448 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



2. Dendropicus africanus. 



Picus africanus, J. E. Gray^ Zool, Misc. i. p. 18 (1831) ; 

 Sundev. Consp. Av. Picinse;, p. 42 (1866, pt.). 



Dendrobates africanus, Gray, Gen. B, ii. p. 437 (1849) ; 

 Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 199 (ex Gray). 



Dendropicus (Mesopicus) africanus, Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. 

 1857, p. 180. 



Dendropicus africanus, Malli. Monogr. Picid. i. p. 205 

 (1861, ex Gray) ; Cass. Proc. Acad. Pliilad. 1863, p. 322 ; 

 Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 1868, p. 66 ; id. Pland-l. B. ii. 

 p. 190.no. 8655 (1870). 



Ipoctonus africanus. Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 117 

 (1863, pt.). 



This species was described by Dr. J. E. Gray from a 

 specimen said to have been procured by Captain Sabine at 

 Sierra Leone. As the original description is not easily 

 accessible to ornithologists I transcribe it below, iti the 

 hopes that it may lead to the identification of the species. 

 For my own part, I greatly doubt its being a West-African 

 bird at all. 



" Golden olive-brown ; top of head, streak from angle of 

 mouth, and from lower edge of lower jaw down side of neck 

 black ; chin and throat, side of head and neck white ; crest 

 and rump scarlet ; chest and beneath blackish olive, white- 

 spotted ; tail and quills black-brown ; dots on outer web 

 and spots on inner web of quills and under wing-coverts 

 white; bill cestriform, culmen three-keeled. Length 8^, 

 wing 4|, bill to gape 15, to front 13, tarsus 7| lines.^^ 



4. PoLIOPICUS. 



Polipicus, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1863, Type, 



p. 197 P. ellioti. 



1. POLIOPICUS ELLIOTI. 



Polipicus elliotii, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1863, p. 197; 

 id. Journ. Acad. Philad. 1863, p. 457, pi. Ii. fig. 1. 

 Picus ellioti, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 63 (1866). 



