186 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
washed with olive and minutely spotted with yellowish white ; quills 
brown, externally golden olive and having golden shafts, all of them 
externally spotted with yellowish white, producing rather a barred 
appearance on the inner secondaries ; upper tail-coverts washed with 
golden yellow and barred across like the rump; tail dark brown, all 
the feathers with bright golden shafts and yellow tips, crossed with 
lighter bars of golden brown, the inner webs notched with whitish 
and the outer webs spotted with the latter colour also, especially the 
small spurious one, which is regularly barred across with whitish; 
crown greyish, the feathers tipped with crimson, the occipital crest 
bright crimson ; feathers round the eye blackish; nasal bristles, lores 
and a broad band below the eye embracing the ear-coverts white, 
the latter minutely spotted or streaked with black, especially near 
the upper margin; a short malar streak of crimson-tipped feathers 
not reaching much beyond the hinder line of the eye; hinder cheeks 
white, minutely spotted with black; throat and chest for the most 
part black, spotted with white, the plumes of the fore-neck with 
margins of yellowish white, more or less encroaching on the black 
centres, and in some instances forming a cross-bar; rest of under 
surface of body yellowish white, the breast distinctly streaked with 
black, the flanks barred with the same; under tail-coverts whitish 
with a few irregular spots or streaks of dull black; under wing- 
coverts yellowish white with very distinct rows of large blackish 
spots, forming bars on the greater series; quills brown below, with 
large yellow notches on the inner web, the shafts golden; “ bill 
bluish brown ; legs and toes greyish green; iris pink wine-colour” 
(Andersson). Total length, 9 inches; culmen, 1°25; wing, 48; 
tail, 3°1; tarsus, 0°9. 
Female.—Similar to the male, but apparently never so black on 
the throat, and having the crown black with tiny round spots of 
white, the occipital crest only crimson. 
Fig. Malherbe, Monogr. Pic. ii. pl. 93. 
166. CAamPETHERA NoTATA. Knysna Woodpecker. 
Campethera nubica, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 238. 
This species is distinguished from the other South African Wood- 
peckers by its thickly spotted under-surface, which is covered with 
large black spots from the chin to the vent. We have received 
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