486 On the Woodpeckers of the Ethiopian Region. 



Besides the al)ove there are certain species wliicli may 

 almost certainly be considered typical of one or other o£ the 

 above three regions. Thus^ Dendropicus cardinalis would be 

 strictly South-African if it did not occur on the Zambesi and 

 reach to Ugogo ; and from the last-named locality the species 

 cannot be said to be absolutely typical. Again, Mesopicus 

 namaquus is another representative South-African Wood- 

 pecker; but as it reaches to Angola on the west coast, and 

 probably to Zanzibar on the east, it cannot be definitely 

 entered as a typical Woodpecker of the South- African sub- 

 region. When it comes to testing the existence of the East- 

 African subregion, which Mr. Sharpe calls the " Subregio 

 Mosambicana_,"there appears to be only one single Woodpecker 

 which can be called typical of this part of Africa. As already 

 mentioned^ Dendropicus cardinalis of South Africa ranges into 

 Ugogo, D. zanzibari occurs in Angola and on the Congo, 

 Mesopicus schoensis extends from Abyssinia to Zanzibar, 

 where it meets with M. namaquus, which comes as far from 

 South Africa. Campothera bennetti occurs on the Zambesi, 

 and is an argument in favour of the Zambesi district being 

 added to the South-African subregion. C. cailliaudi, de- 

 scribed from Zanzibar, extends to the Lake-districts, which 

 Mr. Sharpe considers to form part of his Abyssinian sub- 

 region. C. abingoni, otherwise a typical South- African 

 Woodpecker, has been found at Mombas ; and thus C. mal- 



