416 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Dendrobates spodocephalus , Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 125 

 (1850); Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 393 (1882). 



Mesopicus spodocephalus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 

 (1854); Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. p. 180, note (1856); Malh. 

 Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 49, pi. Ixiii. figs. 4, 5 (1862) ; Cass. 

 Proc. Acad. Pbilad. 1863, p. 324 ; Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. 

 p. 78 (1864). 



Scolecutheres spodocephalus, Reichenb. Handb. Scans. 

 Picin^e, p. 427, pi. dclxxvi. figs. 4471, 4472 (1854) ; Cab. & 

 Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 137 (1863). 



Picus spodocephalus, Brehm, J. f. O. 1854, p. 78; Sundev. 

 Consp. Av. Picin. p. 45. no. 133a (1866) ; Heugl. Orn. 

 N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 813 (1871). 



Dendrobates goertan, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxiv. p. 255 

 (1855). 



Dendropicus spodocephalus, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 68 (1868); id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 190. no. 8660 (1870); 

 Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. p. clxvii (1871). 



Adult male. Above olive-yellowish, with the forehead, nape, 

 sides of the head and neck ashy grey ; crown scarcely crested 

 at all ; the nape, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright crimson; 

 breast and abdomen pale olive-grey, the latter bright yellow 

 in the middle, tinged with red ; the sides, with the under 

 tail-coverts, banded with pale whitish ; quills and wing- 

 coverts dusky brown, marked with rather large whitish spots, 

 having the appearance of bands ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 tinged with yellow below, the first and second banded with 

 white on the inner and outer webs, the third on the outer 

 web only, the rest more obsoletely marked in the same 

 way ; bill and feet dusky bluish ; iris dusky. Total length 

 7" 5'", bill from front lOV", wing 4", tail 2" 5'", tarsus 7^'". 

 {Heuglin.) 



Adidt female. Smaller than the male, with the head 

 uniform grey; abdomen, under tail-coverts, wings, and sca- 

 pulars more conspicuously banded with white. [Heuglin.) 



I have not been able to examine a specimen of this 

 species, which I know consequently only from Biippell's 

 plate and Heuglin^s descriptions. If the former were to be 



