472 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Chrysopicus chrysurus, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 153, 

 pi. xciv. figs. 4, 5 (1862). 



Dendromus smithii, Gurney (nee Malh.) , Ibis, 1862, p. 37 ; 

 id. torn eit. p. 157. 



Ipayrus chrysurus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 128 

 (1863). 



Campethera chrysura, var. I'meata, Cass. Proc. Acad. Phi- 

 lad. 1863, p. 327; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 81 (1868). 



Picas chrysurus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 64 (1866). 



Campethera abingtoni, Sharpe, ed. Layard^s B.S. Afr. p. 182 

 (1875) ; id. in Oates's Matabele Land, App. p. 306 (1881). 



Adult male. Above bright yellowish olive, spotted with 

 yellowish white and dusky olive, the light spots being more 

 conspicuous ; wing-coverts more golden olive than the back, 

 and having diamond-shape spots of buflfy white, and upon 

 the margins narrow crescent-shaped markings of the same; 

 quills brownish dusky, with nearly all the outer webs golden 

 olive, notched and narrowly barred with buffy white, the 

 inner webs notched and spotted with pure white, some of the 

 inner feathers having the tips darker and with a subterminal 

 white bar and spot, the shafts being bright yellow ; shafts of 

 all the other quills dirty yellow, inclining to brown ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts barred with olive and yellow or yel- 

 lowisli white ; tail brownish olive, narrowly barred with buffy 

 yellow, tips of the feathers golden; shafts bright golden yel- 

 low ; forehead, crown, and occipital crest scarlet, the bases 

 of the feathers dark leaden grey, with a subterminal blackish 

 bar ; lores sulphur-yellow ; stripe above and below the eye 

 and entire sides of the face and neck white, faintly tinged 

 with yellow and streaked with black ; malar stripe scarlet, 

 the bases of the feathers dark leaden grey ; hind neck olive 

 dusky, spotted with white; chin, throat, and fore neck yel- 

 lowish white, minutely spotted with black; from the chest 

 to the under tail-coverts, inclusive, yellow, the chest and 

 breast broadly streaked with intense black, the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts spotted, and the thighs barred with the 

 same ; under wing-coverts buffy white, washed with sulphur- 

 yellow and spotted with black ; axillaries white. Total length 



