0'5, outer 

 posterior 0-62, inner anterior 0*4, inner posterior 0"25. 



Adult female. Different from the adult male in having the 



