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limited to certain localities. Mr. Andersson writes as follows: “I 
have scarcely ever seen this Woodpecker in Great Namaqua Land, 
but have found it (very sparingly) throughout Damara Land, and as 
far north as the river Okavango, where, and at the Lake N’gami, it 
is more numerous than in Damara Land, though no species of 
Woodpecker can be said to be common in any of the countries of 
South Western Africa.” Mr. Andersson also procured itin Ondonga, 
and Anchieta has forwarded this species from Huilla and the 
Chimba river in Mossamedes. 
Upper parts, dull-green, barred with dirty-yellow ; forehead black, 
each feather tipped with white; top of head crimson in the male 
(black in female) ; back, black; cheek, chin, and throat, white, the 
latter crossed by two black lines, one passing over the ear from the 
corner of the eye, the other extending from the base of the lower 
mandible to the shoulders; under parts greenish-grey, faintly 
barred with dirty-yellow ; shafts of wing and tail feathers, yellow, 
as are also the tips and underside of the latter, and the upper 
coverts. . “ Bill greenish-grey, legs and toes greyish-olive, iris of a 
red-wine colour.” (Andersson.) Length, 8” 6’’’ ; wing, 5”; tail, 
Bid 67! te : 
Fig. Malh. Monogr. Picide. I. pl. 42. 
169. Denpropicus HARTLAUBI. Hartlaub’s Woodpecker. 
This little Woodpecker is very closely allied to D. cardinalis, 
from which it differs in the yellower tint of the under surface, and 
in the very distinct red tinge which pervades the upper tail-coyerts, 
and which, Professor Sundevall says, is found in the young birds as 
wellas the old. He gives its habitat as extending from Port Natal 
into the tropical districts of South Africa. Dr. Kirk says that it 
was frequent in all the woods in the Zambesi and Shiré valley. Mr. 
Andersson procured a specimen in Damara Land, and Professor 
Wahlberg also met with it at Walfish Bay on April 27th, 1854, 
The species differs only from D. cardinalis in the points above 
mentioned, which are not sufficiently strongly marked to render a 
detailed description necessary. According to Mr. Buckley, the bill 
is black, the legs greenish-grey, the iris dark-red. Total length, 
5.8 inches ; culmen, 0.75 ; wing, 3.6; tail, 2.2 ; tarsus, 0.6. 
Fig. Malherbe, Monogr. Pic. I. pl. 44. 
