34 FRIENDS OF THE AGRICULTURIST 



The Knysna Woodpecker (Campothera notata) has the 

 top of the head crimson, back olive-green ; below pale 

 yellow thickly spotted with black. 



The Cardinal Woodpecker (Dendropicus cardinalis) is 

 the commonest and most widely distributed of the South 

 African Woodpeckers. Hinder portion of crown crimson ; 

 back olive-brown barred with white ; below greyish, 

 streaked on the breast and barred on the flanks with 

 black. We have collected specimens at Port Alfred, 

 Grahamstown and Uitenhage, in the Cape Colony ; 

 Brandfort and Modder Eiver in the Orange Kiver Colony ; 

 Irene, Modderfontein, near Johannesburg, and the Aapies 

 River (Waterval North) in the Transvaal. Mr. Harry 

 Neethling records it from Parys, Orange Biver Colony. 



It is a tamer bird than most of the other species, and 

 we have frequently watched one, at a distance of only 

 a few yards, creeping up tree trunks with great celerity, 

 industriously searching for insects. 



The Olive Woodpecker (Mesopicus griseocephalus) is 

 fairly common in the Eastern Province of the Cape, its 

 habits not differing materially from those of the preceding 

 species. 



It is of a plain golden-olive above, top of the head, 

 rump and upper tail-coverts red, throat slatey. 



The South African Wryneck (lynx ruficollis) is of a 

 general speckled brown colour ; chin, throat and upper 

 breast chestnut. 



This bird is not common, and was formerly popularly 

 supposed to be a migrant, but we have' procured speci- 

 mens during winter and summer. 



The tail of this bird does not resemble that of the 



