478 Mr. E. Hargitt on the IVoodpeckers 



11. Campothera permista. 



Dendromus brachyrhynchus, Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. p. 182 

 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 264. 



Chrysopicus brachyrhynchus,Ma.\h. Moiiogr.Picid. ii. p. 152, 

 pi. xci. figs. 6, 7 (1862). 



Campothera brachyrhyncha, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. 

 p. 132 (1863). 



Picus brachyrhynchus , Sandev. Consp. Av. Picin, p. 62 

 (1866). 



Campethera brachyrhyncha, Gray, List Picid, Brit. Mus. 

 1868, p. 78; id. Hand-1. B. ii. p. 192. no. 8689 (1870). 



Picus {Campothera) permistus, Reiclienow, J. f. O. 1876, 

 p. 97. 



Campethera maculosa, Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, 1876, p. 51. 



Campethera permista, Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, 1876, p. 312 ; Bocage, Orn. Ang. App. p. 536 

 (1881). 



Adult male. Above, including scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts uniform vivid green, with a very faint trace of 

 reddish bars upon the upper back and rump ; wing-coverts 

 uniform vivid green ; quills brown, the outer webs jsartially 

 or entirely yellowish olive, those of the primaries with very 

 faint pale brown marginal markings ; the inner webs spotted 

 with white ; both webs of some of the innermost secondaries 

 yellowish olive ; shafts light rich brown ; tail less vivid green 

 than the back, the four central feathers uniform, with blackish- 

 brown tips, the remainder faintly barred upon the inner or 

 both webs with blackish; dwarf feather with the faintest 

 trace of a darker barring ; shafts dark brown ; forehead, 

 crown, and occipital crest scarlet, the bases of the feathers 

 dark leaden grey, with an intermediate black bar ; hind neck 

 barred with black and buff, the feathers tipped with yellowish 

 olive ; lores buff ; a superciliary stripe and entire sides of the 

 face and neck buffy or brownish white, minutely spotted and 

 barred with black ; from the chin to the chest, inclusive, 

 pale buff, barred with black ; remainder of the underparts, 

 including the under tail-coverts, pale olive-yellow, the former 



