182 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
nating on the rump and upper tail-coverts, some of the bars on the 
latter being tinged with bright yellow; crown of head and nape 
crimson, a broad streak along the sides of the face, drawn from the 
base of the bill below the eye and including the ear-coverts, yellowish 
white, cheeks crimson, forming a broad moustache ; throat yellowish- — | 
white, unspotted; rest of under surface yellowish white, inclining 
to bright yellow on the breast, and to sulphur-yellow on the sides 
of the body and abdomen, all the under surface spotted with black, 
the sub-terminal marks very distinct, most of the plumes with an — 
additional concealed spot of black, except on the flanks, where all 
the feathers have several bars of greyish black; upper wing-coverts | 
dark brown, washed with olive-yellow and having a narrowly indi- | 
cated shaft-line of yellow, all of the feathers having a spot of white ' 
at the tip, the greater series with additional bars of whitish, irre-— 
gular in shape and extending generally a little more than half across * 
the feather; primary coverts uniform dark brown, externally shaded 
with olive; quills dark brown, with bright golden shafts, all the 
primaries externally washed with yellow and barred or notched on 
the outer web with whitish, the secondaries tipped and barred across * 
with white; tail dark brown, strongly shaded with yellow towards 
the tips which are black, the shafts golden, all the feathers barred 
across with obscure yellowish brown, these bars plainer and whiter 
on the small external feather. ‘otal length, 8 inches; culmen, 1:2; 
wings, 4°8; tail, 2°8; tarsus, 0°9. 
Adult female.—Similar to the male, but differing very much in 
facial features, as follows: crown of head black, thickly mottled 
with rounded spots of snow white, with an occipital band of crimson 
feathers; from the base of the bill below the eye runs a line of dark 
brown enclosing the lower ear-coverts ; cheeks greyish white, 
mottled with black bases to the feathers ; the throat chestnut brown, 
Fig. Malherbe, Monogr. Pic. ii. pl. 165, 
164, CAMPETHERA ABINGTONI. Golden-tailed Woodpecker, 
Campethera chrysura, Layard, B.S, Afr. p. 238. 
This species has always been set down as an inhabitant of 
Western Africa, having been originally described by Swainson in 
his little work on the birds of that locality. Malherbe and Sundevall, 
however, who have both monographed the Woodpeckers, confess to 
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