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white, the hinder part of the crown and nape crimson ; a loral streak 
running from the base of nostril to below the eye, and another just 
over the hind part of the eye, white; below the former a brown 
streak is drawn from above the base of the bill to the ear-coverts 
which are also brown, inclining to yellowish white on their hinder 
margin; feathers at base of lower mandible and cheeks yellowish 
white; sides of neck also yellowish white, most of the feathers 
spotted with black; from the hinder ear-coverts down the sides of 
the neck an indication of a blackish streak ; throat, brown; rest of 
under surface of body bright yellow, paling into sulphur yellow on 
the abdomen and thighs, the latter being mottled with brown bases ; 
sides of upper breast spotted or mottled with brown, most of the 
feathers being of this colour and barred across with white or yellow ; 
under wing-coverts yellow, the lower ones spotted with brown; 
quills brown below with yellow shafts and notched with yellow on 
the inner webs; “bill brown slate-colour; legs and toes lead- 
coloured ; iris, claret-coloured” (Andersson). Total length, 8:5 
inches; culmen, 1°1; wing, 4°95; tail, 3°45; tarsus, 0°9. 
The male differs from the female by having the whole of the 
crown crimson as well as a broad moustache of the same colour: 
the brown stripe on the sides of the face and the brown throat are 
absent. 
Fig. Newton, Ibis, 1869, pl. ix. 
163. CamPETHERA BENNETTI. Bennett’s Woodpecker. 
Like the preceding bird, Bennett’s Woodpecker differs much in 
the sexes, the female having a blackish-brown throat, as in C. capri- 
corm. The absence of the conspicuous yellow rump, however, 
distinguishes it from that species, this part of the body being 
banded across with yellow, as in all other South African Oampetheree. 
Sir A. Smith, whose typical specimens are in the British Museum, 
states that it inhabits the country about and beyond Kurrichaine. 
Mr. Ayres obtained a pair near the river Limpopo, and Professor 
Sundevall notes that Wahlberg procured several specimens in the 
Transvaal, in about 24° south lat. Dr. Exton fell in with the species 
near Kanye in the Matabili country. 
Adult male.—Above brown washed with olive-yellow and every- 
where barred across with yellow or white, the white bars predomi- 
