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8. CHRYSOPHLEGMA. 125 



3. Chrysophlegma mentale. 



Picus mentalis, Temm. Fl. Col. 384, S (1826). 



Picus oiilaris, Temm. MS. ; ^J Waff I. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 89 (1827), 



uec J. 

 Picas squamicollis* Less. Traite, i. p. 220 (1831). 

 Gecinus mentalis (pi.), Grat/, Gen. B. ii. p. 4;-ii) (18J6), it iii. App. 



p. 21 (184U) ; id. List Picid. Brit. 3Ius. p. 77 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 192, no. 8686 (1870). 

 Veuilia mentalis, Bp. Co/isp. Gen. Av. i. p. 128 (1850). 

 Brachvlophus mentalis, Strichl. P. Z. 8. 1841, p. 31 ; Bp. Consp. 



Vufucr. Zyr/od. p. 10 (18o4). 

 Veuilia sulHiis, Reichenb. Scans. Pici/iee, p. 3->8, no. 827, pi. dcxxviii. 



figs. 4180, 4181 (1854). 

 Picus mentalis (pt.), Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. o8 (1866). 

 Cliloropicus mentalis (pt.), Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 112, pi. Ixxv. figs. 4, 



5 (1862). 

 Chrysophlegma mentale, Harffitt, Ibis, 1886, p. 267. 



Adult male. Back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and scapulars olive ; 

 ■vring-coverts, outer webs of secondaries and of inner primaries at 

 their base bright indian-rcd, both webs of the quills, except the 

 apical portion of the primaries, spotted with rufous, the innermost 

 of the secondaries olive on their apical half or more ; shafts brown ; 

 tail and the shafts black : nasal plumes duskj" brown ; forehead, 

 crown, and occiput deep olive, some of the occipital feathers entirely 

 or partially rufous ; nuchal crest lemon-yellow ; supercilium black- 

 ish, with minute white sjiots ; face olive, the malar region, chin, 

 and throat black, the exposed portion of the feathers having a 

 white spot at the tip of each web, the lower feathers sometimes 

 having the apical margin white instead of being spotted ; region 

 between the ear-coverts and the occiput, side of the neck, hind 

 and fore neck, and upper part of chest rufous, the entire under- 

 parts and the under tail-coverts olive ; under wing-coverts rufous, 

 barred with dusky olive, the axillaries olive. Total length 11 inches, 

 culmen 1-5, wing 5-6, tail 4-2, tarsus 0-9 ; toes (without claws) — 

 outer anterior 0'8, outer posterior 0"65, inner anterior 0-6, inner 

 [■ posterior 0'35. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the super- 

 cilium, the malar region, and the chin rufous. Total length 11 

 inches, culmen 1"45, wing 5"6, tail 4-2, tarsus 0'95. 



Yoitnr/, sexed female. Has no rufous stripe above the eye; the 

 occipital feathers are more or less rufous and mostly tipped with 

 dull red; malar region rufous, but with dusky transverse markings ; 

 the throat-feathers more dusky and margined on the apical portion 

 with greyish white, very few being spotted. 



Hab. Java. 



a,b. cJ 5 ad. sk. Java. Gould Coll. 



c, d. Skeletons. Java. Purchased. 



* I have recently examined, in the Paris Museum, the specimen which I 

 believe served as the type of this species, and find it to b? tbe Javan C. mentale. 

 and not tbe Mahiccan species as I supposed. The latter I have named 

 C. hiimii. 



