222 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



Ipagrus Brucei, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 8G96. 

 Campcthera Briicii, Sliarpe's Cat. No. 153. 



This species is not unfrequent in Damara Land. 

 The iris is a pink wine-colour, the bill bluish brown, 

 the legs and toes greyish green. 

 Measurements of a female : — 



in. lin. 



Entire length 8 10 



Length of folded wing 5 5 



„ tarsus 9 



„ middle toe 16 



„ tail 3 



„ biU 1 G 



[Specimens of this Woodpecker were more numerous in Mr. 

 Andersson's collections than those of any other species. It 

 appears to me that the female of this species agrees more ac- 

 curately than any other with that descriljcd by Messrs. Strickland 

 and Sclater {loc. cit.), under the designation of '^ Campethera 

 Abingoni, Smithy $," which name, however, is in reality a 

 synonym of the succeeding species, and therefore not correctly 

 applied to the present bird. 



I endeavoured to refer to Mr. Strickland's original specimen 

 when I visited the Museum of Zoology at Cambridge, in which 

 his collection is now preserved, but I did not succeed in dis- 

 covering it there. — Ed.] 



266. Ipagrus variolosUS (Licht.). Bennett's Woodpecker. 



Chnjsojncus Ahingoni, Malherbe's Monogi'aphie des Picid^es, pi. 05. 



figs. 1 & 2. 

 Picus Bennetti, Sundevall's Consp. Av. Pic. p. 63. 

 Campethera chrysura, Layard's Cat. No. 474. 

 Chrysoptilus Bennetti, Gurney, in Ibis, 18G9, p. 296. 

 Ipagrus variolosa, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 8693. 

 Campethera Bennetti, Sliarpe's Cat. No. 154. 



[Mr. Andersson does not mention this Woodpecker in his 

 notes ; Ijut a specimen, marked as being from the " Lake- 



