418 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p. 236. no. 31 (1790) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. 

 ix. p. 189. 



Le Pic Olive, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi. p. 16, pis. ccxlviii., 

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

 Picus caniceps, Wagl. Syst. Av. sp. 46 (1827). 

 Picus obscurus, Wagl. Syst. Av. sp. 90 (1827). 

 Dendrobates capensis, Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 151 (1837) ; 

 Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 125 (1850). 



Dendrobates griseocephalus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1819); 

 Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 236 (1867). 



Chrysocolaptes menstruus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 21 

 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. p. 122 (1850) ; id. Consp. 

 Volucr. Zygod. p. 10 (1854) ; Reiclienb. Handb. Scans. 

 Picin«, p. 400, pi. dcliv. fig. 4356 (1854). 



Mesopicus capensis, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854) ; 

 Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 42, pi. xlii. figs. 7, 8 (1862). 



Mesopicus griseocephalus, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1863, 

 p. 324. 



Scolecotheres menstruus, Cab. & Heine, Mns. Hein. iv. 

 p. 131 (1863). 



Dendropicus menstruus. Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mas, p. 67 

 (1868); id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 190. no. 8657 (1870); Sliarpe, 

 Cat. Afr. B. p. 18 (1871); id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 191 

 (1875) ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 200 ; Butler, Feilden, & Reid, 

 Zoologist, 1882, p. 208. 



Mesopicus menstruus, Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 432. 

 Dendrobates menstruus, Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 393 

 (1882). 



Adult male. Upper parts, including scapulars and wing- 

 coverts, uniform golden olive, the inner webs of the greater 

 series being ashy brown; quills blackish brown, the outer 

 webs edged with golden olive, this colour being more deve- 

 loped on the secondaries ; inner webs spotted with white, 

 shafts brownish black ; rump and upper tail-coverts scarlet ; 

 tail imiform blackish brown, shafts black ; crown and occi- 

 pital crest scarlet; forehead, lores, and entire side of the 

 face, also chin and throat, ashy grey ; f oi'e neck and chest 

 golden olive, washed with dull red ; underparts olive mixed 



