of the Ethiopian Region. 467 



webs of quills with bar-like marginal spots of white^ the 

 secondaries spotted along their whole margin ; shafts golden 

 yellow; tail golden olive, barred with dusky brown, and 

 having bar-like buify white spots on the margins of both 

 webs of the feathers ; central feathers almost uniform golden 

 olive j shafts of rectrices bright golden yellow, and their tips 

 golden ; nasal plumes buffy white, tipped with black ; fore- 

 head and crown black, spotted with white, bases of the fea- 

 thers dark leaden grey ; a broad crimson occipital crest ; 

 lores, also the sides of the face and neck, white, with streak - 

 like spots of black ; chin, throat, and fore neck white, and 

 from the chest to the under tail-coverts pale golden yellow, 

 the whole, from the chin (inclusive) downwards, covered with 

 rounded black spots, very minute on the chin and throat ; 

 under surface of the tail washed with golden ; under wing- 

 coverts pale bulf, sparingly spotted with black ; edge of the 

 wing slightly washed with yellow. Total length 6-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-67, wing 3*65, tail 2*2, tarsus 0-65 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0'5, outer posterior 0*43, inner ante- 

 rior 0*4, inner posterior 0*22. 



Cassin described this Woodpecker from Zanzibar, and 

 Capt. Shelley has lent me one of Sir J. Kirk's specimens from 

 Dar-es-Salaam. I have not adopted SundevalFs name of 

 imberbis for the species, as I do not anticipate any confusion 

 of nomenclature between Campothera malherbii of Africa and 

 the Campophilus malherbii of Gray from South America. 



8. Campothera smithi. 



Picus {Chrysoptilopicus) smithii, Malh. Rev. Zool. 1845, 

 p. 403. 



Dendrobates abingtoni (nee Smith), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. 

 p. 124 (1850) ; Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. no. iv. 1867, p. 336. 



Campethera abingtoni (nee Smith), Strickl. & Sclat. Contr, 

 Orn. 1852, p. 156. 



Dendromus abingtoni (nee Smith), Bp. Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod. p. 9(1854). 



Chrysopicus brucei, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 170, 

 pl.xciii. fig. 1 (1862).- 



