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PICID^ 



CAMPOTHERA 



are almost pure silvery ; on the lower breast the black is somewhat 

 irregularly distributed on a very pale yellowish-green ground ; the 

 abdomen and lower tail-coverts are also pale yellowish-green with 

 rounded spots of black ; the malar stripe, which is well marked, and 

 the occiput are crimson. 



Iris from pale magenta to dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet 

 greenish-grey. 



Length about 90; wing 4-70; tail 2-80; culmen 1-1; tarsus 

 0-80. 



The female has the forehead and crown black spotted with 

 whitish, while the occiput remains crimson ; the malar stripe is 

 not marked, being black spotted with white like the throat. 



Fig 43. — Campothera smitlii. x \ 



Distribution. — The southern limit of this Woodpecker is the 

 Orange Eiver valley, whence it extends northwards to Damara- 

 land and the Cunene river, and to Mashonaland ; north of our 

 limits it has been obtained in Angola and Nyasaland. The Wood- 

 peckers obtained by Exton at Kanye in Bechuanaland and 

 described by Layard as Dendrohates striatus, judging from a pair 

 preserved in the South African Museum, appear to be referable 

 to C. abingdoni rather than to this species. 



The following are localities : Cape Colony — Upington on the 

 Orange river, February, May, July (Bradshaw in S. A. Mus.) ; 

 Transvaal — Eustenburg (Ayres in Bt. Mus.) ; Ehodesia — Tati river, 

 October (Oates), Umfuli river, August (Ayres) ; German south-west 

 Africa — Otjimbinque (Andersson), and Omaruru (Eriksson in S. A. 

 Mus.) in Damaraland, Ondonga, Ovaquenyana, and Elephant Vley 

 in Ovampoland (Andersson in Bt. Mus.) ; Portuguese east Africa — 

 Zumbo on the Zambesi (Alexander). 



