458 DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND LITTLE KNOWN SPECIES OF 



brownish, lower mandible and tip of upper, nearly white, feet probably light 

 colored. Under wing coverts light yellowish white, with black spots. 



Total length about 7 inches, wing 31, tail 3 inches. 



Hah. — River Muni, Western Africa. One specimen in Acad. Mus. from Mr. 

 DuChaillu's collection. 



This is a very curious little woodpecker, having the general form of and even a 

 larger tail than usual in Gecinus, and in its group is quite remarkable for its small 

 size. The present specimen is very probably a female, and I regret that no other 

 of the species is in the collection of Mr. DuChaillu, from whom it was purchased. 



This bird is named in honor of my friend, Mr. Daniel Giraud Elliot, of New 

 York, one of the most talented and enterprising of the young naturalists of the 

 United States, who, in his "Monograph of the Pittidae," has just completed one of 

 the most important as well as beautiful contributions to ornithology ever made in 

 this country. 



3. Gampethera vestita, Cassin. 



Gamjxthera vestita, Cassin, Proc. Acad., Philada., 1863, p. 197. 



PLATE LI. Fig. 2. 



Allied to G. bracliyrhynclia, (Swains.,) and G. nivosa, (Swains.,) and resembling 

 the former, but larger, with the tail clear black, and the entire upper plumage 

 darker golden green. 



Female ? Head above brownish black, with numerous small spots of pale brown- 

 ish white, entire upper parts of body and wings golden green, quills brownish black, 

 with a few small spots of dull white on their outer webs. Tail black, with the 

 middle feathers slightly edged with green, under surface with a greenish tinge, and 

 with the shafts of the feathers yellow. Throat light reddish brown, with numerous 

 small spots of black, entire under parts of body with transverse narrow bands of 

 black and dull greenish yellow, paler on the abdomen, and with a rufous tinge on 

 the breast. Under wing coverts and inner edges of quills pale buff or fawn color, 

 (without spots,) the latter having some irregular bands of the brownish black of 

 the outer webs. Shafts of quills on their under surface yellow. Bill and feet bluish 

 black. 



Total length about 1\ inches, wing 4, tail 2i. 



Hah. — St. Paul's River, Western Africa. One specimen in the Academy Museum 

 from Dr. Robert MacDowell's collection. 



The description is that very probably of a female specimen, of which I have never 

 seen a male, and which was received at the Academy in a very interesting collec- 

 tion from Dr. MacDowell. in 1841. This bird seems to be most nearlv allied tc 



