WHITE-SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 163 
upon each feather : as they approach the throat and 
ears these spots become stripes, and also form mi- 
nute dots round the ears : the concealed parts of 
the quills are blackish, but on the margin of the 
three outermost are fire whitish spots ; a fewer 
number are on the succeeding quills, and they al- 
most disappear on the secondaries : tail short and 
black ; the two outermost feathers have from four 
to five marginal yellowish- white spots: under wing- 
covers whitish with a few greenish spots : bill horn- 
colour : feet green. 
Total length, 6 inches ; bill, from the gape, ^ ; 
wings, 3j% ; tail beyond, { ; tarsus, y 7 3 . 
BLACK-SPECKLED WOODPECKER. 
Dendromus punctatus, Swains. 
Above fulvous-olive, spotted- and obsoletely banded with 
yellowiah-white ; beneath fulvous white, with minute black 
specks. Male with the head above and maxillary stripe 
red. Female with the forepart of the head black, striped 
with white ; shafts of the quills and tail golden. 
Picus punctatus, Cuv. in Mus. Paris .— Picus nubicus, And. 
The most elegant woodpecker we have yet seen from 
the African continent is the one we are about to 
describe. Of its natural history we know nothing, 
but its scientific history is involved in much con- 
