of the Ethiopian Region. 439 



& Reichenow, J. f. O. 1877, p. 207 ; id. op. cit. 1878, p. 254 ; 

 Fischer, torn. cit. p. 292. 



Dendrobates cardinalis, Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 368; 

 Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 392 (1882). 



Adult male. Above dull olive barred with yellow, the sca- 

 pulars having whiter barring; wing-coverts umber-brown 

 (brighter yellowish olive along the forearm), with deep olive 

 cross-markings and spots of whitish ; bastard-wing and pri- 

 mary-coverts dusky brown; quills dusky brown, the outer 

 webs of the primaries at their base and those of the secon- 

 daries along their whole length tinged with olive and minutely 

 spotted or narrowly barred with dull white, the inner webs 

 spotted and those of the inner quills barred with pure white ; 

 shafts light golden yellow; rump dull olive banned with yel- 

 lowish ; upper tail-coverts golden, with faint olive bars and 

 slightly tipped with red ; central pair of rectrices golden olive- 

 brown, narrowly barred with buff, the remainder nearly black, 

 the inner portion of the webs being olive, obliquely barred 

 with buify white ; shafts golden yellow ; sinciput pale umber- 

 brown, the feathers having lighter tips ; posterior part of the 

 crown and occipital crest scarlet, the bases of the feathers 

 dusky ; nape dusky, the feathers tipped with white ; lores 

 and superciliary stripe extending to the nape white ; sides of 

 the face and neck white, narrowly streaked with blackish; 

 moustachial stripe dusky brown; chin and throat white, 

 sparingly streaked with blackish ; entire undcrparts dull 

 white, with a slight tinge of yellow and broadly streaked 

 with black ; flanks and thighs barred with blackish ; under 

 tail-coverts like the underparts, but barred as well as streaked 

 with blackish brown ; under surface of the tail washed with 

 golden; under wing-coverts yellowish white, streaked and 

 barred with black; axillaries white, slightly edged with 

 blackish ; " iris red ; bill lead-colour ; legs dull green " 

 {T. Ayres). Total length 6'0 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 

 3*75, tail 1'8, tarsus 0*63; toes (without claws) — outer ante- 

 rior 0'45, outer posterior 0'55, inner anterior 0*35, inner 

 posterior 0'25. 



Adult female. Diflferent from the male in having nearly the 



