from Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia. 305 
a . $ [undoubtedly $ ad.]. Konduro, Abyssinia, 25 March, 
1899. (No. 449.) [ Type of the species.] 
[Adult male.] Allied to the male of D. zanzibari Malh., 
but easily distinguished by the following characters :—The 
forehead and fore-part of the crown are darker brown ; the 
cross-bars on the interscapular region and back indistinct and 
of a dull greenish-white colour; the wing-coverts brownish 
black, the lesser and median with a white spot at the 
extremity; the white feathers of the sides of the head and 
ear-coverts striped with black on either side, those of the 
throat with narrow black shaft-stripes; the chest and breast 
more strongly marked and the upper surface of the shafts of 
the primary and secondary quills, except the extreme basal 
portion, brown. Iris brown; bill dark slate; legs slate. 
Total length about 5*5 inches, culrnen 0*7, wing 3*2, tail 
T6, tarsus 0*6. 
171. Dendropicus abyssinicus. 
Dendropicus abyssinicus (Stanl.) ; Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xviii. p. 303 (1890). 
a. $ . Burka, Abyssinia, 6 January, 1899. (No. 128.) 
Iris brown ; bill and legs dark brown. 
172. Dendropicus hemprlchi. 
Dendropicus hemprichi (Ehr.) ; Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xviii. p. 299 (1890) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 491 ; 
Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 74. 
Dendromus hemprichi Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 414 
(N. Somaliland). 
a. Ketchen Waha, Abyssinia, 16 January, 1899. 
(No. 203.) 
b. $ . Kassim river, Abyssinia, 18 January, 1899. 
(No. 226.) 
a. Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 
b. Iris brown; bill dark; legs slate-colour. 
173. Thripias schoensis. 
Thripias schoensis (Riipp.); Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xviii. p. 308 (1890) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 491. 
a. $. Hargeisa, Somaliland, 13 December, 1898. (No. 9.) 
Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 
