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(1854) ; Cah. ^ Heine, Mm. Hein. iv. p. 165 (186.3) ; Gray, List 

 Picid. Brit. Miis. p. 94 (1808) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 148; Gray, 

 Hnnd-l. B. ii. p. 19o, no. 8741 (1870); Sclat. Sf 8alv. Nomencl. 

 Av. Neotr. p. 100 (1873) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 209, 1882, p. 42 ; 

 id. Om. Perou, iii. p. 80 (1886). 

 Picus atricollis, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 76 (186(5). 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, wing-coverts, outer webs of second- 

 aries and partly of the primaries golden olive, all but the latter 

 being narrowly barred with black, the primtirics spotted with 

 black ; the remaining portion of the quills dark brown, on the 

 inner webs grading into greyish or brownish white, the innermost 

 feathers having more or less of the apical portion of the inner webs 

 golden olive and barred with black ; shafts yellow, the basal part 

 washed with brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts dull yellowish 

 white barred with black ; tail blackish brown, the central feathers 

 margined with olive at the base, the central pair transversely spotted 

 with brown on the basal half, the lateral feathers narrowly barred 

 with buft'y white and having golden shafts, the shafts of the re- 

 maining feathers being brown with yellowish bases ; nasal plumes 

 black ; forehead, crown, occiput, nape, and malar stripe crimson * ; 

 face yellowish white; chin, throat, and fore neck uniform black; 

 side of the neck and the entire underparts pale yellow barred with 

 black, the bars on the abdomen almost obsolete ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillarics yellowish white, the edge of the wing transversely 

 spotted with black. Total length 9-8 inches, culmen 1-25, wing 4-7, 

 tail 3-7o, tarsus 0-95 ; toes (without claws) — outer anterior 0-75, 

 outer posterior 0-7o, inner anterior 0-55, inner posterior 0-35. 



Hah. Peru, from Lima northwards. 



a. S imm. sk. Pacasmayo R., Peru (J. Orion). Ralvin-Godman Coll. 



b. (S ad. sk. Lima, Peru {Nation). Sclater Coll. 



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Type. 



Chrysophlegma, Gould, B. Asia, vi. pi. xxxvi. (1849). . C. flavinucha. 

 Chloropicos, Malh. Mem. Acad. Mefz, 1848-49, p. 350. C. flavinucha. 

 Calopicus, MaUi. Introd. Monogr. Picid. p. liii. (1861) . C. flavinucha. 



Range. The Himalayan Provinces ; Assam ; Cachar ; south into 

 Burmah and Cochin China, and through the Malayan Peninsula into 

 the Islands of Sumatra, Bangka, Java, and Borneo. 



* Dr. Taczanowski (Oni. Perou, iii. pp. 86, 87, 1886) describes the adult 

 male as having the crown plumbeous, and the young as having the feathers of 

 this region tipjjed witli red. I certainly think that the adult male has the 

 crown-feathers tipjjed with red ; the young may be similar, but I have not seen 

 such examples as would justify my hazarding an opinion on this latter point. 

 I have never seen a female, neither can I find any description of one, although 

 Dr. Taczanowski gives (in the work above quoted) the measiu'ements of a speci- 

 men of that sex, but without any further information. 



