484 I'icid-t:. 



Hemicercus concretus {7iec Temm.), Bh/th, J. A. S. B. 1845, p. l!)o ; 



id. Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 54 (184i») ; Hor^^f. ^ Moore, Vat. B. 



Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 650 (1S5G-58) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 281 (18112) ; 



Gray, List Ficid. Brit. Mus. p. 70 (1808) ; Salvad. U<-c. Born. 



p. 47 (1874). 

 Heruicercus coucretus (pt.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 129 (1850) ; 



id. Consp. Vobicr. Zijyod. p. 9 (1854) ; Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 190, 



no, 8667 (1870). 

 Hemicercus coccometopus, Reichenb. Scans. Picince, p. 401, pi. dclvi. 



tios. 43(;4-4.3(j5, S 2 aJ. (1854); Sclat. P. Z. S. 186^, p. 211; 



BIyt/i, Ibis, 186(), p. ;J54 (note). 

 Hemicercus sordidus, Blylh, J. A. S. B. 1855, p. 272 ; Cab. Sj- Heine, 



Mus. Hein. iv. p. 177 (1863) ; Gray, List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 70 



(18G8) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 190, no. 8GG(3 (1870) ; Salvad. Ucc. 



Born. p. 46 (1874) ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 291 ; Hume ^ Davison, 



Str. F. 1878, vi. p. 128; Hujne, op. cit. 1879, p. 62; Sharpe, 



Ibis, 1879, p. 240; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Cii). Star. Nat. Genov. xiv. 



p. 181 (1879) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. 338 ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1884, 



p. 247. 

 Micropicus concretus (pt.), Malh. Picidce, i. p. 187, pi. xli. fig. 2, 



d juv. (18G1). 

 Picus sordidus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 10 (1866) ; Giebel, Thes 



Orn. iii. p. 180 (1876). 

 Hemicercus brookeanus, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 44 (1874). 



Adult male, llesembles H. concretus, but differs in having the 

 occipital crest olive slate-grey ; the forehead and crown vermilion- 

 red, the feathers, with the exception of the posterior and elongated 

 ones, more rigid ; the underparts more tinged with olive. Total 

 length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3-35, tail 1, tarsus 0-65 ; toes 

 (without claws) — outer anterior 0'6, outer posterior 0'7, inner 

 anterior 0'4, inner posterior 0'28. 



Adult female. Has the entire top of the head, as well as the 

 crest, slaty grey, the latter slightly olive. It is almost identical 

 with the female of H. concretus, but has the crest perhaps a trifle 

 longer. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-3, tail 1, 

 tarsus 0'6. 



The following are the various plumages possessed by the present 

 species which have come under my notice : — 



1st stage. — Male, nestling. Forehead, crown, and crest rufous 

 buff, the latter with only a trace of flame-red, and varied with 

 dusky, as well as having dusky tips to the feathers, those of the 

 forehead and crown having their tips alone dusky. 



2nd stage. — Forehead and crown rufous buff, the feathers having 

 dusky tips, a few red feathers appearing on the crown ; the crest a 

 mixture of flame-red and rufous buft", the feathers having dusky 

 tips. 



3rd stage. — Forehead and crown as in the latter stage, with 

 numerous red feathers appearing ; crest olive-grey mixed with 

 reddish buff. 



4th stage. — Forehead and crown vermilion-red ; crest olive-grey, 

 barred with dull buff. 



5th stage. — Forehead and crown vermilion-red, the hinder feathers 



