PICID^ CAMPOTHERA 129 



B, Back tranversely barred with yellowish- 

 white ; below, throat and ear-coverts 

 unspotted, chest with rounded spots. 

 a. Bump transversely barred ; lower parts 



conspicuously spotted C. hennetti, p. 133. 



h. Kump not barred, slightly spotted ; 



lower parts almost Immaculate 0. b. capricornis, p. 134. 



436. Campothera notata. Knysna Woodpecker. 



Le Pic tigre, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi., p. 19, pi. 250 (1808). 



Picus notatus, Licht. Verz. Douhl. p. 11 (1820). 



Campothera nubica {nee Gmel.), Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 238 (1867). 



Campothera notata, Sliarpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 186 (1875) ; 

 Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 461 ; id. Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 95 (1890) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. i, p. 131 ; WoodtuardBros. Natal B. p. 103 (1899). 



Description. Adult male. — Forehead and crown dark brown, the 

 feathers tipped with crimson, occiput pure crimson ; back, scapulars 

 and wings olive-green, slightly spotted with dull white, some of the 

 rump feathers tipped with the same colour ; wing- and tail-quills 

 dusky, edged with olive and sparingly spotted and barred with dull 

 white ; tail tip washed with golden-yellow, below, including the sides 

 of the head and neck and under wing-coverts, pale yellow through- 

 out, thickly spotted with black, the spots which are largest on the 

 breast being semi-circular ; a malar streak of crimson on either side 

 from the base of the lower mandible. 



Iris brown ; bill, legs and feet black. 



Length in flesh 8'5 ; wing 4-1 ; tail 2-8 ; tarsus 0-75 ; culmen 

 0-85. 



The female differs from the male in having the forehead and 

 crown black with pale yellow spots at the tips of the feathers ; the 

 malar stripe has no crimson but is black with a few yellow spots, 

 it is also slightly smaller. Wing 3-90. 



Distribution. — The Knysna Woodpecker was first discovered by 

 Levaillant in the Outeniqua forests of George and Knysna ; east- 

 wards of this it extends as far as Natal and northwards to 

 Colesberg. 



The following are localities : Cape Colony — George, Knysna 

 (S. A. Mus.), Grahamstown (Layard), Eland's Post, i.e., Stocken- 

 stroom (Atmore), Colesberg (Arnot), Peddie, Transkei and Port 

 St. Johns (S. A. Mus.) ; Natal — Ifafa and Illovo (Woodward). 



Habits. — But little is known about the habits of this bird, Le- 



9 VOL. III. 



