466 Mr. E, Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



examined a sufficient number of specimens of the female to 

 be able to say whether it varies in like manner^ but this is very 

 probable. A young male with the crest crimson^ but only 

 assuming the crimson crown, has the tail and tail-shafts as 

 bright in colour as in the adult stage, but the barring of the 

 central pair of tail-feathers is oblique, fi'om the shaft doivn- 

 wards. 



I have not seen any examples of this Woodpecker from 

 any part of Africa but the west coast. It is not uncommon 

 in collections from Senegambia ; and Verreaux received it 

 from Bissao and Casamanze. In the British Museum there 

 is a specimen from Accra, shot by the late Governor Ussher ; 

 and Capt. Shelley's collection also contains a young bird 

 from the same locality. 



7. Campothera malherbii. 



Chrysopicus malherhei, Cass. Journ. Acad. Philad. 1863, 

 p. 459, pi. li. fig. 3 ; id. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1863, p. 198. 



Picus hnberb'ts, Sundev, Cousp. Av. Picin. p. 68 (1866) ; 

 Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 511 (1870). 



Campethera malherhei, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 83 

 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 193. no. 8702 (1870). 



Dendrobates hartlaubi, v. d. Decken, Reisen, i. p. 60 

 (1869). 



Campothera imberbis, Cab. in v. d. Decken, Reisen, iii. 

 p. 39 (1869). 



Adult female. Entire back, scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts yellowish olive, with longitudinal yellow or yel- 

 lowish-white spots, and between the yellow and partly con- 

 cealed white spots a bar-like one of dusky olive, the inter- 

 scapular feathers having an apical spot, and lower down one 

 upon each web, between these the feather being blackish 

 olive j wing-coverts more golden olive than the back, with 

 longitudinal yellowish spots ; quills blackish brown, the 

 outer webs partially or entirely golden olive, those of the 

 primaries spotted with pale buff, those of the secondaries 

 with faint yellow marginal spots, the inner primaries, also 

 the secondaries, having a huffy white spot at the tip ; inner 



