456 Mr. E. Hargitt on Hie IVoodpecker's 



form ; under surface of the tail and of the tail-shafts golden ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries yellowish white, spotted 

 with black ; underside of quill-shafts golden yellow. Total 

 length 7'5 inches, culmen 0-92, wing 42, tail 2*45, tarsus 

 0"8 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0*6, outer posterior 

 0"52j inner anterior 0*42, inner posterior 0"3. 



The description of this species has been taken from a spe- 

 cimen in Capt. Shelley's collection, from Lamo, south of Zan- 

 zibar, procured by Sir John Kirk; and according to Malherbe 

 the bird ranges as far south as the borders of Natal, if his iden- 

 tification of the specimen in the Stockholm Museum be correct. 

 It should be noted, however, that Sundevall identifies C. cail- 

 liaudi of Malherbe as the young of C. ab'mgoni, judging from 

 this very specimen in the Stockholm Museum, which he says 

 he has in his hand as he writes. It would seem, therefore, 

 that Malherbe confounded the two birds ; and I have little 

 doubt in my own mind that Sundevall is right as regards the 

 Natal example. Malherbe's type, in the Nantes Museum, 

 was from an unknown locality ; but the habitat of the species 

 will probably be found to extend from the Zanzibar districts 

 in Eastern Africa as high as the Gazelle river ; for, so far as 

 I can determine from the description given by Heuglin, his 

 Picus balius is identical with C. cailliaudi of Malherbe. 



3. Campothera bennetti. 



Chrysoptilus bennettii, Smith, Rep. S. Afr. Exp., App. p. 53 

 (1836) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1869, p. 296. 



Campethera variolosa, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846, ex 

 Lieht.); Licht. Nomencl. Av. 1854, p. 7Q; Reichenb. Handb. 

 Scans. Piciuse, p. 425, pi. dclxxv. figs. 4464-5 (1854) ; Gray, 

 List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 80 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 192. 

 no. 8693 (1870). 



Campethera ahingtoni, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 21 (1849) ; 

 Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinse, p. 427 (1854). 



Dendrobates variolosus, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 123 

 (1850). 



Dendronms bennettii, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 

 (1854). 



