458 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



spotted with black ; from the fore neck to the under tail- 

 coverts inclusive pale yellow, spotted with black ; the chest 

 washed with deep golden ; flanks and thighs barred with 

 black ; under wing-coverts yellowish white and having large 

 spots and bars of black ; axillaries yellowish white, spotted 

 with black; ^' bill black; iris red ; tarsus greyish ^^ {T, E. 

 Buckley). Total length 8*5 inches, culmen 1*15, wing 4*8, 

 tail 2'0, tarsus 0*82; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 

 0*65, outer posterior 0"53, inner anterior 053; inner j)osterior 

 0-27. 



Adult female. Differing from the adult male in having the 

 forehead and crown black, each feather with a white spot at 

 the tip, the occiput only being crimson ; lores, orbital region, 

 and ear-coverts chestnut-brown ; cheeks and sides of the face 

 white, the bases of the feathers black, producing a streaked 

 ajipearance ; chin and throat chestnut-brown ; underparts 

 and under tail-coverts rather less spotted, some of these 

 markings being more of a short streak; ''bill horn-colour; 

 legs lead-colour ; iris dark red " ( T. E. Buckley) . Total 

 length 8'3 inches, culmen 1*05, wing 4*5, tail 2*35, tarsus 

 0-85. 



Bennett's Woodpecker was met with by the late Sir 

 Andrew Smith in the country about Kurrichaine, whence it 

 extends into Natal and the Eastern Transvaal, and through 

 the Makalaka country to the Zambesi and the Lake-regions 

 of Damara Land. I do not think that the species procured 

 by Victorine at the Knysna, and determined by Grill as 

 Picus abingtoni, will really turn out to be the present 

 bird, although it has been referred to it by more than 

 one writer. 



4. Campothera capricorni. 



Campethera capi'icorni, Strickl. & Sclat, Contr. Oru. 1852, 

 p. 155; Jardine, Mem. Strickl. 1858, p. 344; Gray, List 

 Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 81 (1868) ; Newton, Ibis, 1869, p. 323, 

 pi. ix. ; Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 193. no. 8700 (1870) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Afr. B. 1871, p. 17; id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 180 

 (1875). 



