296 piciDiE. 



Clirysocolaptes cardinalis, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 122 (1850) ; 



Heichenb. Scans. PicincB, p. 339 (1854). 

 Dendrobates hartlaubi, Bimap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 124 (1850), pt. ; 



Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. 1880, p. 232. 

 Dendrobates fuscescens, Strickl. d,- Sdat. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 155. 

 Dendropicus fuscescens, Bonap. Cons}}. Volucr. Zi/ffod. p. 9 (1854). 

 Deiulropicus cardinalis, Bonap. Consp. Volucr. Zi/ffod. p. 9 (18o4) ; 



Gray, List Picicl. Brit. Mus. 1808, p. 04 ; id. Hand-l. B. li. p. 189, 



no. 8649 (1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 1871, p. 18; Gurnet/, in 



Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 220(1872) ; Sharpe, ed. Lai/ard'sB. S. Afr. 



1875, p. 190 ; Barratt, Ibis, 1870, p. 200; Sharpe, in Oates' Mutabele- 



Land, App. p. 300 (1881) ; Butler, Feildcii, if Bcid, Zoologist, 1882, 



p. 208 ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 437 ; Symonds, op. cit. 1887, p. 330 ; 



Biittik. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1889, p. 69. 

 Campethera fulviscapa, Reichenb. Scans. Picinee, p. 424, pi. dclxxiv. 



figs. 4459-60. 

 Campethera hartlaubii, Reichenb. Scans. Picitia, p. 426 (1854). 

 Dendropicus fulviscapus, Malh. Picidce, i. p. 196, pi. xliii. figs. 1-3 



(1861); Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 298 ; Bolub ^- Pelz. Orn. Sudafr. 



p. 163 (1882). 

 Ipoctonus cardinalis. Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 119 (1863). 

 Ipoctonus hartlaubi, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 115 (1863). 

 Picus hartlaubi, Sunder. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 43, no. 125 (1866) ; 



Finsch 4- Hartl. Vdg. Ostafr. p. 512 (1870) ; Fischer 8f Eeichenotu, 



J. f. O. 1877, p. 207 ; id. op. cit. 1878, p. 254 ; Fischer, torn. at. 



p. 292. 

 Dendrobates cardinalis, Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 368; Salvin, Cat. 



Strickl. Coll. p. 392 (1882) ; Sousa, Jorn. Se. Lisb. 1886, p. 6. 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and rump deep olive barred witli 

 yellow; upper tail-coverts olive-golden, with almost obsolete darker 

 bars and tinged with red ; wing-coverts brown, transversely spotted 

 with yellowish white, the forearm uniform olive ; quills brown, the 

 outer webs minutely spotted with yellow or yellowish white, the 

 inner webs with larger white spots ; shafts golden yellow ; tail 

 brownish black, narrow ly barred or tran.sversely spotted with buffy 

 white, the central pair of feathers washed with olive-golden ; shafts 

 golden yellow : nasal plumes and sinciput umber-brown ; hinder part 

 of crown, also the occiput and nape, scarlet ; hind neck dusky black ; 

 sides of the face and neck, chin, and throat white, the former with 

 a few narrow blackish striations ; malar stripe blackish brown, and 

 bordering the throat ; fore neck white, and all the underparts pale 

 yellow or yellowish white, the whole being striped with black or 

 blackish brown ; under tail-coverts like the underparts, but barred 

 as well as streaked with blackish brown ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries yellowish white, the former striped and barred with blackish 

 brown: "iris red ; bill lead-colour; legs dull green" (T. Ayres). 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0"8, wing 3-75, tail 1"9, tarsus ()-63 ; 

 toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-45, outer posterior 0-o5 ; 

 inner anterior 0'35, inner posterior 0-25. 



Aduhfemale. Differs from the adult male in the absence of red on the 

 head, the crown being dark sepia-brown, the occiput and nape black. 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-73, wing 3-6, tail 1'8, tarsus 0-05. 



