134 PICID.E CAMPOTHERA 



Zoutspansberg (W. Ayres), Rustenburg (Ayres) ; Bechuanaland — 

 Kanye (Exton), Lake Ngami region (Andersson); Ehodesia — Second 

 Makalaka Kraal, west of Bulawayo (Oates), Salislrary district 

 (Marshall). 



Habits. — No observations to speak of have been made on this 

 bird's habits. Mr. W. Ayres states that it is common in Mopani 

 bush, and Mr. Marshall found small coleopterous insects and black 

 ants in the stomach of one examined bv him. 



439«. Campothera bennetti capricornis. 



Gcqxricorii Woodj^ecker. 



Campethera capricornis, Stricliand, Contr. Or«. 1852, p. 155 ; Newton, 



Ibis, 1869, p. 323, pi. 9 ; Sliarpe, eel. LayarcVs B. S. Afr. p. 180 (1875) ; 



Hargitf. Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 104 (1890); Shelleij. B. Afr. i, p. 181 



(1896). 

 Tpagrus capricovni, Giirneij in Aiiderssons B. DamaraJand, p. 221 



(1872). 



Description. Adult. — This sub-species differs from the preceding 

 in having the rump and upper tail-coverts unbarred yellowish- white 

 with a few spots ; the lower surface of the body is much less 

 profusely spotted. 



The female is like that of C. hannetti typica, but the throat and 

 ear-coverts are black not chestnut-brown ; there are hardly any 

 spots on the lower surface of the body, and the rump and upper 

 tail- coverts are not barred. Specimens in the South African Museum 

 from North Damaraland and Ovampoland are somewhat inter- 

 mediate in coloration between the two svib-species ; out of four 

 only one has the rump clearly spotted. 



Distribution. — The Capricorn Woodpecker replaces Bennett's 

 Woodpecker in the northern half of German south-west Africa, 

 extending northwards across the Cunene into Angola. Mr. Andersson 

 believes it to be a migratory bird, as he never saw it during the dry 

 season. 



The following are the recorded localities : Omanbondi in North 

 Damaraland (Andersson), Elephant Vley (Andersson in S. A. 

 Museum), Ochimbora and Omlola (Eriksson in S. A. Museum), 

 all in Ovampoland. 



