238 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



473. Campethera Nubica, Bodd ; PL Eni. 667 -, 



Picus Cafer, Lath. ; Picus Punctatus, Cuv., Vol. 2, 

 p. 451 ; Le Pic Tigrt, Le Vail, No. 250 ; Picus 

 Notatus, Ucht., Nat. Lib., Vol. 18, p. 158 ; Tachepetes 

 Cafer, G. R Gray. 



UPPER parts, dull-green, sparsely mottled with, yellow; 

 approaching to yellow on the rump, where it is barred with 

 yellowish- white ; under parts dirty- yellow, profusely spotted 

 with large bean- shaped blotches of the colour of the back ; 

 sides of the head whitish, mottled with dull-black ; moustache 

 and back of head bright crimson ; forehead in the male, dark- 

 brown, each feather tipped with crimson ; in the female, with 

 yellow : she also wants the moustache. Length, 7" ; wing, 

 4" 9'" ; tail, 3" 6'". 



Received from Mr. Henry Bowker, from the Transkei, and from 

 Mr. Arnot at Colesberg. Appears in Chapman's collection in consi- 

 derable number. Le Vaillant cites the George forests and the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Gaintoos River, and Zaffraria, as habitats, and states 

 that it lays four eggs, marked with brown, on a bluish ground. 



474. Campethera Ohrysura. (Swain.) Reich.; 



Dendromus Chrysurus, Swains. B. of W. Af. ; Den- 

 drobates Chrysurus, p. 158, Bonap. ; Picus Smithii, 

 Malh. 



ABOVE, olive-grey, spotted and banded with whitish ; beneath' 

 fulvous-white, striped on the body, and spotted on the throat 

 with black. Male with the upper part of the head, and 

 stripe from the end of gape, crimson. Female, with the front 

 and crown blackish and unspotted ; shafts of tail-feathers 

 golden-yellow. Length, 8" ; wings, 4" 3'" ; tail, 3". 



Hartlaub, in his Birds of Western Africa, gives South Africa as a 

 habitat of this species, on the authority of H. Malherb. It has also 

 been procured by Mr. Ayres at Natal. 



The Sub-Family, COLAPTIN^I, or Ground 

 Woodpeckers, 



have the bill broad at the base, and the sides compressed to 

 the end, with the culmen much curved to the tip, which is 

 acute ; the sides of the upper mandible sloping, and the 

 lateral ridge scarcely visible, or entirely wanting. 



