408 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Picus biarmicus, Cuv. in Mus. Paris; Valenc. Diet. Sc. 

 Nat. xl. p. 176 (1826); Wagl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 44- (1827) ; 

 Less. Traite, 1831, p. 220; Riipp. Syst. Uebers. 1845, p. 85. 



Picus diophrys, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 161 (1826). 



Dendromus punctatus, Swains, (ncc Cuv.) Classif. B. ii. 

 p. 307 (1837, ex Wagl.) ; Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 

 (1854). 



Dendrobates namaquus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 437 (1849)) 

 Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 124 (1850); Strickl. & Sclat. Contr. 

 Orn. 1852, p. 155; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 328; Bocage, Jorn. 

 Lisb. iv. 1867, p. 336 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 236 (1867) ; 

 Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. viii. 1870, p. 318 ; Sliarpe, P. Z. S. 

 1871, p. 134; Layard, Ibis, 1871, p. 227; Ayres, torn. cit. 

 p. 261 ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. xvi. (1873) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 368 ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. xxii. 1877, p. 143 ; id. Orn. An- 

 gola, p. 75 (1877) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 392 (1882) . 



Dendropicus mystaceus, Malh. Mem. Acad. Metz, 1849, 

 p. 339. 



Campethera namaqua, Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, 

 p. 422, pi. dclxxii. figs. 4451-4452 (1851). 



Campethera punctata, Eeicheub. Handb. Scans. Picinse, 

 p. 425 (1851, ex VieilL). 



Dendropicus namaquus, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 

 (1854); Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. 1868, p. 69; id. Hand-1. 

 B. ii. p. 190. no. 8664 (1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 18 

 (1871) ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. xvii. 1874, p. 57 ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 188 (1875) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 300; 

 Sharpe, in Oates^s, Matabele Land, App. p. 306 (1881). 



Dendropicus biarmicus, Malh. Mouogr. Picid. i. p. 193, 

 pi. xHi. figs. 4-6(1861). 



Thripias namaquus, Cab, & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 121 

 (1863). 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars and rump, dusky 

 olive, with irregular narrow cross-markings of whitish ; 

 wing-coverts browner than the back, the lesser series spotted 

 with dull white, the remainder having irregular cross-markings 

 of the same ; bastard-wing and primary- coverts brown ; quills 

 dusky brownish, the outer webs partially or entirely dusky 



