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GREY-HEADED OLIVE WOODPECKER. 



Dendrobates poicephalus> SWAINS. 



Olivaceous fulvous, rump crimson; head and neck entirely 

 light grey, but with the crown and nape, in the male, 

 crimson. 



THE geographic range of this woodpecker is entirely 

 restricted to Western Africa, where it fills the place 

 of the Dendrobates Capensis, figured by Le Yaillant 

 under the name of Le Pic Olive. The two species, 

 in fact, are so much alike, that all writers have 

 confounded them; and hut for the inspection of 

 authentic specimens of the South African species, 

 in Dr. Burchell's collection, we should have run 

 into the same error. D. Capensis, however, is at 

 once distinguished hy having the whole of the neck, 

 from the nape and chin, rich olive-yellow, and 

 being destitute of all external spots or bands on the 

 lesser quills and scapulars. 



From having no marks or spots whatever on the 

 under plumage, nor none, save the red crown of 

 the male, to break the delicate grey on the head 

 and neck, this species is readily distinguished. 

 The grey of the head and neck is uniform and 

 remarkably light : on the breast it begins to have a 

 slight tinge of olive, or rather fiilvous. which tint is 



