45G riciD^. 



Cab. 4- Heine, Mus. Hem. iv. p. 168 (1863) ; Grmj, Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 189, no. 8048 (1870). 

 Chrysocolaptes palalaca, Bp. Cvnsp. Gen. Av. i. p. 121 (1850) ; 



Heic/ienb. Scans. Picina, p. 400, no. 932, pi. dclv. fig. 4360 (1854). 

 Indopicus philippiuarum, Malh. Picidce, ii. p. 85, pi. Ixvi. figs. 3 cJ , 



4 2 (1862). 

 Chi-vsocolaptes lucidus, Tweedd. P. Z. ,S. 1877, pp. 537, 539, 822, 



1878, p. 942 ; Wardl.-Rains. Tweedd. Mem. pp. 314, 410, 461, 462, 



463, 548, 633, 655 (1881) ; Kiitter, J.f. O. 1883, p. 295. 

 Chrysocolaptes niaculiceps, Sharpe, Trans. Linn. <S'oc. 1877, xxx. 



pp. 314, 350, pi. xlvi. fig. 2, $ . 



Adult male. Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts crimson, the tips 

 of the featliers being of this colour, the partially concealed portion 

 being dull golden olive, the rump bright crimson, most of the 

 feathers having concealed white spots, but these showing through 

 the red on the rump ; upper tail-coverts olive, margined with dull red 

 at the tip and having fulvescent white spots and a black shaft-stripe ; 

 outer webs of the primaries olivaceous greyish brown, more or less 

 washed with golden olive and spotted with dull yellowish white, 

 those of the secondaries golden olive washed with dull crimson ; 

 inner webs of the quills brownish black with large marginal spots 

 of white ; shafts brown ; tail brown, the central feathers margined 

 with golden olive at the base, the outer webs of the feathers having 

 oue basal spot of white, the inner webs having two spots, shafts 

 brownish black ; forehead, crown, and occipital crest crimson ; 

 face golden yellow, the orbital region varied with short black 

 stripes ; nape and hind neck golden buff, the feathers margined 

 (except at the tip) with black, the nuchal feathers tipped with 

 crimson ; malar region, side of the neck, and from the chin to the 

 under tail-coverts, both inclusive, buff, paler posteriorly, the malar 

 region tinged with red, margined above and below with black and 

 having a median stripe of the same, the chin and throat also with a 

 median black stripe ; the remaining feathers of the neck, chest, and 

 breast margined with brownish black, slightly olive on the latter 

 parts, and having a squamate appearance, the side of the neck tinged 

 ■with red ; the feathers of the underparts below the breast and also 

 the itnder tail-coverts having a central stripe and bars of black ; under 

 ■wing-coverts blackish olive spotted with golden bufi' and white : " bill 

 black, mandible green-yellow ; feet dull brownish green " (Everett). 

 "Eyes red" (/. Murray). Total length 9-8 inches, culmen 1-6, 

 ■wing 5-1, tail 2-55. tarsus 1'03 ; toes (without claws) — outer 

 anterior 0'8, outer posterior 1'12, inner anterior 0'53, inner pos- 

 terior 0"3o. 



Young. The male differs from the adult of the same sex in having 

 less red on the feathers of the back, which, together with the scapu- 

 lars, are more spotted with white, some of these spots being exposed ; 

 face duller yellow ; chest and upper breast dusky olive, the feathers 

 having close to the tip a large heart-shaped spot of pale golden 

 buff, with a concealed spot of pure white separated from it by a 

 dusky bar. The female has the feathers of the forehead, crown, 

 cciput, and nape oiive-golden, with dusky olive bases, the crown- 



