454 nciDiE. 



spots, and the hmd neck is black with a median row of white spots ; 

 the light centres to the feathers of the upper breast have a less 

 spotted character ; the dimensions are less than in typical C. <jutta- 

 crisfcttxs, which species it very much resembles except in the colour 

 of the upper parts ; " iris golden white ; bill brownish olive at base, 

 changing into greenish white, then into brownish white at tip; 

 legs and feet greenish slate" (W. V. Legrjc). Total length 10-5 

 inches, culmcn 1-75, wing 5-6, tail 3-2, tarsus 1-1 : toes (without 

 claws)— outer anterior 0-85, outer posterior 0-96, inner anterior 

 0'66, inner posterior 0'46. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the forehead, 

 crown, and occiput intense black, each feather with a rounded spot 

 of white near the tip. Total length 10-8 inches, culmen 1-77, 

 wing 5-83, tail 3-4, tarsus 1-1. 



Young. The male has the whole of the top of the head and the 

 crest blackish brown, the forehead having a few white spots, the 

 feathers of the crown and crest being tipped with dull scarlet. Tbe 

 female has the whole of the top of the head and tbe crest black 

 spotted with white and devoid of red. 



Hah. Confined to Ceylon. 



a. S ad. St. Ceylou. Purchased. 



b. $ ad. sk. Ceylou, Jan. 7, 1873 ( W. V. Hume Coll. 



Legge) . 



c. (I. S ad.; e. $ Ceylon, Jan., July, 18G6 (.S'. Tweeddale Coll. 

 juv. sk. Chapman). 



f. S ad. ; (/, h, i. 2 Ceylon, Jau., March, Oct. W. Vincent Legge, 



ad.etjuv.sk. Esq. [P.]. 



6. Chrysocolaptes hsematribon. 



Picas hffimatribon, Wayl. Syst.Av.VicviS, s^.Qb, $ (1827); Sundev. 



Comp. Av. Picin. p. 80 (1866). 

 Picas spilolophus, Viij. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 98, $; Less. Compl. Buff. 



ix. p. 310, 5 (1837). 

 Picus philippinarum (mom Lath.), Less. Traite, i. p. 222, § (1831). 

 Brachypternus hsemati-ibon, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 31. 

 Chrysocolaptes hasmatribou, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1843, p. 1004; Graij, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 4-36 (1845) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 55 



(1849); Bj). Comp. Gen. Av.\. p. 121 (1850); id. Consp. Volucr. 



Zijgod. p. 10, no. 175 (1854); Eeichenh. Scans. Picitue, p. 400; 



no. 9.30, pi. dclv. iigs. 4357-58, $ $ (1854) ; Jerd. B. Lnd. i. 



p. 283 (1862) ; Cah. 8f Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 169 (1863) ; Gray, 



LJst Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 63 (1868); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 189, 



no. 8646 (1870) ; Wald. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 526 ; Tweedd. op. cit. 



1877, p. 689 ; Wardl.-Rams. Ticeedd. Mem. pp. 299, 314, 410, 515, 



655 (1881). 

 ludopiciis hajmatribon, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 84, pi. Ixvui. figs. 1 S, 



2 6 juv., 3 ? (1862). 



Adult male. Ilesembles C. stricUamli in the upper parts, wings 

 and tail, except that the white spots on the inner webs of the quills 

 are rather smaller in the present species. It differs from C. 



