444 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Sir John Kirk, whose specimens I have examined in the 

 British Museum, states that this species is frequent in all 

 woods on the Zambesi and in the Shire valley. I have 

 seen many specimens from Eastern Africa in Capt. Shelley^s 

 collection : they were from the Pangani river, Usambara 

 hills, and Dar-es-Salaam, all collected by Sir John. Kirk. 

 I have already noticed, under the heading of D. cardinalis, 

 that the bird obtained at Ugogo by the last-named gentleman 

 should be referred to D. cardinalis instead of to the present 

 species, which occurs as high as Mombas. In South-west 

 Africa D. zanzibari is found from the Congo to Loanda ; but 

 the form which is met with in Damara Land should, in my 

 opinion, be referred to true D. cardinalis, although it is not 

 strictly typical. 



11. Dendropicus gabonensis. (Plate XII. fig. 1.) 



Dendrobates gabonenis, J. & E. Verreaux, Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool. 1851, p. 513; Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 198. 



Dendrodromus nigriguttatus, Vcrr. MSS. (female). 



Dendropicus gabonensis, Bonap. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 

 (1854) ; Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinae, p. 429. no. 1012 d 

 (1854); Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. p. 178 (1857); Cass. Proc. 

 Acad. Philad. 1859, p. 141 ; Heine, J. f. O. 1860, p. 191 ; 

 Hartl. op. cit. 1861, p. 263. 



Pardipicus nigriguttatus, Bonap. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. 

 p. 9 (1854). 



Scolecotheres nigriguttatus, Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, 

 p. 429. no. 1012 c (1854). 



Dendroinus [Pardipicus) nigriguttatus, Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. 

 p. 182 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 264. 



Dendropicus nigriguttatus, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1859, 

 p. 141. 



Chrysopicus gabonensis, Malh, Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 149, 

 pL xci. figs. 1 & 2 (1862). 



Ipopatis gabonensis, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 129 

 (1863). 



Picus gabonensis, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 63 

 (1866). 



