106 nciD^, 



d. 6 «<i- sk. Fantee. S. T. Aiibin [C.]- 



e. (5 ad. ; /. $ Aburi {T. E. Buckley). Shelley Coll. 

 imm. sk. 



(J. 5 ad. sk. Ndoruma, Niam Niam Country, F. Bohndorff [C. J. 



Nov. 1880. 

 //. $ ad. sk. Tingasi. Emin Taslia [P.]. 



11. Campothera permista. 



Dendromiis brachyrliynchus (non Swains.), Ilartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 182 (1857) ; id. J.f. O. 1861, p. 264. 

 Chrysopicus bracbyi-liynclius, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 152, pi. xci. figs. 6, 



7 (1862). 

 Campothera brachyrhyncha, Cah. i^ Heine, Mus. Ilcin. iv. p. 132 



(1863). ■ 

 Pious brachyrhynchus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Fian. p. 62 (1866). 

 Campethera'brachyrhyueha, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 18C8, p. 78 ; 



id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 192, uo. 8689 (1870). 

 Picus (Campothera) permistus, Meichenoiv, J.f. 0. 1876, p. 97. 

 Canipethera maculosa {non Valenc), Sharpe ^ Buuvier, Bull. Soc. 



Zool. France, 1876, p. 51. 

 Campothera permista, Sharpe ^ Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 



1876, p. 312; Bocaye, Orn. Any., App. p. 536 (1881). 

 Campothera permista, Haryitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 478 ; Sluayc, Journ. 



Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 431 (1884). 



Adult male. Ecsembles C. maculosa, but is very much smaller 

 and has always the under wing-coverts and axillarics transversely 

 spotted with black ; the tail is browner and the shafts arc brown, 

 only the tips being black ; the lateral feathers occasionally have 

 bar-like spots of brownish white upon the base of the inner 

 webs. Total length 6 inches, culmcn 0-G7, wing 3-7, tail 2-4, 

 tarsus 0-65 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-6, outer poste- 

 rior 0-5, inner anterior 0-45, inner posterior 0-2. 



AdnU female. Has the forehead and crown black spotted with 

 yellowish white, the occiput (only) being scarlet. Otherwise like the 

 adult male. Total length 6 inches, culmeu 0-6, wing 3-55, tail 2-15, 

 tarsus 0'65, 



Immature (sex ?). The feathers of the forehead and crown are 

 yellow with sooty-black bases, the nuchal crest being bright golden 

 yellow inclining to orange ; under wing-coverts bufty white spotted 

 with black : tail dusky olive, all the feathers having faint blackish 

 bars. This is an interesting stage, and apparently rare in col- 

 lections. 



Hah. Gaboon and the Congo Region. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Gaboon {Du Chaillu). Sharpe Coll. 



h. 5 ad. ; c. Gaboon ( Walker). Sharpe Coll. 



imm. sk. 



d,e. S ad. sk. Gaboon. H. T. Ansell, Esq. [P.]. 



/. 2 ad. sk. Gaboon. A. Bouvier, P]sq. \V7\. 



y. cf ad. sk. Congo {Petit). Shelley Coll. 



