1. GEOCOLArTKS. Q 



Subfamily I. PICINJ]]. 

 1. GEOCOLAPTES. 



GeocoU^teaSwaim. Faun. Bor.-Am., Bird., p. 315 (1831) G oUvaceus 

 Agripicus, Malh. Intr. Monogr. Field, p. liii (180l) .... G.' olivaoeus.' 

 Range. Cape Colony and Natal. 



1. Geocolaptes olivaceus. 



Crimson-breasted Woodpecker, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p 599 n78S^ 



''r;';S7s;^(?8'^if^^- ""''■ '■ p- '''^''^^' ejij^'!3;. 



Picusarator, Cumer , Ehjne Anim. i. p. 423, e.v Lemill. (1817). 



p I (186? ■' ' 'P- ^'^ ^^^^^^' '^'""^^^^'- ^"'^•'^- ^^'-^-i 



Picus terrestris, Burch. Trav. in South Afr. i. p ''54 (1804^ 

 Colaptes olivaceus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv." p. 171 (1826) -Vm,/ Gp„ 



^,11. p. 446 (1846); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 239 (18bT) \v« ' 



Geocolaptes olivaceus. Gnm T.i<,i f4o-., t> iv^m ._ r- ^ 



' ,, '■ !• '" V^"'-^y? J^U,CHLei , ±r,lS, lf</4, P 368- Shm-no a,l 



f8T'^\S '^•^■^'■••P- i.f (i^^-^'i ^"'^-. ^i^Kt'^^SSt 



J So!'' ' ■"''' ^^''' ^^*^' p- ^^-^ ' ^y^""''"^^' i- -'^1887; 



Geopicus arator, Malh. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-1849 p 359 • id 

 PicidcB, n. p. 274, pi. cxi. fijrs. 1, 2 (1862). ' ^' ' 



Geocolaptes arator i?,„a^,. Comp. Av. i. p. 113(1850); Beichenh 

 Handb.Scam. ncmce, p. 429, pi. dclxxvii. flgs. 4477-4479 IV 

 Co7isp. Volucr. Zyyod. p. 9 (1854). ° ' ' *4/ J, ±>p. 



Adnlt male Above, including scapulars, wing-coverts, and upper 

 tail-coverts oln.aceous brown, the rump washed with crimson and 

 together with the upper tail-coverts, narrowly barred ^^t^buffy 

 white, the remainder minutely spotted with'diUl white; q3 

 b own, spotted with white upon both webs, the secondarie eS- 

 nally margined with olive; shafts yellowish brown- tail brown 

 barred with pale buff, the central feathers tipped with orange-rid 1 



ot the head, occiput, and nape, also the face, slaty grey tino-ed with 



sl^'of'tho'^'r ?■' *'f T''' ''^'''^ ^^pp'^^ -^^^ dull criirot; 



sides of the neck olive-dusky, spotted with fulvescent white- chin 

 throat, and fore neck pale buff, the chest, breast, and abdomen lo 

 pale buff more or ess washed with crimson ; the sides of the body 

 Hanks, thighs, and under tail-coNcrts olive-dusky, barred with 

 creamy or Juff^^ white ; under wing-coverts and 'axiUaries d'sky 

 ohve, barred with dull white: "bill black; tarsus black- iris 



wing 5 3, tail 3-7, tarsus 1 ; toes (without claws) -outer anterioi- 

 78, outer posterior 0-7S, inner anterior 0-55, inner posterior 0-4. 



