230 Mr. E. Hargitt on the 



Verreauxia africana, Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. 1857^ p. 176. 

 no. 523 ; id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 263. 



Picumnus verreauxii, Malh. Monogr. Pic. ii. p. 284, pi. 118. 

 fig. 1. 



Nannopij)0 africana, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 9 

 (1863). 



Picumnus africanus, Sunclev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 106 

 (1866). 



General colour above, including tlie rump and upper tail- 

 coverts, uniform olive, slightly tinged with golden olive; 

 the head a little darker, the bases of the feathers leaden grey ; 

 wing-coverts similar to the back ; quills blackish, the outer 

 webs of the primaries edged narrowly, and those of the 

 secondaries more broadly, with bright olive; the margins of 

 the inner webs light grey, white near the base ; shafts black ; 

 tail blackish, edged Avith olive, shafts black ; forehead orange- 

 chestnut, ochreous yellow near the bill ; a narrow super- 

 ciliary stripe of white ; cheeks and sides of the face and neck 

 a mixture of bluish grey and light chestnut ; chin, throat, 

 and entire under surface of the body, including flanks and 

 thighs, a mixture of bluish grey (tinged with olive) and light 

 chestnut, the tips of the feathers being of the latter colour ; 

 the bases are leaden grey ; under tail-coverts bluish grey, 

 tipped with light chestnut ; under surface of the tail dusky ; 

 under wing-coverts white ; axillaries white ; under surface of 

 the wing dusky, the margins of the inner webs greyish white ; 

 shafts white near the base, dusky towards the tip. 



Total length 2*6 inches, culmen '4, wing 1*9, tail '55, 

 tarsus '42 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior '3, outer 

 posterior "3, inner anterior '22, inner posterior 1*1 7. 



The only specimen of this bird which I have seen, as yet, 

 is in the British Museum, and appears to me to be not quite 

 adult. It is not, however, very dissimilar to the bird figured 

 by Malherbe ; and Dr. Hartlaub gives full descriptions of both 

 sexes from examples in the Bremen Museum, though these 

 again would seem to be scarcely mature. Should they prove 

 to be so, the resemblance of adult Verreauxia to the imma- 

 ture plumage of the Eastern Sasia is remarkable. According 



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