420 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Philad. 1859, p. 141; Hartl. J. f . O. 1861, p. 263; Gray, 

 List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 68 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 190. 

 no. 8861 (1870) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 486; id. Cat. Afr. B. 

 p. 18 (1871) ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 55. 



Camponomus pyrrhogaster, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Tb. iv. 

 p. 137 (1863). 



Picus pyi'rhogaster, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 45. no. 131 

 (1866); Giebel, Tbes. Orn. iii. p. 175 (1876). 



Adult male. General colour above rich golden olive, tbe 

 tips of the feathers washed with crimson ; wing-coveits less 

 golden, the lesser and median series washed or tipped with 

 dull crimson, and some of the feathers having a heart-shaped 

 spot of buffy white ; the greater coverts washed on the outer 

 webs with dull crimson ; quill blackish brown, the outer 

 webs partially or entirely golden olive, those of the primaries 

 barred with buffy white, the inner webs notched and spotted 

 with pure white ; shafts black ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts crimson ; tail uniform blackish brown, shafts 

 black ; crown and occiput crimson ; forehead umber-brown ; 

 lores, superciliary stripe, and sides of the face and neck yel- 

 lowish white, the latter strea^ced with blackish ; a broad 

 stripe of black from behind the eye running along the upper 

 edge of the ear-coverts and down the side of the neck ; chin, 

 throat, and fore neck buffy white ; a deep black moustachial 

 stripe reaching to the side of the chest ; underparts dingy 

 buffy white streaked and barred with black, darker on tbe 

 breast ; middle of the latter and of the abdomen bright 

 crimson; under tail-coverts olive-brown, the centres of the 

 feathers being whitish and the tips crimson; under wing- 

 coverts yellowish white, barred with black ; axillaries yel- 

 lowish white, slightly tipped with blackish. Total length 

 8*3 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 4*4, tail 2*7, tarsus 0*75; toes 

 (without claws) — outer anterior 0*6, outer posterior 0*67, inner 

 anterior 0'5, inner posterior 0*3. 



Adult female. Differing from the adult male in having the 

 crown and occiput black. Total length 7*5 inches, culmen 

 1*1, wing 4"6, tail 2'9, tarsus 08. 



Young. Forehead and crown crimson; nape black, as are 



