Oates, Sfr. F. 1875, p. 71 ; Godioin- Austen, J. A. S. B. 1876, p. 70 ; 



Iii(/lis, Str. F. ]877, p. 26; Hume ^Davison, op. cit. vi. p. 138 



(1878) ; Ball,_ op. cit. vii. p. 206 (1878) ; Scully, op. cit. 1879, pp. 



249, 865 ; Bingltam, op. cit. 1880, p. 164 ; Oates, op. cit. 1882, 



p. 191 ; Oates, B. Brit. Bunn. ii. p. 45 (188.3) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. 



p. 62 (1888). 

 Clirj'soplilegmachlorolopliuiij, 7?e*cAew6. Scans.Picince, p. 357, no. 825, 



pi. dcxxvii. figs. 4173-74, S 2 ad. (18-54). 

 Chloropicus cblorolophus, Math. Picidce, ii. p. 108, pi. Ixxiv. figs. 1, 



2, 3 (1862). 

 Geciuus chlorolophiu'^, Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mm. p. 74 (1868) ; id, 



Haml-l. B. ii. p. 191, no. 8680 (1870) ; Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1887, 



p. 443 ; Harij. Ibis, 1888, p. 184. 



Adult male. Entire uppei" parts and wing-coverts yellowish olive ; 

 quills brown, the inner webs spotted with white, the outer webs 

 of the primaries at the base and those of the outer secondaries along 

 their whole length red, more or less margined with green ; the inner 

 secondaries entirely green on the outer web and apex of the inner 

 web ; the outer webs of the outer primaries with a few white spots ; 

 shafts brown ; tail and the shafts black; nasal plumes and a line in 

 front of the eye black ; forehead, outer edge of the crown, and the 

 occiput crimson, the top of the head olive ; nuchal crest golden 

 yellow ; sides of the face and neck deep olive, the lores and a stripe 

 running under the ear-coverts, also a slight superciliary stripe, 

 white ; malar stripe crimson barred with dusky olive, the feathers 

 with white bases; from the chin to the breast inclusive deep olive, 

 the bases of the feathers of the chin and throat showing white ; 

 remainder of underparts and the under tail-coverts yellowish white, 

 faintly barred with dusky olive ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 yellowish white barred with olive : " bill greenish yellow horny, 

 culmen and tip dark plumbeous ; irides carmine-red " {Scully). 

 Total length 10 inches, culmen 1-27, wing 5'25, tail 3-75, tarsus 0-9 : 

 toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-73, outer posterior 0-G5, 

 inner anterior 0'53, inner posterior 0'35. 



Youmj male. Resembles the adult male, but is rather duller in 

 colour, the chest and breast being dusky brown with scarcely any 

 green tinge ; the abdomen, flanks, and thighs whiter and with more 

 distinct dusky bars ; the spots on the outer webs of the primaries 

 are, as a rule, larger. 



Adult female. Dificrs from the adult male in the absence of red 

 on the forehead and edge of the crown, and also in wanting the red 

 malar stripe. Total length 10"5 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 5-05, 

 tail 3-55, tarsus 0-9. 



The white spotting on the outer webs of the primaries is incon- 

 stant, occurring or being absent in apparently equally adult birds 

 from the same locality. In Burmese examples the spots are gene- 

 rally wanting. The Perak bird is extremely dark, and but for the 

 distribution of the red on the head resembles G. chlorigaster. 



Hah. Nepal and the South-east Himalayas, into Bengal and 

 Orissa ; eastward to Cachar, Manipur, and Assam ; southward 

 through the Burmese Empire aud the Malayan Peninsula to Perak. 



