476 Mr. E. Hargitt on the Woodpeckers 



Campethera maculosa, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 21 (1849); 

 id. List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 78 (J868); id. Hand-1. B. ii. 

 p. 192.no. 8688 (1870). 



Dendrobates brachyrhynchus, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av, i. p. 123 

 (1850). 



Picus chloronotus, Cuv. in Mus. Paris ; Pucher. Bev. et 

 Mag. Zool. 1852, p. 479. 



Vendromus rufoviridis, Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zygod. p. 9 

 (1854) . 



Dendropicus olivaceus, Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. p. 177 (1857). 



Campothera maculosa, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 133 

 (1863). 



Picus {Campothera) maculosus, Reichenow, J. f. O. 1876, 

 p. 98. 



Adult male. Above rich golden olive, with a few shaft- 

 streaks of yellow, the upper back being spotted with buff or 

 yellow ; scapulars of a more vivid green, with small yellow 

 shaft-streaks ; wing-coverts golden olive, more vivid green 

 along the forearm, the lesser and median series having a 

 few elongated spots or shaft-streaks of buff ; quills brownish 

 black, edged externally with golden olive, the outer webs of 

 the outermost primaries having not more than four spots or 

 patches of white ; all the inner webs with larger spots of the 

 same ; some of the inner secondaries entirely golden olive ; 

 shafts dark brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts golden olive, 

 with narrow yellow shaft-streaks, the half-concealed bases of 

 the rump-feathers barred with dusky black and white ; tail 

 nearly black, the basal portion of the feathers edged with 

 olive ; dwarf feather olive, with a short and narrow yellowish 

 shaft-streak ; shafts of tail black ; forehead, crown, and occi- 

 put scarlet, the bases of the feathers dark leaden grey, banded 

 with black ; hind neck dusky olive, spotted with buff ; lores 

 butfj superciliary stripe, orbital region, and side of the face 

 buffy white, spotted with black ; side of the neck yellower 

 and barred with black ; chin and throat pale buff, with black 

 spots ; from the fore neck to the breast, inclusive, yellower, 

 broadly barred with black ; remainder of the underparts pale 

 sulphur-yellow, spotted, and the thighs barred with black ; 



