CAPITONID^ STACTOL^MA 165 



the neighbourhood of Port Chiquaqua in Mashonaland eighteen 

 miles E.S.E. of SaHsbury. It also occurs in Nyasaland. 



Habits. — Mr. Sowerby states that this is a fairly common bird 

 both about kopjes and in the " bush veld." 



454. Stactolsema woodward!. Woodward's Green Barhet. 



Stactolsema woodwardi, Shelley, Bull. B. 0. C. v, p. 3 (1895) ; id. Ibis, 

 1896 p. 133 ; id. B. Afr. i, p. 129 (1896) ; Woodivard Bros, and 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, pp. 404, COl, pi. 10 ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. 

 p. 112, plate at frontispiece (1899). 



Description. Adult. — Crown and nape dark olive-brown, rest 

 of the upper surface including the tail olive-green ; wing-quills 

 dusky-brown, all, except the first three, edged with olive-green ; a 

 patch behind the eye extending over the ear-coverts, sulphur-yellow ; 

 below, ashy-olive throughout, slightly more dusky on the chin ; 



Pig. 54. — Stactolcema woodwardi. 



axillaries, under wing-coverts and inner lining of the quills huffy- 

 white. 



Bill, legs and feet dark horn. 



Length about 6-25; wing 3-40; tail 2'05 ; culmen 0-70; 

 tarsus 0'90. 



Sexes alike. 



Distribution.— This Barbet has hitherto been obtained only in 

 the Umgoye forest in Zululand by the Woodwards. 



Habits. — Messrs. Woodward give the following account of 

 the species. "We shot our first specimen in the early part of 

 September, 1895. After this we often heard a peculiar monotonous 

 cry of ' chop chop,' constantly repeated, proceeding from the 



