721- Mr. W. L. ScLitcr on Birds collected 



The soft parts arc ; — Irides hazel ; bill blackish horn 

 coloured, somewhat paler at base of lower mandible ; legs 

 aud toes slate-coloured.] 



437. Campothera abingdoni. 



N. Illovo, Nov. (2) ; Z. Ngoye Hills, Oct. (1) ; P. 

 Coguno, Aug. (3) ; Masambeti, Nov. (1) ; Beira, Nov., 

 Dec, Feb. (3). 



[The Golden-tailed Woodpecker was procured in Nata 

 and Zululand, and in the Inharnbane, Beira, and Gorongoza 

 districts of Portuguese East Africa. It was found especially 

 plentiful in the Inharnbane and Beira districts. It is always 

 in pairs and frequents well-timbered country, being par- 

 ticularly partial to the dead trees left standing in native 

 clearings, where its continued tapping betrays its presence. 

 It has a loud sharp cry, which can be heard at a considerable 

 distance. The flight is straight and swift, though usually 

 only from tree to tree, the bird pitching generally on the 

 trunk and working up to the topmost branches, searching 

 every crevice on the way. 



The soft parts of the adult are: — (^ . Irides reddish brown 

 or purple; bill dark slate-coloured ; legs aud toes grcy-slate- 

 coloured. 



? . Irides brown ; the rest of the soft parts as in the 

 male.] 



438. Campothera smithi. 

 Tv. Klein Letaba, Sept. (1). 



[Only on the occasion when I secured the specimen 

 brought home have I seen this Woodpecker ; a pair were 

 then observed. In cry and habits it resembles C ubinfjdu7n. 



The soft pai'ts are : — Irides reddish brown ; bill blackish 

 slate-coloured ; legs and toes slate-coloured.] 



439. Campothera malherbii fllleborni. 

 Neumann, Journ. f. Orn. 19G0, p. 204; O.-Grant, Ball. 



B.O.C. xxi. 1908, p. 66. 



P. Masambeti, Nov. (2). 



This subspecies, recently described by Neumann from 

 Langenburg on Lake Nyasa, seems to be hardly separable 



