430 Mr. E. Hargitt on the fVoodpechers 



pi. xlii. figs. 5 &6 (1861); Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 1868, 

 p. 65. 



Ipoctonus abyssinicus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 116 

 (1863). 



Picus habessinicus, Hengl. Orn, N.O.-Afr. p. 806 (1870, 

 ex Cabanis). 



Dendropicus abyssinicus, Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 189, 

 no. 8652 (1870); Ileugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. p. clxvii (1871). 



Adult male. Above yellowish olive ; vertex, occiput, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts red ; sides of the head whitish, with 

 two bands of smoky brown ; wing-coverts and quills dusky, 

 spotted on the margins of both webs with a whitish rufescent 

 colour ; tail-feathers dusky brown, banded above with a 

 beautiful buffy rufous colour, below Avith yellowish ; throat 

 whitish, with some dusky brown streaks ; breast and abdo- 

 men dull olivaceous white, closely striated with dingy brown ; 

 under wing-coverts whitish, with a few scattered spots of 

 blackish ; bill and feet dusky blackish. Total length 6" 3'", 

 wing 3" 9'", tail 2", culmen 8^'", tai'sus 9'". {Heuylin.) 



Adult female. With the sinciput greyish dusky ; the vertex 

 and occiput dark blackish dusky ; the back paler olivaceous. 

 {Heuglin.) 



As far as I am aware, this species is unrepresented in 

 any collection in this country, but cxaraj)lcs are to be found 

 in the Paris Museum. Heuglin also says that he never met 

 with it himself ; but the type specimen was described by the 

 late Lord Derby, and was collected during Salt^s expedition 

 to Abyssinia. 



The specimen originally described by Malherbe as Meso- 

 picus desmui'si was supposed to come from South America; 

 but the mistake was afterwards rectified in his monograph. 

 A species has more recently been described under the name 

 of Picus desmursi, from China. 



According to Cabanis there is an example of D. abyssinicus 

 in the Munich Museum, without locality. 



5. Dendropicus melanauchen. 



Picus melanauchen, Heugl. Ocu. N.O.-Afr. p. 808 (1871). 



