474 BULLETIN 15 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Family PICIDAE 



CAMPETHERA TAENIOLAEMA HAUSBURGI Sharpe 



Campoihera Jiaushurgi Shakpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI., vol. 10, 1900, p. 36: Mt. 

 Keuia. 



Specimens collected: 



Male, Escarpment, Kenya Colony, September 6, 1912. 



Although this race is not listed by Sclater ®^ it is nevertheless a 

 valid form. Van Someren ®* has reviewed the races of this wood- 

 pecker, and the limited material available for study in the present 

 connection supports his conclusions. The races are as follows: 



1. O. t. taeniolaema. — Uganda, and Kenya Colony from Mount 

 Elgon and Kakamegoes east to the western ridge of the Rift Valley 

 (Mau, Sotik, Elgeyu, etc.). Characters: Underparts whitish barred 

 with green, faintly washed with greenish; upper parts dull green. 



2. G. t. haushurgi. — Kenya Colony, in and east of the Rift Valley 

 to as far as Mount Kenia, Fort Hall, and Nairobi. Nakuru birds 

 are typical haushurgi, but according to Van Someren the two races 

 intergrade on the eastern slope of the western escarpment of the 

 Rift Valley at Molo. Characters : Underparts similar to taeniolaema 

 but with a yellowish wash; the barring on the cheeks and throat 

 finer, and the upper parts brighter green, more yellowish-green, than 

 the typical race. 



Granvik ^^ collected an adult female at Ngong, near Nairobi, which, 

 together with several birds from Mount Elgon, he referred to C. 

 taeniolaema. He writes that, " * * * if 6^. t. haushurgi Sharpe 

 is a good species (which seems very doubtful to me) and not an 

 immature form I could almost place my specimen from Ngong under 

 it, as the banding on the flanks and underparts are distinctly nar- 

 rower and paler than in those from Elgon * * *." In other 

 words, he finds that the characters of haushurgi hold, but for some 

 unknown reason still believes them to be those of immaturity al- 

 though his bird is an adult. 



3. C. t. harakae. — The country northwest of Lake Tanganyika, the 

 Kivu district, Ruanda, and extreme western Uganda (Mpanga for- 

 est in Tore). The characters are said to be as follows:^'' Not as 

 yellowish-green above as in haushurgi, but the throat and breast 

 more decidedly barred with dark blackish green, and darker green 

 on the abdomen. I have seen no material of harakae, but both 

 Sclater and Van Someren agi-ee in recognizing its validity. 



8» Syst. Avium Ethiop., 1924, p. 294. 



»«Nov. Zool., vol. 29, 1922, pp. 65-66. 



85Journ. f. Ornitb., 1923, Sonderheft, p. 93. 



«« See Van Someren, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI., vol. 40, p. 90, 1920. 



