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4. Chrysophlegma humii. 



Picus gularis (nrm Temm. JliS.), $ Waffl. Syst. Av. Picus, sp. 89 



(1827), nee S- 

 Picus meutalis {non Temm.), Vig. Mem. Raffl. p. 668 (1830). 

 Gecinus meutalis (pt.), Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 439 (1846), iii. App. 



p. 21 (1849) ; id. List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 77 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. 



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

 Gecinus meutalis {non Temm.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 59, 



no. 269 (1849); Wall. Ann. l^- May. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xv. 



p. 96 (1855). • 

 Picus meutalis (pt.), Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 58 (1866). 

 Veuilia meutalis [non Temm.), Reiehenb. Scans. Picinee, p. 358, 



no. 827, pi. dcxxviii. tigs. 4178, 4179 (1854) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, 



Cat. B. Mm. E. 1. Co. p. 665, no. 970 (1856-58) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 



1859, p. 456. 

 Chrysophelgema mentalis (non Temm.), Jerd. B. Tnd. i. p. 291 



(18621 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 292 ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, 



p. 472 ; Blyth ^ Wald. B. Burm. p. 76, no. 115 (1875). 

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



5 (1862). 

 Callolophus mentalis {non Temm.), Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 49 (1874) ; 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 9 ; Hume Sf Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 138 



(1878) ; Hume, op. cit. 1879, pp. 52, 87 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, 



p. 242; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xiv. p. 181 (1879) ; Oates, 



B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 46 (1883) ; Guillemard, P. Z. S. 1885, 



p. 405. 

 Chrysophlegma squamicolle {non Less.), Haryitt, Ibis, 1886, p. 269. 

 Chrysophlegma humii, Hary. Ibis, 1889, p. 231. 



Adult male. Resembles C. mentale, but may be distinguished by 

 its striped instead of spotted chin and throat, the feathers being 

 deep black, margined (except at the tip) with white; the malar 

 region is dusky brown (not black) and somewhat similarly spotted; 

 nearly all the primaries have their outer webs entirely spotted with 

 rufous ; the dimensions are considerably less. Total length 10-7 

 inches, culmen 1*4, wing 5'3, tail 3*7, tarsus 0-9; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-8, outer posterior 0"65, inner anterior 0-55, 

 inner posterior 0*4. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the malar 

 region and the chin rufous. It may be distinguished from the 

 female of C. mentale (apart from its specific characters) by the 

 absence of the rufous stripe from the nostril to the occiput. 

 Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 1'4, wing 5 3, tail 3-7, tarsus 0-95. 



Youn;/. The female resembles the adult of the same sex, but has 

 the striations on the white throat of a pale brownish dusky ; the 

 green portion of the plumage duller, and the rufous portion paler; 

 the ear-coverts pale brown, with the slightest tinge of green. I 

 have not seen a very young male, but an immature bird has the 

 white spotted dusky malar stripe varied with rufous, and it is very 

 probable that the still younger male will be similar to the female. 



Hah. Southern Tenasserim, Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and 

 Borneo. 



