of the Ethiopian Region. 471 



fallen under ray notice. One specimen, from the Eio Loge, 

 is in sucli a peculiar plumage that Mr. Sharpe originally- 

 referred it to C. abingoni, which it certainly is not ; in fact 

 the only specimens about which one can feel absolutely cer- 

 tain are those from Damara Land ; but even there the species 

 is so rare that Mr. Andersson was unable to forward many 

 examples to this country. As already stated, the type of 

 C. smithi was described by Malherbe from one of Sir Andrew 

 Smithes specimens in the British Museum. .Later on, how- 

 ever, Prince Bonaparte obtained an example, and lent it to 

 Malherbe, who described it as C. brucei, without apparently 

 recognizing that it was the same as his previously described 

 C. smithi. That these two species are identical has been 

 ably pointed out by Mr, Bowdler Sharpe, in his edition of 

 Layard's ' Birds of South Africa,^ where an excellent account 

 of the birds will be found, to which we may refer our 

 readers. 



So far as is at present known, the headquarters of this 

 species are Damara Land and the Portuguese provinces to the 

 north; subject to the variations above noticed, it may be 

 said to extend into Angola proper, and eastwards into 

 Matabele Land, Dr. Exton having met with it at Kanye and 

 Mr. Frank Oates at Tati. Dr. Exton has recently presented 

 us with two specimens from Rustenberg. 



9. Campothera abingoni. 



Chrysojjtilus abingoni, Smith, Rep. S. Afr. Expcd. App. 

 p. 53 (1830). 



Dendromus chrysurus, Swains. B. W, Afr. ii. p. 158 (1837) ; 

 Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. p. 181 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 264. 



Cam,}:) ether a chrysura, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846) ; 

 Reichenb. Handb. Scans. Picinae, p. 424, pi. dclxxiii. figs. 

 4457, 4458 (1854) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 213 ; Layard, B. 

 S. Afr. p. 238 (1867) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 81 

 (1868) ; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 192. no. 8694 (1870) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Afr. B. p. 17 (1871) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1881, p. 128. 



Dendrobates chrysurus, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 123 (1850); 

 Ilartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 199. 



