6. CAMPOTHEEA. 99 



Campetliera chr\'Siu'a, var. lineata, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philud. 1863, 

 p. 327 ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 81 (1868). 



Picus cbrjsurus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 64 (1866). 



Campetliera abingtoni, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr, p. 182 (1875) ; 

 id. in Oates's Matabele Land, App. p. -306 (1881). 



Campothera abiugoni, Hargitt, Lbis, 1883, p. 471. 



Campotbera cbrysura, Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. Zeitschr. Syst. yes. Biol. 

 Thiere, 1887, p. 307. 



Campotbera abingtoni, Ayres, Ibis, 1887, p. 53. 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts olivo spotted with 

 yellowish white, sometimes transversely varied with the same ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts olive barred with pale yellow; quills 

 blackish brown, the outer webs of the secondaries and of the pri- 

 maries at the base olive, and the webs spotted with yellowish, the 

 inner webs spotted with pure white, the inner secondaries barred 

 with white at the tip ; shafts clear brown ; tail blackish brown 

 barred with buffy brown, the central feathers washed with olive ; 

 shafts yellow; nasal plumes black; forehead, crown, occiput, nape, 

 and malar stripe crimson : sides of the face and neck white, the 

 former striped and varied with black, especially above and behind 

 the eye, the latter spotted with black ; chin and throat white with 

 longitudinal black spots ; under surface of the body yellowish white, 

 the chest and breast broadly striped with black, the stripes con- 

 tracted in the middle, the abdomen witli longitudinal but more 

 spot-like markings, and the flanks and thighs transversely spotted 

 with black ; under tail-coverts yellowish white, with heart-shaped 

 or transverse black spots ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries yellow- 

 ish white spotted with black ; underside of quill-shafts and of tail- 

 shafts golden yellow. Total length 7'S inches, culmen 1-05, wing 

 4'4, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-73 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-65, 

 outer posterior 0-65, inner anterior 0-44, inner posterior 0*27. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the forehead 

 and crown black spotted with yellowish white, the occiput alone 

 being scarlet ; the malar region white striped with black : " bill 

 horn-colour, paler on the lower mandible ; iris brown ; tarsus 

 yellowish olive " {G. E. Shelley). Total length 7"S inches, culmen 

 1-05, wing 4-3, tail 2-35, tarsus 0"8. 



Young female. Is more dusky above than the adult and has the 

 spots whiter ; the top of the head brownish dusky, the forehead and 

 outer edge of the crown being minutely speckled with white, the 

 nuchal feathers orange-scarlet. 



Hah. Natal, Zulu Land, and Swazi Land. 



South Africa. Purchased. 



South Africa. Purchased. 



Natal. T. Aj-res [C.]. 



Pinetown, Natal, May {T. SbeUey Coll. 



L. Ayres). 



Pinetown, Jan. 6 {Ayres). H. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



Dm'ban (Gordye). Shellev Coll. 



Durban, April (G. E. S.). SheUey CoU. 



Newcastle (Reid). Sheiley Coll. 



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