of the Ethiopian Region. 435 



Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0*68, wing 3"0, tail 1*68, 

 tarsus 0*55 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*45, outer 

 posterior 0"55^ inner anterior 0-37, inner posterior 0'23. 



Adult female. Different from the adult male in having the 

 sinciput darker umber-brown^ and the posterior half of the 

 crown and the occiput brownish black ; the sinciput devoid 

 of the light spotting. Total length 5*3 inches, culmen 0*7, 

 wing 3"2, tail 1*55, tarsus 0-55. 



Heuglin states that this species is not rare in pairs on 

 the Abyssinian and Adel coasts, and is found throughout 

 Senaar and Kordofan to the Lower White Nile. In 

 Central Abyssinia and the Gala country he found it as 

 high as 10,000 or 11,000 feet. Mr. Blanford met with it 

 near Undul Wells, in the pass below Senafe, and again in 

 the Lebka valley, in the Bogos country, and we have seen 

 several specimens collected by Mr. Esler in the latter country. 

 Mr. Jesse also procured this species at Eylet and Rairo, in 

 Bogos Land. The late Captain Speke met with it on the plateau 

 in Somali Land, and Bianconi has recorded it from Southern 

 Mosambique. We should have expected the bird from the 

 last-named place to have been D. zanzibari ; but Dr. Hart- 

 laub states that he examined the specimens in the Museum 

 at Bologna, and that they were undoubtedly D. he7uprichii. 



The present bird is distinguished by the brown and white 

 barred plumage above, the blood-red upper tail-coverts, the 

 silvery white of the face, throat, and neck, and the dull white 

 of the underparts, the breast being streaked, the remainder 

 spotted and barred with dusky. 



Malherbe, in his monograph (pi. xliii. fig. 5), gives an 

 illustration of the male ; but this seems to me to resemble D. 

 zanzibari more than D. hemprichii. In the latter sjjecies the 

 nape is browoiish black, and this Malherbe has omitted in 

 his figure. 



8. Dendropicus minutus. 



Picus minutus, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 197. fig. 2 (1823) ; Steph. 

 Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 163 (1826) ; Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 28 

 (1827) ; Lesson, Traite, 1831, p. 220; Sundev. Consp. Av. 

 Picin. p. 44 (1866) ; Ileugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 805 (1871). 



