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13. Campothera nivosa. 



Deudromus nivosus, Sivcn?is. B. IV. Afr. ii. p. 1C2 (1837) ; Hartl. 



Oni. IV. Afr. p. 183 (1857) ; Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1859, 



p. 14J ; Heine, J. f. O. 18G0, p. 192 ; Hartl. op. cit. 186], p. 264 ; 



Sliarpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 194 ; UssJier, op. cit. 1874, p. 55. 

 Campethera nivosa, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846) ; id. List Picid. 



Brit. Mus. p. 80 (1868) ; id. Hand-/. B. ii. p. 192, no. 2154 (1870) ; 



S/iarpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 17 (1871) ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 607. 

 Chloropiciis uivosus, 3Ialk. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1848-49, p. 352. 

 Dendvobatea iiivosus, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 126 (1850) ; Hartl. 



J.f O. 1864, p. 198. 

 Scolecotheres nivosus, Reichenh. Scans. Picince, p. 428, no. 1012 



(1854). 

 Pardipicus nivosus, Bp. Consp. Valuer, Zygod. p. 9 (1854). 

 Clirysopicus nivosus, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 151, pi. xcii. ligs. 1, 2 



(1862). 

 Stictocraugus pardinus. Cab. Sr Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 130 (1863). 

 Picus pardinus, Temm. in Mus. Buqd. ; Sundev. Co7JS2). Av. Picin. 



p. 58 (1866). 

 Dendrobates congicus *, Bocacje, Jam. Acad. Sc. Lish. no. xxix. p. 50 ; 



id. Orn. Aug., App. p. 535 (1877). 

 Campothera nivosa, Harqitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 482 ; Biittik. Leyde?i 



Notes, 1885, p. 221, 1886, p. 264. 



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

 coverts, outer webs of secondaries and of primaries at the base uni- 

 foi'm golden olive ; the remaining portion of the quills brownish 

 black, the primaries spotted with white on the outer webs : the 

 inner webs of the quills margined with white on more or less of the 

 basal portion, the white scalloping the black web ; shafts black ; 

 tail brownish black, the lateral feathers spotted with buflfy white on 

 the outer webs ; shafts black ; nasal plumes brownish black ; fore- 

 head, crown, and occiput olive-brown, the nape scarlet ; face (except 

 above the ear-coverts), chin, and throat fulvescent white, the malar 

 region, chin, and throat striped with olive-black ; above the ear- 

 coverts, the side of the neck and fore neck, and the whole of the 

 underparts and under tail-coverts brownish olive, covered with 

 rounded spots of buffy or fulvescent white ; under wing-coverts uni- 

 form huffy white. Total length 6 inches, culmeu 0-8, wing 3"3, 

 tail 1-7, tarsus 0*75 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-62, 

 outer posterior 0'55, inner anterior 0-4, inner posterior 0-25. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the red 

 nuchal band. Total length 6'5 inches, culmen 0*8, wing 3*55, 

 •tail 1*8, tarsus 0-7. 



Hub. Casamanze, through Liberia and the Gold Coast to the 

 Cameroons ; Gaboon, and the West Congo region. 



* I have examined the tvpe, and found it to be an immature example of the 

 present species. 



