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472. Dendrobates Fulviscapus. (iiiig.) Swain. ; 



Picus Fulviscapus, 111. ; P. Fuscescens, Vieil. ; Le 

 Petit Pic d Baquettes D'Or, Le Vail., No. 253 ; 

 P. Chrysopterus, Cuv. 



GENERAL colour above, sepia-brown, barred all over with. 

 c l; rty-yellow or white ; forehead brown ; top and back of 

 head crimson ; under parts grey, striped on the breast, and 

 barred on the belly and vent with the colour of the back ; 

 shafts of the wing and tail feathers, and under side of the 

 latter, golden -yellow. Female resembles the male, but has 

 the crimson of head replaced by dark -brown, approaching to 

 black. Length, 6" ; wing, 3" 9"' ; tail, 2" &". 



This little woodpecker lias a wide range over the colony. I have 

 received it from Jlondebosch, Beaufort, Colesberg, and the Knysna. 

 It appears in Chapman's collection, and also in Mr. Andersson's. It 

 affects the dead stumps of euphorbias and aloes ; and reminded me, 

 from this peculiarity, of the Indian P. Maharattensis, which con- 

 stantly keeps to the "Candelabra Euphorbia" of Ceylon. Le Vail- 

 lant states that they lay from five to seven white eggs. 



The Sub-Family, GECININ^E, or Green 

 Woodpeckers, 



have the bill more or less long, strong, and straight, with the 

 base broad, and the sides compressed towards the tip, which 

 is truncated and acute ; the sides sloping, and furnished with 

 a. lateral ridge, which springs from above the nostrils, and 

 runs along near the culmen towards the end of the upper 

 mandible for two-thirds of its length. 



Genus CAMPETHERA, Gray. 



Bill long and strong ; with the base broad, the culmen 

 slightly curved, and the sides compressed towards the tip, 

 which is acute ; the lateral ridge running near the culmen 

 from the base towards the tip, and the gonys moderate, 

 angulous, and ascending; the nostrils basal, lateral, and 

 covered by the projecting plumes ; wings long, with the first 

 quill nearly as long as the second, which is the longest; tail 

 moderate and graduated, with the tips of the feathers pointed 

 and rigid ; tarsi short, and covered in front with broad scales ; 

 toes long, the outer pair unequal, the anterior one the longest ; 

 the claws long, strong, curved, and acute. 



