452 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 82 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 193. 

 no. 8698 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 17 (1871) ; Antin. 

 & Salvad. Viagg. Bogos, p. 45 (1873). 



Campetliera cBthiopica,Graj,Geu.B. sp.7 (1846) ; Reichenb. 

 Handb. Scans. Picinje, p. 422, pi. dclxxii. figs. 4419-50 (1854). 



Dendrobates cethiopicus, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 123 

 (1850) ; Sclat. Rep. Coll. Somali Country, I860, p. 10. 



Chrysopicus nubicus, Malli. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 159, 

 pi. xciii. figs. 2, 3, 5 (1862). 



Ipagrus nubicus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 125 

 (1863). 



Dendrobates nubicus, Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. 1864, p. 80; 

 Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Torino, 1870, p. 743. 



Adult male. Upper back olive-black, barred with white ; 

 scapularies and lower back yellowish olive, with indistinct 

 cross-markings of yellowish and diamond-shaped spots of 

 white ; wing-coverts olive, the lesser series with minute 

 whitish shaft-spots, the median and greater having a heart- 

 shaped or V-shaped whitish spot near the tip ; quills dusky, 

 edged externally with olive, notched and barred with whitish ; 

 the inner webs notched and spotted with pure white ; shafts 

 pale golden yellow ; rump olive-dusky, barred with whitish ; 

 upper tail-coverts similar to the rump but more washed with 

 olive-yellow; tail brownish olive barred with golden buff, 

 golden towards the tip ; shafts yellow ; forehead, crown, and 

 occipital crest crimson, bases of the feathers dark leaden 

 grey ; lores and superciliary stripe buffy white ; ear-coverts 

 dusky, streaked with black ; sides of the face and neck white, 

 spotted with black ; moustachial stripe crimson ; chin and 

 throat buffy white ; underparts pale yellow, spotted with 

 black, the flanks and thighs being whiter and barred with 

 black ; under tail-coverts yellowish white, spotted with 

 black ; under wing-coverts buffy white, with blackish spots ; 

 " bill dusky, paler beneath ; iris pink ; legs greenish horny " 

 {W. T. Blanford). Total length 8-0 inches, culmen 1-2, 

 wing 4-3, tail 2"4, tarsus 0*83; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0-7, outer posterior 0*65, inner anterior 0'5, inner 

 posterior 0*3. 



