CAMPOTHEKA 129 



B. Back tran versely barred with yellowish - 

 white ; below, throat and ear-coverts 

 unspotted, chest with rounded spots. 

 K. liunip transversely barred ; lower parts 



conspicuously spotted 6'. bennetti, p. 133. 



b. Hump not barred, slightly spotted ; 



lower parts almost immaculate C. b. capricomis, p. 134. 



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436. Gampothera notata. Knysiia Woodpecker. 



Le Pic tigre, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi., p. 19, pi. 250 (1808). 



Picus notatus, Liclit. Vcrz. Doubl. p. 11 (1820). 



Campothera nubica (nee G-mei.'), La yard's B. S. Afr. p. 238 (1867). 



Campothera notata, Sliarpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 186 (1875) ; 

 Harffitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 461 ; id. Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 95 (1890) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. i, p. 131 ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 103 (1899). 



Description. Adult male. Forehead and crown dark brown, the 

 feathers tipped with crimson, occiput pure crimson ; back, scapulars 

 and wings olive-green, slightly spotted with dull white, some of the 

 rump feathers tipped with the same colour; wing- and tail-quills 

 dusky, edged with olive and sparingly spotted and barred with dull 

 white ; tail tip washed with golden-yellow, below, including the sides 

 of the head and neck and under wing-coverts, pale yellow through- 

 out, thickly spotted with black, the spots which are largest on the 

 breast being semi-circular ; a malar streak of crimson on either side 

 from the base of the lower mandible. 



Iris brown ; bill, legs and feet black. 



Length in flesh 8-5 ; wing 4-1 ; tail 2-8 ; tarsus 0*75 ; culmen 

 0-85. 



The female differs from the male in having the forehead and 

 crown black with pale yellow spots at the tips of the feathers ; the 

 malar stripe has no crimson but is black with a few yellow spots, 

 it is also slightly smaller. Wing 3*90. 



Distribution. The Knysna Woodpecker was first discovered by 

 Levaillant in the Outeniqua forests of George and Knysna ; east- 

 wards of this it extends as far as Natal and northwards to 

 Colesberg. 



The following are localities : Cape Colony George, Knysna 

 (S. A. Mus.), Grahamstown (Layard), Eland's Post, i.e., Stocken- 

 stroom (Atmore), Colesberg (Arnot), Peddie, Transkei and Port 

 St. Johns (S. A. Mus.) ; Natal Ifafa and Illovo (Woodward). 



Habits. But little is known about the habits of this bird, Le- 

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