18 Zoological Miscellany. 
considered them all as one. The two species here described appear to 
undergo the same changes of colour : the wing coverts in the young birds 
being yellow spotted, while in the adults they are olive, with black cross 
lines ; but the length of the tarsus and the colouring of the quill appear 
to be permanent in all ages. 
Beautiful Painted Snipe. Ryndicea picta. Primary quills rather 
broad, the outer one graduated, with seven broad yellow bands, the under 
side vermiculated, grey and black, the inner ones obsoletely yellow banded, 
tips and the last band like spots on the outer web, and bands on the inner 
web of the secondaries, white. Length 10^ inches; tarsus 19 J ; middle 
toe 19 ; bill 33| lines. China, India and Africa. Young, wing coverts, 
yellow spotted, Brit. Mus. 
Cape painted Snipe. Rynchcea capensis, Savigny Ois Egypt, t. 14, 
f. 4, young, pi. Enl. t. 881? Primary quills narrow, the outer ones 
with five broad yellow bands, under side grey, vermiculated with black 
and yellow banded; the spots on the outer and the bands on the inner 
web of the secondaries, yellow. China and India. Young, wing coverts 
yellow spotted, Brit. Mus. 
Description of a new species of Trichophorous, from Brazil. 
Mooned Trichophorus. Trichophorus lunatus. Bright olive green ; 
feathers of head, blackish edged; chin, throat and beneath, bright 
straw yellow, with broad black lunules; under wing coverts, pale yellow; 
quills, brown, outer edge greenish, inner yellow, especially near the 
base ; crown and nape with long scattered bristles. Brazils. Forms a section 
of the genus which before was considered as peculiar to the old world. 
Distinguished by the third quill being the longest, by which character it 
forms a passage between the Trichophori and the genus Procnias. Col- 
lection of Mr. Deitrichschen. 
Description of two new species q/ W oodpeckers, discovered hy Capt. 
Sabine in yjfrica. 
Olive Woodpecker. Picus olivaceus. Yellowish olive, darker on the 
sides: top of head, black and pale brown spotted; chin, throat, side of 
face and neck pale brown, black spotted; chest and abdomen, pale 
yellowish green, black banded; quill and tail, brown, outer web of 
outer primaries, white spotted, base of inner webs of quills and secondaries 
whitish black banded ; under wing coverts yellowish white ; scapes of quill 
and tail feather, above brown, beneath whitish; bill, short, conical, 
culmen three keeled. Africa, Capt. Sabine. Length 8 ; wing 4 inches ; 
bill to front 7i, to gape 9^ ; tarsus 6 lines. 
African Woodpecker. Picus Africanus. Golden olive brown ; top 
of head, streak from angle of mouth and from lower edge of lower jaw 
down side of neck, black; chin and throat, side of head and neck, white ; 
crest and rump, scarlet ; chest and beneath, blackish olive, white spotted ; 
