of the Ethiopian Region. 437 



D. minutus has been stated to have been obtained by 

 Arnaiid on the Upper White Nile. Heuglin thinks that he 

 saw it on the Gazelle river, and obtained a specimen from 

 Mareb which he referred to this species, but which he thinks 

 may have been confounded with D. obsoletus. 



9. Dendropicus cardinalis. 



Le Pic Cardinal de I'IsIe de Lucon, Sonn. Voy. Nouv. 

 Guiu. i. p. 72, pi. xxxy. (J 776). 



Le Grand Pic varie de risk de Liu^on, Buff. Hist. Nat. 

 Ois. vii. p. 403. 



Picus auineensis, Scop. Del. Fl. et Faun. Insubr. ii. p. 89 

 (1786, ex Soun.) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 435 (1845). 



Cardinal Woodpecker, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 576. no. 22 

 (1788, ex Sonn.). 



Picns cardinalis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 438. no. 51 (1788, ex 

 Sonn.) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 233 (1790) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. 

 ix. p. 176 (1815) ; Bonn. & Vieill. Euc. Meth. iii. p. 1308 

 (1823); Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 91 (1827); Sundev. 

 Cousp. Av. Picin. p. 42. no. 124 (1866). 



Le Petit Pic d baguettes d'or, Temm. Cat. Syst. Cabin. 

 Orn. 1807, p. 212; Levaill. Ois. d^Afr. vi. p. 25, pi. ccliii. 

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



Picus fuscescens, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 86 

 (1818, ex Levaill.) ; Bonn. & Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1314 

 (1823). 



Picus fulviscapus, Licht. Verz. Doubl. 1823, p. 11; Wagl. 

 Syst. Av. no. 45 (1827) ; id. Isis, p. 513 (1829) ; Rupp. Neue 

 Wirb. Vog. p. 89 (1835) ; Licht. Verz. Saugeth. und Vog. 

 Kaffernl. 1842, p. 18 ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. pp. 11-44 (1858) ; 

 Shelley (pt.), P. Z. S. 1881, p. 593. 



Colaptes capensis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 171 (1826). 



Picus chrijsopterus, Cuv. in Mus. Paris ; Less. Traite, 1831, 

 p. 220; id. Corapl. Buff. ix. p. 303 (1837). 



Dendrobates fulviscapus , Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 306 (1837) ; 

 Gray, List Gen. 1841, p. 70; id. Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1846) ; 

 Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 124 (1850) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. 

 1867, p. 237. 



