98 piciD^. 



5. Campothera balia. 



Picus puuctuligerus (non Jfat/L), Cab. J. f. O. 1864, p. 25i3 ; Fhisch 



^- Hartl. Voii. Ostafr. Scans, p. 511, note (1870). 

 ricus balius, Ifeuffl. Orn. N. O.-Afr. p. 810 (1871). 

 Campothera cailliaudi (pt.), Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 4-55. 

 Campotliera balia, Shaiye, Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 431 (1884). 



Adult female. Above, including scapulars and wing-coverts, olive 

 minutely spotted M'ith yeUow ; rump and upper tail-coverts olive 

 barred with yellowish ; quills dusky brown, the outer webs of the 

 secondaries and of the primaries at their base olive, the outer webs 

 of the quills spotted with brownish or dull fulvescent white, the 

 inner webs having whiter spots ; shafts brownish yellow ; tail 

 brownish black, barred with umber-brown and washed with golden 

 olive ; shafts golden yellow ; forehead and crown black spotted with 

 white, the occiput and nape crimson : nasal plumes, lores, and sides 

 of the face and neck huffy white, behind the eye a dusky black 

 stripe, and the malar region as well as the side of the neck closely 

 spotted with black ; chin and throat buffy white, sparingly and 

 minutely spotted with black ; under surface of the body (except the 

 abdomen which is nearly uniform) and under tail-coverts yellowish 

 white spotted with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries more 

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

 culmcn 0"9, wing 4-3, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-8 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0"57, outer posterior 0'53, inner anterior 0"4, inner 

 posterior 0"25. 



Adult male. I have never seen the male of this species, but, 

 according to Heugliu, it has the top of the head and the malar 

 stripe red. 



Hah. North-east Africa, extending into the Niam Niam Country. 



a. 5ad.sk. Semmio, Niam Niam Country, F. Bohndorfi'[C.]. 



Jan. 1883. 



6. Campothera abingdoni. 



Chrysoptilus abingoni, Smith, Rep, S. Afr. Exped., App. p. 53 



(1836). 

 Dendromus chrysurus, Sioains. B. W. Afr. ii. ]). 158 (1837) ; Hartl. 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 181 (1857) ; id. J.f. O. 1861, p. 264. 

 Campetliera chrysura, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846) ; Reichenb. 



Scans. Picince, ]). 424, pi. dclxxiii. iigs. 4457, 4458 (1854) ; Gurncy, 



Ibis, 1860, p. 213 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 238 (1867) ; Gray, List 



Ticid. Brit. 3fus. p. 81 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 192, no. 8694 



(1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 17 (1871) ; Dubois, Bull. Mus. 



Roy, cVHist. Nat. Belg. 1886, p. 147. 

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



J.f. 0. 1854, p. 199. 

 Chrysopicus chrysurus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 153, pi. xciv. figs. 4, 5 



(1862). 

 Dendromus smithii, Gurney {non Malh.'), Ibis, 1862, p. 37 ; id, torn, 



cit. p. 157. 

 Ipagi'us chrjsurus. Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 128 (1863). 



