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head, crown, and occipital crest olive tinged with red, the feathers 

 being tipped with a golden-white spot ; the outer edge of the crown 

 and occiput and the nuchal feathers crimson. There is rather less 

 red on the face and upper part of the side of the neck, and the chin 

 and upper throat are of a paler pinkish buff. 



Young [female}. Resembles the adult male in having the top of the 

 head and the crest entirely red, but the colour is scarlet (not crim- 

 son) and the feathers are extremely soft ; there is less red on the 

 face and upper part of the side of the neck, and only a tinge of this 

 colour on the chin and throat ; the general colour above and on the 

 wings is more olive, and the feathers of the back, the scapulars, 

 and the lesser and median wing-coverts are margined with reddish 

 orange ; the scapulars and the feathers of the back and rump have 

 the partially exposed black bases spotted with white ; on the 

 outer primaries there is a subapical spot of dull white. Described 

 from a specimen sexed J by Mr. John Whitehead. 



JIab. The island of Palawan. 



a. d' imm. sk. Palawan. E. Lempriere, Esq. 



[C.]. 



b. 2 ad. sk. P. Princesa, Palawan. Nov. Tweeddale Coll. 



27, 1877 {A. Everett). 



c. (S ad. sk. P. Princesa, Palawan, Dec. Tweeddale Coll. 



2, 1877 (A. Everett). 



5. Chrysocolaptes stricklandi. 



Picus ceyloDus {tion Forst.), Jerd. III. Ind. Orn. pi. 47. 

 Brachypternus stricklandi, Layard, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, 



xiii. p. 449. 

 ludopicus carlotta, Malh. Rev. de Zool. 1854, p. 379 ; id. Picidce, ii. 



p. 87, pi. Ixvii. figs. 1 S ad., 2 S imm., 3 S juv., 4 2 ad. (1862). 

 Bracliypternus erythronotus (pt.), Reichenb. Scans. Ricince, p. 398, 



sub Lo. 923, pi. dcxxix. tig. 4186, d" (1854). 

 Brachypternus ceylonus, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 298 (1862). 



p. 204; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 15; Holdsw. t. c. p. 123; Legge, 

 op. cit. 1875, pp. 283, 410 ; Hume, Str. F. vii. p. 368 (1878), 1879, 

 p. 87, no. 166 ter; Legge, B. Ceijl. p. 188, S ? tigd. (1880). 



Chrysocolaptes carlotta, Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 31. 



Picus carlotta, Simdev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 80 (1866). 



Brachypternus carlotta. Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 96 (1868) ; 

 id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 196, no. 8748 (1870); Legge, Str. F. 1875, 

 p. 200. 



Adult male. Differs from G. guttacristatus in having the entire back 

 as well as the rump, the scapulars, wing-coverts, and outer webs of 

 the secondary quills deep crimson ; the top of the head and the 

 crest are of a deep crimson ; the head, neck, and underparts present 

 the following differences — instead of the white stripe whicli runs 

 backwards from the supcrcilium to the nape, there is a row of white 



