430 MK. E. B. SHAltPE ON BIRDS 



primaries; the secondaries grass-green externally, witli emerald- 

 green tips and margins ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-covet'ts 

 bright emerald-green ; tail-feathers olive-brown, margined and 

 tipped with emerald-green ; crown of head and nape brown, 

 washed with yellowish olive, with here and there a concealed spot 

 of bright yellow ; forehead dusky brown, blackish on the lores ; 

 ear-coverts and cheeks light ashy brown, washed with yellowish 

 olive ; throat dull yellowish olive with blackish shaft-lines, the 

 fore neck and chest gradually dusky brown, with ashy edges to 

 some of the feathers ; remainder of under surface of body bright 

 emerald-green, with yellow bases to the feathers ; thighs emerald- 

 green externally, dull ashy internally ; axillaries emerald-green 

 like the breast; under wing-coverts darker grass-green, the 

 median series washed with emerald-green ; greater series dull 

 ashy, slightly washed with green ; quills ashy below, lighter to- 

 wards the inner web. Total length 9'5 inches, culmen (without 

 cere) 1'05, wing 6'55, tail 3-3, tarsus 0'55. 



40. PioNiAS Meteei (Biipp.); Heugl. t. c. p. 743; Hartl. op. 

 cit. vii. p. 114. 



A number of specimens from Kutschugali. 



Cohors II. Pi CI. 



41. Mesopicus schoensis {Bupp.). — Picus schoanus, Heugl. 

 op. cit. ii. p. 809. — Picus schoensis, Hartl. op. cit. viii. p. 207. 



A fine adult pair from Dem Suleiman, November. 



It turns out that the bird supposed by Mr. Hargitt to be 

 M. schoensis from Zanzibar, in Capt. Shelley's collection, is not 

 really that species, but an intermediate form, for which I propose 

 the name of Mesopicus decipiens. Like M. schoensis it has the 

 black ear-stripe joined to the black cheeks; but the chest is 

 barred as in M. namaquus. The true M. schoensis, as shown bv 

 Mr. Bohndorff's specimens, which agree with Eiippell's plate and 

 Von Heuglin's descriptions, has the chest black, with small white 

 spots. The female appears never to have been figured. 



42. Mesopicus xantholophus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 421. 

 Two females and a male from Semmio, August. Iris dark red. 

 This species has hitherto been supposed to exist only on the 



Congo river and in Gaboon. Its range is thus widely extended 

 to the eastward. I have submitted the specimens to Mr. Hargitt, 

 who confirms the identification. 



