8. CHRTSOPHLEGMA. 121 



f". Smaller: length 105 inches, wing 



5'6 ; feathers of the throat margined 



with white, except at the tip, and 



having a broad black median stripe 



expanding about midway ; malar 



region rufuus (male unknown) .... wraiji $ ad., p. ISO. 

 h" . Throat and fore neck not varied with 

 white. 



g"' . Malar region yellow 7iiysfarale J ad., p. 131. 



h'". Malar region rufous viydacale 5 ad., p. 131. 



1. Chrysophlegma miniatum. 



Picus miniatus, Foist. Ind. Zool. p. 14, pi. iv. (1781); Lath. Syn. i. 



pt. 2, p. /)95 (1782) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 432 (1788) ; Laf/i. Ind. 



Orn. p. 241 (17'J0) ; Pemi. Ind. Zool p. 39, pi. vi. (1790) ; Shmc, 



Gen. Zool. ix. p. 210, pi. xxxv. (1815) ; Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. 



xiii. p. 17G (1821); Lath. Hist. B. iii. p. 361 (1822); Gray 8f 



Hardiv. III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. xxx. tig. 1 (1830-32) ; Less. TraitS, 



i. p. 222 (1831). 

 Picus miniatus (pt.), Wayl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 98 (1827) ; Vig. 



Mem. Raffl. p. U69 (1830) ; Snndev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 59 (186(5). 

 Malacoloplius (Brachylophus) miniatus, Sivaiiis. Classif. B. ii. p. 308 



(1837). 

 Geciniis miniatus (\)t.), Gray, Ge)?. B. ii. p. 439 (1846); id. List 



Field. Brit. Mas. p. 75 (1808) ; id. Hayul-l. B. ii. p. 191, no. 8682 



(1870). 

 Chloropicos miniatus (pt.), Malh. N. Classif., Mem. Acad. Metz, 



1848-49, p. 350. 

 Venilia miniatus (pt.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 128 (1850) ; Hoisf. 



^ Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 664 (1856-58). 

 Brachylophus miniatus, SIrickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 31 ; Bp. (pt.) Cojisp. 



Vohicr. Zyyod. p. 10 (1854). 

 Venilia miniata (pt.), Reichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 358, no. 830, 



pi. dcxxix. tigs. 4184-85 (1854). 

 Chloropicus miniatus (pt.), Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 116, pi. Lsxvi. figs. 1, 



2 (1862). 

 Chrysophlegma miniatum, Hargitt, Ibis, 1886, p. 273. 



Adult male. Upper and middle back, scapulars, wing-coverts, 

 outer webs of secondaries and more or less of the basal portion of 

 the primaries carmine, the back having spots and transverse mark- 

 ings of yellow ; lower back and rump lemon-yellow, with olive bar- 

 like markings and whitish spots, the lower back tinged with red ; 

 upper tail-coverts blacki.sb brown spotted Avitb white; inner webs 

 of quills and outer webs of primaries (except at the base) brown, 

 spotted with buff (except on the apical portion of the inner webs) ; 

 shafts of primaries brown, those of the secondaries black ; tail 

 nearly black, with black shafts ; nasal plumes brown ; forehead, 

 crown, and occipital crest carmine, the bases of the feathers buffy 

 brown ; nuchal crest yellow washed with red ; hind neck barred olive 

 and buff wa,shed with red ; sides of the face and neck brownish buff 

 spotted with pale red, the lower side of the neck transversely varied 

 with dusky brown ; chin and throat buff with a few almost obsolete 



