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Picus (Chloropicos) rufoviridis, Malh. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 401. 

 Chloronei-pes rufoviridis, Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 443 (1845) ; Reichenh. 



Scans. Picin<e, p. 335 (1854). 

 Dendrobates olivaceus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1846). 

 Campethera maculosa, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 21 (1849); id. List 



Pickl. Brit. Mm. p. 78 (18G8) ; id. Hand-L B. ii. p. 192, no. 8688 



(1870). 

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

 Picus cbloronotus, Cuv. in Mus. Paris; Packer. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 



1852, p. 479. 

 Uendromus rufoviridis, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 (1854). 

 Dendropicus olivaceus, Havtl. Orw. W.-Afr. p. 177 (1857). 

 Cbrj'sopicus maculosus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 156, pi. xcii. fig. 3 



(1862). 

 Campotbera maculosa, Cab, ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 133 (1863) ; 



Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 475; Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. 1885, 



p. 220 ; id. op. eit. 1886, p. 264. 

 Campetbera vestita, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1863, p. 197 ; id. Journ, 



Acad. Philad. 18G3, p. 458, pi. Ii. fig. 2. 

 Picus (Campotbera) maculosus, Reichenoiv, J.f. O. 1876, p. 98. 



Adult male. Back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, scapulars, ■wing- 

 coverts, outer vrebs of secondaries and of primaries at the base 

 golden-olive, the upper parts and scapulars having a few yellow 

 shaft-stripes and the upper back spotted with buff, the lesser and 

 the median coverts having longitudinal spots of buff ; the remaining 

 portion of the quills blackish brown, the inner webs more or less 

 spotted or margined with white : shafts dark brown ; tail black, the 

 central feathers margined with olive at the base ; shafts black ; 

 nasal plumes black ; forehead, crown, occiput, and nape crimson ; 

 hind neck dusky olive spotted with buff; face, chin, and throat pale 

 buff spotted with black : side of the neck, fore neck, and entire under 

 surface of the body yellow barred with black ; under tail-coverts 

 margined with yellow and having a V-shaped black marking with 

 a white centre ; under wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish buff, 

 the former sometimes unspotted, the latter having their tips slightly 

 dusky. Total length 6*7 inches, culmen 0-77, -wing 3-9, tail 2-4, 

 tarsus 0"67; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-bb, outer 

 posterior 0"5, inner anterior 0'42, inner posterior 0"2. 



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

 and crown black, spotted -with -white or yellowish white. Total 

 length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 4'1, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-65. 



Young. Have the top of the head black, with rounded spots of 

 buff ; the sides of the face and neck, chin, and throat buff, spotted 

 with black ; under wing-coverts uniform. Otherwise like the adult. 



Herr Biittikofer (' JTotes from the Leyden ^Museum,' vii. p. 220, 

 1885) mentions having obtained in Western Liberia a female speci- 

 men agreeing in every respect with Cassin's description of C. vestita. 

 This I take to be a bird in first plumage. 



Hah. Senegal to the Gold Coast, and extending into the Niam 

 Niam Country and the Tingasi District. 



a, h. Juv. sk. West Africa. Purchased. 



c. (S ad. sk. Gold Coast, Jan. {Kirby). Shelley CoU. 



