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264. Ipagrus capricorni, Strickl. Capricorn- Woodpecker. 



Campethera capricorni, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. 



Orn. 1852, p. 155 (male). 



Newton, in Ibis, 1869, pi. 9 (male). 



Dendrobates nigrogularis, Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1867, p. 336 



(female). 



Ipagrus capricorni, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 8700. 

 Campethera capricorni, Sharpe's Cat. No. 149. 



I never met with this species in Great Namaqua Land ; 

 and in Damara Land proper it is scarce. I do not 

 remember to have seen it much south of Omanbonde ; 

 but on my journey to the Okavango I found it more 

 frequent in the neighbourhood of that river, though even 

 there it was of comparatively rare occurrence. It appears 

 to be a migratory bird, as I never saw it during the dry 

 season. 



The iris is claret-coloured, the bill a brown slate-colour, 

 the legs and toes lead-coloured. 



[A specimen obtained by Mr. Andersson at the river Cunene 

 is in the collection of Mr. R. B. Sharpe; this example is a 

 female, which, in this species, resembles the male, with the 

 following exceptions, viz. : only the occiput is scarlet, the re- 

 mainder of the upper part of the head being black, very thickly 

 interspersed with large white spots ; a brownish-black stripe 

 runs from the gape under the eye and ear, down the side of the 

 neck, where it becomes intermingled with white, this stripe is 

 broadest below the ear ; lastly, the space between the rami of 

 the lower mandible is also brownish black, which colour extends 

 from the chin for about an inch down the throat. ED.] 



265. Ipagrus Brucei (Malh.). Bruce's Woodpecker. 



Campethera Abingoni, , Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr, 



Orn. 1852, p. 156. 

 Chrysopicus Brucei, Malherbe's Monographic des Picide'es, pi. 93. 



fig. 1 (male). 



