PICIDA. 219 



PICIDJE. 



261. Thripias namaqUUS (Licht.). Bearded Woodpecker. 



Le Pic a double moustache, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 251 (male) & 



252 (female). 

 Dendrobates namaquus, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. 



Orn. 1852, p. 155. 

 Dendropicus Uarmicus, Malherbe's Monographic des Picidees, pi. 42. 



figs. 4, 5, & 6. 



Dendrobates namaquus, Layard's Cat. No. 471. 

 Picus namaquus, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, p. 507. 

 Thripias namaquus, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 8664. 

 Dendropicus namaquus, Sharpe's Cat. No. 160. 



I have scarcely ever seen this Woodpecker in Great 

 Namaqua Land, but have found it (very sparingly) 

 throughout Damara Land, and as far north as the river 

 Okavango, where, and at Lake Ngami, it is more 

 numerous than in Damara Land, though no species of 

 Woodpecker can be said to be common in any of the 

 countries the ornithology of which is described in these 

 pages. 



The iris is of a red wine-colour, the bill greenish 

 grey, and the legs and toes greyish olive. 



Measurements of a male : 



in. lin. 



Entire length 95 



Length of folded wing 55 



tarsus 11 



middle toe 16 



tail 31 



biU , 18 



262. Dendropicus Hartlaubii, Malh. Hartlaub's Woodpecker. 



Dendropicus Hartlaubii, Malherbe's Monographic des Picide"es, pi. 44. 



figs. 1 & 2. 

 Picus Hartlaubi, Sundevall's Consp. Av. Pic. p. 43. 



