10 



Adult female. Has no red on tlie malar region, this being entirely 

 slat}- gre}'. Total length 9"5 inches, culmeu l-o, wing 5-3, tail 3-5, 

 tarsus 1. 



Young. Resemble the adult of their respective sexes, but have the 

 upper parts less olive and the crimson on the rump not so vivid ; the 

 under surface of the bodj' is also very much less crimson, being of a 

 buff colour, with ouly a blush of crimson, mottled and transversely 

 varied with olive-dusky and bufiy whitish ; the under tail-coverts 

 with sagittate spots (not bars) of olive-dusky. The male has the 

 feathers of the malar region tipped with crimson, as in the older 

 birds of the same sex. 



Hah. Cape Colony and Natal ; common. 



a. S <id. : h. $ 

 imm. sk. 



c. 2 ad. sk. 



d. <S ad. St. 

 e,f. (S ad. sk. 

 g. S ad. sk. 

 h. $ ad. sk. 



i. (5 ad. sk. 

 k. Ad. sk. 



I. (S ad. sk. 

 m, w. cf 2 juv. sk. 

 o, (S imm. sk. 

 2>. 2 ad. sk. 



q-s. (S ad. sk. 



S. Africa. 



Cape of Good Hope. 



Cape. 



Cape. 



Cape (Butler). 



Cape {E. A. Butler). 



Cape, April 24, 1866. 



Cape Town, April 24, 18G6 



(C. J. Andersson). 

 Colesberg {T. C. Atmore). 

 Natal {Ay res). 

 Natal, May (T. E. Bucklei/). 

 Pietermaritzberg, May (T. E. 



Buckley). 

 Newcastle, May, Oct. (E. A. 



Butler). 



J. Rocke, Esq. [P.]. 



Eiocour Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Shellev Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



2. COLAPTES. 



Type. 



Colaptes, Swains. Zool. Journ. 1827, p. 35.3 C. auratus. 



Cucupicus, Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. IKi (1828) C. auratus. 



Soroplex, Glof/. Hand. Natnrg. p. 198 (1842) C. campestris. 



Geopicos, Malh. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, p. 357 . . C. campestris. 

 Malherbipicus, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. no. 226 (1854) C. campestris. 

 Pituipicus, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. no. 236 (1854) . . C. chilensis. 

 Theiopicus, Malh. Introd. Monogr. Picid. p. liii (1861) . C. campestris. 



Rtinge. Throughout North America to Alaska ; Central and South 

 America to Chili and Patagonia ; also in the West-Indian Islands, 

 Cuba, and the Grand Cayman. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Underside of wings and of tail at the base 

 yellow. 

 «'. Top of the head grey (the feathers tipped 

 with red in young); with scarlet nuchal 

 band ; face, throat, and fore neck vinaceoua 

 buff. 

 a". Rump uniform white; lores and super- 

 ciliary stripe strongly rufous. 



«'". With black malar stripe auratus S ad., p. 13. 



//". 'With no malar stripe auratus 2 ad., p. 14. 



