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Campethera punctuligera punctuligera. 



Picus punctu!ii>eius W.vtri.EK, Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat., XXVI, 

 1818, p. <S9. Tvpe localitv : AtVica. 



This species lias hitherto been called Caiiipet/icra punctaia 

 V^Ai.ENC. Obei^hoi.ser lias shown {Pfoc. Riol. Suc. Wask., 32, 

 igiq, p. 8) that Vai.kncienne's name is untenable « because its 

 basis. the Picus pitnctatus of Vai.enciennes, is invalidated by 

 Picus puHctatus Vieei.ot, now regarded as a svnonym of Thripias 

 iiaiiiaijiius (LiCHTENSTEix)», and he points ont that P. piuictuligcra 

 is the next avaihible nanie. 



The Spotted-breasted Woodpecker was obtained bv Kemp at 

 Agoulerie : the only spécimen in the British Museinn from Southern 

 Xioeria. [nst over the borders in Northern Nigeria it has been 

 obtained at Ilorin, while Boyu Alexander shot it in several loca- 

 lities on the Benne River and near Ibi, and also at Lake Chad. 



Rijiigc. — (\ p. pituctuligeia has a wide range extending from 

 Sénégal to the Shari and Ubanghi Rivers in French Equatorial 

 Africa. We hâve spécimens in the British Muséum from the follo- 

 wing localities: Sénégal, Ganibia, Portuguese Guinea, Gold Coast, 

 Southern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, Lake Chad, N. Belgian Congo 

 and French Equatorial Africa. 



The onlv race appears to be. 



i'ainpot/iera punctuligera halia HeugliN; which is confined to 

 the Bahr-el-Ghazal (Cf. Sclatek and Praed, Ibis, 19 19, p. 629, 

 who point ont that Dendromus hargitti Sharpe from the Niani- 

 Niam is a svnonvm of the above). 



Famii.y INDICATORIDAE. 



Indicator exilis exilis. 



Melignothes exilis Cassin, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1856, p. 157. — 

 Tvpe localitv ; Moonda river, Gaboon. 



A single example of the Least Honey Guide was shot at the Iju 

 water works near Lagos bv Mr. Lowe on the 30th January, 1920. 



