YUNX PECTORALIS. 191 
171. DenpRoPICUS MENSTRUUS. Red-vented Woodpecker. 
Dendrobates griseocephalus, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 236. 
This is a strictly South African species, and is not uncommon in 
all wooded parts of the colony. Victorin found it at the Knysna 
from May to July, and again in October; and Mr. Andersson also 
procured specimens in the same locality. Mr. Atmore has sent 
examples from Hland’s Post, and Mr. Ayres remarks that in Natal 
it frequents the dense bush, both on the coast and inland, and it 
seems to occur on the Drakenberg mountains for their entire 
extent, as Mr. Barratt shot two individuals on their northern slope, 
near Macamac. Le Vaillant states that it breeds in holes of trees, 
and lays four white eggs. This we can confirm: they are white and 
shining, rather truncated at the obtuse end. Axis, 10”; diam. 7”. 
General colour above, rich olive-yellow ; crown of head, rump, and 
upper tail-coverts, brilliant crimson ; sides of head and upper parts 
cinereous. The female resembles the male in all except the crimson 
crown, which in the former is cinereous; irides reddish. Length, 
7 6"; wing, 4” 6’”; tail, 3’’. 
Fig. Malh. Monogr. Pic, ii. pl. 62. _ 
Fam. YUNGIDZ. 
172. YuNx PECTORALIS. Red-breasted Wry-neck. 
This very distinct species has been sent only from Natal and the 
eastern districts of the colony. Mr. Ayres seems to have found it 
not uncommon in the former country, and a very large series of 
specimens was procured by Mr. Atmore in the neighbourhood of 
Eland’s Post; it has also reached us from Butterworth, Transkei, 
whence a single specimen was sent by Mr. Henry Bowker. It 
occurs about Graham’s Town. 
Above, brown, profusely variegated with fine markings of black, 
and different shades of grey; a line of black feathers extends from 
the crown of the head down the neck, ending between the shoulders ; 
outside webs of the wing-feathers barred with rufous; tail barred 
with black ; centre of chin and throat, deep chestnut; belly and vent 
