184 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
with olive, the shafts yellowish brown, whity brown on, the pri- 
maries, all the feathers notched with yellowish white on the outer 
web, and largely indented with white on the inner one; tail dark 
brown, the shafts golden-yellow, paler below, all the tail feathers 
web, these half-bars being about six or seven in number; crown of 
head crimson, more clear on the nape, the frontal and vertical 
plumes showing the greyish bases to the feathers; sides of face 
yellowish white, including the lores, the ear-coverts minutely spotted 
with black, a mark of which appears on the upper edge of the ear- 
coverts behind the eyes; a very small malar stripe of crimson, much 
mottled with black; under surface of body pale sulphur yellow, the ! 
throat whitish, with only a few black specks, which on the chest and 
fore-neck are very broad, somewhat irregular in shape and on many 
feathers appearing like two spots joined together, these streaks 
becoming narrower on the breast, and again slightly dilating into 
spade-shaped spots on the flanks ; the abdomen yellow in the centre, 
the sides of it minutely spotted with black, these spots becoming 
larger on the under tail-coverts ; some of the flank feathers with a ' 
externally notched with pale brown, and with whitish on the inner | 
few indistinct greyish black bars; under wing-coverts yellowish F 
with a very few black spots, more frequent near the edge of the | 
wing, the lower series whitish with narrow dark brown transverse 
bars, the lower surface of the quills dark brown, largely notched 
with pale yellow on the inner webs; “iris light reddish brown; bill 
dark brown, the under mandible with a yellowish tinge; tarsi and 
feet very dull green” (Ayres). Total length, 7-5 inches; culmen, 
1:0; wing, 4:2; tail, 2°95; tarsus, 0°8. 
Adult female-—In general similar to the male, but differing in | 
the coloration of the head, which is black, very minutely spotted | 
with white, the nape with a large crimson crest; no red malar stripe, 
this being replaced by a black one spotted with white. : 
Fig. Malherbe, Monogr. Picide, pl. 94. 1 
165, CAMPETHERA SMITH. Smith’s Woodpecker. 
Ipagrus brucei, Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p, 221. 
Dendrobates striatus, Layard, Ibis, 1871, p. 227. q 
‘The plumages of the present species are very little understood, 
and it will be necessary to procure a very large series of carefully 
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