DENDROPICUS 135 



Genus III. DENDROPICUS. 



Type. 

 Dendropicus, Malh. Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 532 ...... D. cardinalis. 



Bill short, not so long as the head ; a well-marked nasal shelf 

 on either side of the culmen, the width of which at the base is 

 greater than the distance between its outer edge and the cutting 

 edge of the mandible ; nostrils concealed by plumes, the chin angle 

 at the base of the lower mandible not extending further forward 

 than the nasal plumes ; wings moderately pointed, the difference 

 between the primaries and secondaries exceeding the length of the 

 culmen ; tarsus about the same length as the outer posterior toe 

 with claw, which is longer than the outer anterior toe ; plumage 

 barred and spotted. 



Thirteen species of this genus have been described, all from 

 the Ethiopian region ; only one of these, the type species of the 

 genus, occurs in South Africa. , 



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 440. Dendropicus cardinalis. Cardinal Woodpecker. 



Picus cardinalis, Gnui. S//s. Nat. i., p. 438 (1788). 



Le Petit Pic a baguettes d'or, Levaill. Ots. d'Afr. vi., p. 25, pi. 253 



(1808). 

 Picus fulviscapus, Lip/if. Verz. Doubl. p. 11 (1823) ; Grill, K. Vet. Akad. 



Handl. ii, no. 10, p. 44 (1858). 



Dendropicus harilaubi, Malh. Rev. Zool. 1849, p. 532; Gurnet/ in Ander- 

 n'a IL Damaraland, p. 219 (1872); Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 368; 



Shurpe, ed. La-yard's B. S. Afr. pp. 189, 812 (1875-84) ; Gurney, Ibis, 



1877, p. 342. 

 Dendropicus cardinalis, Gurney in Andersson's B. Damaraland, p. 220 



(1872) ; Sharye, cd. Layard'8 B. S. Afr. pp. 190, 812 (1875-84) ; 



Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 200 [Rhenoster river] ; Oates, Matabeleland, p. 



306 (1881) ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 437; Symonds, Ibis,l8S7, p. 330 



[Kroonstad] ; Hargitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 295 (1890) ; Distant, Nat. 



Transvaal, p. 166 (1892) [Pretoria] ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 132 (1896) ; 



Kendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 169 [Barberton] ; Marshall, ibid. p. 242 [Salis- 

 , bury dist.] ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, p. 501 [Echowe] ; Sowerby, Ibis, 



1898, p. 572 [Ft. Chiquaqua] ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 105 



(1899) ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 427. 

 Dendrobates cardinalis, Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 368. 

 Dendropicus fulviscapus, Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 298 [Rustenburg] ; Holub 



<f- Pelzcln, Orn. Sud-Afrikns, p. 163 (1882); Butler, Feilden, and 



Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 208. 





