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white ; wing-coverts and margins of the lesser quills, golden 

 yellow. Length, 4" 6'"; wing, 2" 4'"; tail, 1" 2'". 



Inhabits South Africa. — Dr. Burchell's Coll. Swain. : loc. cit. — Sed 

 non vidi. 



Genus CAPITO, Vieillot. 

 Bill long, broad at the base, with the sides suddenly com- 

 pressed, and the culm en arched towards the tip ; the gonys 

 long and advancing upwards ; the nostrils basal, lateral, and 

 rounded ; the base of the upper mandible furnished with a 

 few short bristles ; wings moderate, and pointed, with the 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth quills equal and longest ; tail long, 

 and rounded ; tarsi as long as, or longer than, the anterior 

 outer toe, and covered with broad scales ; toes unequal, the 

 outer pair the longest and equal, the inner pair short and 

 unequal ; the claws moderate, compressed, and curved. 



469. CapitO Vaillantii; PicusCafer, Gml., Hartl. 

 W. Af., p. 176; Trachyphonus Vaillantii, Ranz. ; 

 Micropogon Sulphitratus, Lafren. ; M. Occipitalis, 

 Rupp, ; Polysticte Quopapa, Smith ; Picus Lathamii, 

 Wahl., Le Vail. Promerops, t. 52 ; Bp. Cons. Av., p. 

 142, Mag. Zoo]. 1836, t. 60. 



Head crested, black ; forehead, cheeks, throat, rump, and 

 belly, yellow ; the latter spotted with red-brown ; the cheeks 

 imbricated, and the rump jist above the tail barred with the 

 same colour ; tail black, barred and tipped with white ; 

 wings and back black, barred with white ; chest with a black 

 band. Length, 8"; tail, 3" 3'". 



Prom Mosilikatzi's country, procured by MM. Verreaux — non vidi. 



The Sub-Family, PICIN^, or Woodpeckers, 



have the bill more or less long, broad at the base, much com- 

 pressed towards the tip, which is truncated ; the sides of the 

 upper mandible sloping, and furnished with a lateral ridge 

 that springs from the middle at the base, gradually bends 

 towards the lateral margin, and then extends above it to the 

 tip; the outer posterior toe generally longer than the outer 

 anterior one. 



Genus DENDROBATES, Swainson. 

 Bill as long as, or shorter than, the head, broad at the base ; 

 the nostrils lateral, basal, and hidden by projecting plumes ; 



