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Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on Birds 
XVI.— On the Birds collected during an Expedition through 
Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia to the Blue Nile. 
By W. R. Ogilvie Grant. With Field-notes by Lord 
Lovat*. — Part II. 
[Plates IV.-VI.] 
[Continued from p. 178.] 
168. Mesopicus spodocepiialus. 
Dendrobates poicephalus Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 86, pi. 34 
(1845). 
Mesopicus spodocephalus (Bonap.) ; Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xviii. p. 370 (1890). 
The immature female is in very worn plumage and differs 
from the adult in having the back mostly brownish, tinged 
here and there with golden yellow, the breast and belly 
indistinctly barred with white, with only a trace of the red 
stripe down the middle. 
This species is new to the British Museum Collection. 
a . $ . Burka, Abyssinia, 6 January, 1899. (No. 129.) 
b. S. Tchlea, ,, 8 March,* 1899. (No. 383.) 
c. $ juv. Blue Nile, 13 May, 1899. (No. 507.) 
Iris browm ; bill and legs slate-colour. 
169. Campothera nubica. 
Campothera nubica (Gm.); Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xviii. p. 93 (1890) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 492 ; Lort 
Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 415 (N. Somaliland) ; Hawker, Ibis, 
1899, p. 74. 
a. $ . Kassim river, Abyssinia, 19 January, 1899. (No. 
234.) 
Iris brown ; bill and legs dark brown. 
170. Dendropicus simoni. 
Dendropicus simoni Grant, Bull. B. O. C. voh x. p. xxxviii 
(1900). 
* Sporceginthus margaritce Weld-Blundell & Lovat (see Ibis, 1900, 
p. 130, pi. iii. fig'. 1) is synonymous with Estrilda ochrogaster Salvad. 
Boll. Mus. Torino, xii. no. 287, p. 4 (1897). The latter description had 
been overlooked till Captain Shelley kindly called my attention to it. 
The species should stand as Spor&ginthus ochrogaster (Salvad.). 
