of the Ethiopian Region. 459 



Dendromus capricorni, Bp. Consp. Vohicr. Zygod. p. 9 

 (1854). 



Chrysopicus capricorni, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 169 

 (1862). 



Ipagrus capricornis, Cab. & Heine^ Mus. Hein. iv. p. 123 

 (1863). 



Picus capricorni, Siindev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 64. no. 187 

 (1866). 



Dendrohates nigrogularis, Bocage, Jorn, Lisb, iv. 1867, 

 p. 336 ; id. op. cit. v. 1868, p. 45. 



Ipagrus capricorni, Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld, p. 221 

 (1872). 



Campethera bennetti, Bocage, Orn. Ang. p. 80. no. 61 

 (1877). 



Campothera capricorni, Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 394 

 (1882). 



Adult female. Above, including scapulars, dark olive barred 

 with yellow, the feathers having a partially concealed 

 white bar; wing-coverts dark olive, brighter along the fore- 

 arm, the lesser series spotted with white, the median and 

 greater having a crescent-shaped white marking at the tip ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish olive ; edge of 

 wing yellowish white ; quills blackish brown, the outer webs 

 partially or entirely margined with olive, those of the pri- 

 maries having a few indistinct bufly-white spots upon their 

 basal half, the secondaries being spotted along the whole 

 length of the outer webs with buffy white ; inner webs of the 

 primaries margined and spotted upon their basal half with 

 white, those of the secondaries spotted with the same, some 

 of the innermost quills baiTed and tipped with white ; shafts 

 bright golden yellow ; rump and upper tail-coverts pale 

 golden, the latter having a few blackish spots ; tail dark 

 olive-brown, barred with lighter rufous-brown, the webs near 

 the shaft washed with olive, the central pair of feathers 

 almost entirely so; dwarf feather dusky olive, barred with 

 white ; tips of central rectrices black, those of the outer 

 being golden ; shafts golden yellow ; nasal plumes black, 

 slightly varied with yellowish ; feathers of the forehead and 



