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GREY-HEADED OLIVE WOODPECKER. 
Dendrobates poicephalus, Swains. 
Olivaceous fulvous, rump crimson ; head and neck entirely 
light grey, but with the crown and nape, in the male, 
crimson. 
The geographic range of this woodpecker is entirely 
restricted to Western Africa, where it fills the place 
of the Dendrobates Capensis, figured hy Le Vaillant 
under the name of Le Pic Olive. The two species, 
in fact, are so much alike, that all writers have 
confounded them; and but for the inspection of 
authentic specimens of the South African species, 
in Dr. BurchelTs collection, we should have run 
into the same error. D. Capensis, however, is at 
once distinguished by having the whole of the neck, 
from the nape and chin, rich olive-yellow, and 
being destitute of all external spots or bands on the 
lesser quills and scapulars. 
From having no marks or spots whatever on the 
under plumage, nor none, save the red crown of 
the male, to break the delicate grey on the head 
and neck, this species is readily distinguished. 
The grey of the head and neck is uniform and 
remarkably light : on the breast it begins to have a 
slight tinge of olive, or rather fulvous, which tint is 
