CAPITONID.B STACTOL^MA 165 



the neighbourhood of Fort Chiquaqua in Mashonaland eighteen 

 miles E.S.E. of Salisbury. It also occurs in Nyasaland. 



Habits. — Mr. Sowerby states that this is a fairly common bird 

 both about kopjes and in the " bush veld." 



454. Stactolsema woodwardi. Woochvard's Green Barbel. 



Stactolsema woodwardi, Shelley, Bull. B. 0. C. v, p. 3 (1895) ; id. Ibis, 

 1896 p. 133 ; id. B. Afr. i, p. 129 (1896) ; Woodward Bros, and 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, pp. 404, 501, pi. 10; Woodward Bros. Natal B. 

 p. 112, plate at frontispiece (1899). 



Description. Adult. — Crown and nape dark olive-brown, rest 

 of the upper surface including the tail olive-green ; wing-quills 

 dusky-brown, all, except the first three, edged with olive-green ; a 

 patch behind the eye extending over the ear-coverts, sulphur-yellow ; 

 below, ashy-olive throughout, slightly more dusky on the chin ; 



Fig. 54. — Stactolccma woodwardi. 



axillaries, under wing-coverts and inner hning of the quills buffy- 

 white. 



Bill, legs and feet dark horn. 



Length about 6-25; wing 3-40; tail 205; culmen 0-70; 

 tarsus 0-90. 



Sexes alike. 



Distribution.— This Barbet has hitherto been obtained only in 

 the XJmgoye forest in Zululand by the Woodwards. 



Habits.— Messrs. Woodward give the following account of 

 the species. "We shot our first specimen in the early part of 

 September, 1895. After this we often heard a peculiar monotonous 

 cry of ' chop chop,' constantly repeated, proceeding from the 



