180 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Fam. PICIDA. 
162. CaMPETHERA CAPRICORNI. Capricorn Woodpecker. 
As far as is yet known this species is only found in South-Western 
Africa, haying been first obtained by the late Mr. Andersson in 
Damara Land. He procured a male bird during his first trip there, 
and a female was afterwards obtained by him on the Cunene river. 
These are the only specimens of his collecting that we have seen. 
His notes are as follows :—“ I never met with this species in Great 
Namaqua Land ; and in Damara Land proper it is scarce. I do not 
remember to have seen it much south of Omanbondé; but on my 
journey to the Okavango I found it more frequent in the neighbour- 
hood of that river, though even there it was of comparatively rare 
occurrence. It appears to be a migratory bird, as I never saw it 
during the dry season.” Senor Anchieta has also met with the 
species at Capangombe and in Mossamedes. 
The following description is from one of Mr. Andersson’s speci- 
mens : the species may be told ata glance by its yellow rump slightly 
spotted with black. Adult female—Above olive brown, barred 
across with yellow and white, the bars of the latter colour being 
mostly concealed, the shafts white or at least brighter yellow, forming 
a distinct streak in the centre of the yellow bars; hinder neck 
entirely ashy brown; rump and upper tail-coverts bright yellow, 
with spots of brown in duplicate series or a single subterminal 
one ; tail dull olive, blackish at tip with bright yellow shafts, all the 
feathers crossed with bands of dark brown, very indistinct on the 
centre ones, but plainer on the outer feathers, which have about nine 
dark bars, the interspaces fulvous brown shading off into whitish on 
the outer web, the last small feather distinctly barred with white ; 
wings brown, strongly washed with olive-yellow, the least coverts 
minutely, but the median and greater series distinctly barred with 
white, the subterminal bar much plainer; primary-coverts brown 
narrowly edged with olive-yellow; quills brown with golden shafts, 
the primaries externally washed with olive yellow, and indistinctly 
notched with paler yellow on the outer web, these notches lighter on 
the secondaries, the innermost of which are barred across and broadly 
tipped with white; crown black, thickly clouded with round spots of 
