6. CAMPOTHERA. 



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Dendromus bennettii, JBp. Consp. Voliwr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854). 



Dendromus guttatus, Bi). Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854). 



? Picus abingtoni, Ch-ill, Zool. Anteckn. 1859, p. 44. 



Chrysopicus variolosus, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 165, pi. xcv. 



figs. 1, 2 (1862). 

 IpagTus bennetti, Cab. df Heme, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 123 (1863). 

 Picas bennetti, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 63, no. 186 (1866). 

 C'ampethera bennetti, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 17 (1871) ; Layard, 



Ibis, 1871, p. 227 ; Shmpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 181 (1875) ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 299 ; S/unpe, in Oafes's Matabele Land, App. 



p. 306 (1881) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1886, p. 291. 

 Ipagrus variolosus, Gurney, in Anderss, B. Damara Land, p. 222 



(1872). 

 Campothera bennetti, Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 456 ; Ayres, op. cit. 



1887, p. 53. 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts deep olive, barred 

 with pale yellow ; rump and upper tail-coverts pale yellow, nar- 

 rowly barred with deep olive ; quills nearly black, the outer webs 

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

 webs of the quills spotted with yellowish white, the inner webs 

 having purer white spots, the innermost feathers barred right 

 across ; shafts golden yellow ; tail rufous-brown, barred and tipped 

 with black ; shafts yellow ; forehead, crown, and occiput crimson ; 

 nape and hind neck brownish biack; nasal plumes bufiy white; 

 lores and sides of the face and neck buffy white, the side of the neck 

 covered with large black spots ; malar stripe crimson ; chin and 

 throat uniform buffy white ; entire underparts and under tail- 

 coverts yellowish or buffy white, and (except on the abdomen) 

 entirely spotted with black ; under wing-coverts yellowish or buffy 

 white spotted with black : " bill black ; iris red ; tarsus greyish " 

 {T. E. BucMey). Total length 8'5 inches, culmen 1"15, wing 4"8, 

 tail 2-6, tarsus 0-82 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0"65, 

 outer posterior O'o3, inner anterior 0-5, inner posterior 0"27. 



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

 and crown black spotted with white ; the lores, orbital region, car- 

 coverts, chin, and throat chestnut-brown ; the malar region and the 

 remaining portion of the face white, the feathers having partially- 

 exposed black bases. In other respects it resembles the male. 

 Total length 8'3 inches, culmen I'Oo, wing 4'5, tail 2'35, tarsus 0'85. 



Hah. Natal and the Transvaal, through the Makalaka Country 

 to the Zambesi and the Lake Ngami district. 



a,b. cJ 2 ad. sk. 

 c,d.S^ ad. sk. 

 e,f. S2 ad. sk. 



g. (S imm. sk. 



h. S ad. sk. 

 i. 5 ad. sk. 



Cape Colony. 

 Transvaal {Ayres). 

 SwaziLand, Jidy (r. E. 



Buckley). 

 Lake Ngami district 



( C. J. Andersson). 

 Makalaka {Dr. Bradshaiv). 

 Makalaka Kraal, Sept. 7, 



1874 {F. Oates). 



S. African Museum. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley CoU. 



Sharpe CoU. 



Shelley Coll. 



C. G. & W. E. Oates 



[P.]. 



