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are almost pure silvery ; on the lower breast the black is somewhat 

 irregularly distributed on a very pale yellowish-green ground ; the 

 abdomen and lower tail-coverts are also pale yellowish-green with 

 rounded spots of black ; the malar stripe, which is well marked, and 

 the occiput are crimson. 



Iris from pale magenta to dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet 

 greenish-grey. 



Length about 9'0; wing 4-70; tail 2*80; culmen 1-1; tarsus 

 0-80. 



The female has the forehead and crown black spotted with 

 whitish, while the occiput remains crimson ; the malar stripe is 

 not marked, being black spotted with white like the throat. 



FIG 43. Campotliera smitJii. 



Distribution. The southern limit of this Woodpecker is the 

 Orange Eiver valley, whence it extends northwards to Damara- 

 land and the Cunene river, and to Mashonaland; north of our 

 limits it has been obtained in Angola and Nyasaland. The Wood- 

 peckers obtained by Exton at Kan ye in Bechuanaland and 

 described by Layard as Dendrobates striatus, judging from a pair 

 preserved in the South African Museum, appear to be referable 

 to C. abingdoni rather than to this species. 



The following are localities : Cape Colony Upington on the 

 Orange river, February, May, July (Bradshaw in S. A. Mus.) ; 

 Transvaal Eustenburg (Ayres in Bt. Mus.) ; Ehodesia Tati river, 

 October (Oates), Umfuli river, August (Ayres) ; German south-west 

 Africa Otjimbinque (Andersson), and Omaruru (Eriksson in S. A. 

 Mus.) in Damaraland, Ondonga, Ovaquenyana, and Elephant Yley 

 in Ovampoland (Andersson in Bt. Mus.) ; Portuguese east Africa 

 Zumbo on the Zambesi (Alexander). 



