0. CAMPOTHEEA. 97 



Campetliera piinctuligera, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846) ; Heichenh. 



Scans. Picime, p. 4^3, pi. dclxxiii. figs. 4455, 4456 (1854) ; Cass. 



Froc. Acad. Philad. 1803, p. 327; Oust. Nouv. Arch. 1879, p. 150. 

 Dendrobates punctuligeius, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 123 (1850) ; 



Hartl. J.f. 0. 1854, p. 198. 

 Dendromus punctuligerus, Bjh Consp. Valuer. Zyqod. p. 9 (1854) : 



Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 180 (1857). 

 Chiysopicus puuctiiligerus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 164, pi. xcii. figs. 4- 



6 (1862). 

 Ipagrus pimctatiis, Cab. Sj- Heine, Mas. Hein. iv. p. 124 (1863). 

 Campetliera puuctata, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Miis. p. 82 (1868) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 193, no. 8699 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 17 



(1871) ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 68. 

 Campotliera punctata, Sahin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 394 (1882) ; 



Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 463. 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts yello-svish olive, 

 with longitudinal yellow spots, and also spots of dusky olive ; rump 

 and ujjper tail-coverts olive barred with yellow, the latter washed 

 with golden ; quills dusky brown, the outer webs, except the tips 

 of the primaries, golden olive spotted with yellow, the inner webs 

 spotted with white ; shafts yellow ; tail olive-brown barred with 

 golden buff, the tips of the feathers as weU as the shafts golden 

 yellow ; forehead, crown, occiput, nape, and malar stripe crimson ; 

 nasal plumes, lores, and sides of the face and neck white tinged 

 with yellowish, the car-coverts finely striated with black and having 

 a grey appearance, the side of the neck spotted with black ; chin 

 and throat huffy white, the under surface of the body and under 

 tail-coverts yellow, the lower breast, abdomen, and vent almost 

 entirely uniform, the remainder, including the chin and throat, 

 covered with minute black spots ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries 

 buffy white or yellowish spotted with black. Total length 8 inches, 

 culmen 1-15, wing 4-5, tail 2-25, tarsus 0*9 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0'67, outer posterior 0*6, inner anterior 0-47, inner 

 posterior 0"3. 



Adult female. Has the forehead and crown black striped with 

 white. In other respects it resembles the adult male. Total length 

 8 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 4-5, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-9. 



A young bird (sex ?) in the Shelley collection has the forehead 

 and crown uniform dusky black, the occipital band crimson ; upper 

 parts less yellowish olive, and underparts whiter. 



Hab. From the Gold Coast, into Senegal on the west, and ex- 

 tending east to the River Niger. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Senegal. Tweeddale Coll. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Gambia. Tweeddale CoU. 



c. d. S ? ad. sk. Gambia. Sharpe Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Gambia. Universit}^ College. 



/. 2 ad. sk. River Gambia. Shelley CoU. 



g. 2 imra. sk. E,. Niger {Dr. Baikie). Tweeddale Coll. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Casamanze. Sharpe Coll. 



i. S ad. sk. Bissao. Sharpe Coll. 



k. S ad. sk. Fantee {H. T. Usshcr). Shai-pe CoU. 



/. Juv. sk. Accra, April (/. Smith). Shelley Coll. 



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