52 Aves 
III. AYES. 
Sub-order Pici. 
Picidce of Africa ; see Reichenow, Yog. Afrikas ii, pp. 161-201. 
Gecinus viridis, nesting habits ; Lewis, Zoologist 1902, pp. 313-315. 
Chloronerpes chrysogaster , n. sp., Central Peru ; Berlepsch & Stolzmaxx, 
P. Zool. Soc. London 1902, vol. ii, p. 32 : C. yucatanensis alleni , n. subsp., 
S. Marta, Colombia; Baxgs, P. New England Zool. Club iii, p. 83. 
Dendromus pcdlidus, n. sp., Larnu, E. Africa ; Sharpe, Ibis 1902, p. 638 : 
D. hargitti , n. sp., Niam Niam ; id. t. c. p. 638 : D. niger , n. sp., 
Kaffa, Equat. Africa ; Neumann, Ornith. Monber. x, p. 9 : D. per- 
mistus kaffensis , n. subsp., Kaffa ; id. t. c. p. 9 : D. chrysurus sua- 
helicus , n. subsp., German East Africa, Reichexow, Yog. Afrikas ii, 
p. 175. 
Asyndesmus torquatus, unusual number at Tucson, Arizona ; Browx, Auk 
xix, pp. 80-83. 
Sphyropicus ruber notkensis (Suckow) is the proper name for the northern 
form of S. ruber ; Richmond, P. Soc. Washington xv, p. 89. 
Picus major , notes on ; Gurney, Zoologist 1902, pp. 94-96. 
Dendrocopus major harterti , n. subsp., Sardinia ; Arrigoni degli Oddi, 
Avicula vi, p. 193: D. cissa, in Hungary; Madarasz, Magyar. 
Madarai, p. 193 [1900]. 
Dryobates pubescens turati (Malherbe), notes on; Fisher, Condor iv, 
pp. 68-70. 
Picoides tndactylus and its allies, notes on ; W. Rothschild, Nov. Zool. 
ix, pp. 162 & 163 : P. americanus , at Toronto ; Fleming, Auk xix, 
p. 79. 
Xenopicus gravirostris , n. sp., San Bernardino Mts., California; Grinnell, 
Condor iv, pp. 89 & 90. 
Dendrobates malherbei pectoralis , n. subsp., Maraynioc (13,000 ft.), Central 
Peru ; Berlepsch & Stolzmann, P. Zool. Soc. London 1902, vol. ii, 
p. 33. 
Dendropicus hemprichi albicans , n. subsp., Djuba River, N.E. Africa; 
Erlanger, J. Ornith. 1902, p. 258. 
Veniliornis orenocensis , n. sp., Orinoco River; Berlepsch & Hartert, 
Nov. Zool. ix, p. 93. 
Mesopicus goertan abessinicus and M. g. centralis = M. poeocephalus, Swains.; 
Grant, Ibis 1902, p. 425 : M. goertan and its allies, notes on; Sharpe, 
Ibis 1902, pp. 641 & 642 : M. ruwenzori , n. sp., Ruwenzori Range ; 
Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. xiii, p. 8. 
Pyrrhopicus pyrrhotus , the course of the hyoid cornua ; Osmaston, J. 
Bombay Soc. xiv, pp. 587 & 588. 
Micropternus brachyurus and its subspecies; Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix, 
p. 197. 
Thriponax parvus , n. sp., Simalun Is., Sumatra ; Richmond, P. Soc. 
Washington xv, p. 189. 
Ceophlceus pileatus , in Minnesota ; Cox, Auk xix, pp. 288 & 289, pi. x. 
?Picus martins , in Herefordshire; Townsend, Zoologist 1902, pp. 25 & 26. 
Picumnus sagittatus sharpei , n. subsp., Sao Paulo ; Ihering, Rev. Mus. 
Paulista v, pp. 279 & 280: P. stellce , n. sp., Orinoco River ; Berlepsch 
& Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix, p. 96 : P. olivaceus , P. Jlavotinctus and 
P. granadensis, three distinct races ; Hartert, t. c. p. 607. 
Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family Pteroptochida:. 
Scytalopus albifrons , figured; Philippi, An. Mus. Chile xv, pi. xx, fig. 4. 
Pteroptochus castaneus , figured; id. t. c. pi. xvi. 
