of the Ethiopian Region. 4<b7 



Dendromus guttatus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 

 (1854). 



? Picus ahingtoni, Gv'iW, Zool. Anteckn. 1859^ p. 44. 



Chrysopicus variolosus, Malh. Monogr. Picicl. ii. p. 165, 

 pi. xcv. figs. 1, 2 (1862) . 



Ipagrus bennetti, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 123 

 (1863). 



Picus bemietti, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 63. no. 186 

 (1866). 



Campethera bennetti, Sliarpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 17 (1871) ; 

 Layard, Ibis, 1871, p. 227; Sharpe, ed. Layard, p. 181 

 (1875) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 299 ; Sharpe, in Oates's 

 Matabele Land, App. p. 306 (1881). 



Ipagrus variolostis, Gurncy, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 222 

 (1872). 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, yellowisli olive, 

 broadly barred with dusky olive and more narrowly with yellow 

 or yellowish white ; wing-coverts yellowish olive, spotted and 

 having a few shaft-streaks of white ; the median and greater 

 series barred with the same near the tips ; quills dusky 

 black, the outer webs partially or entirely yellowish olive and 

 more or less notched and barred with white, these markings 

 very faint upon the outer primaries, the inner webs notched 

 and spotted with white; some of the inner secondaries 

 entirely olive ; tips of the quills white, shafts golden yellow ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts yellowish white, washed with 

 golden and barred with black ; tail rich brown, some of the 

 central feathers washed with golden olive, the whole barred 

 with black ; tips of the four central feathers black, and of the 

 remainder golden ; dwarf feather dull yellowish, barred with 

 blackish olive aud having a shaft-spot and the tip Avhite ; 

 shafts bright golden yellow ; forehead, crown, and occiput 

 crimson, the bases of the feathers dark leaden grey, darker 

 on the occiput, a few of the nuchal feathers having a whitish 

 spot at the base of the crimson tip ; hind neck blackish 

 olive, barred and spotted with white ; lores, superciliary 

 stripe, entire side of the face, chin, and throat uniform bufl'y 

 white ; a broad crimson malar stripe ; side of the neck white. 



